I had the opportunity to spend three months in Brazil in the summer of 2015 as part of an Erb internship with Imaflora, a Brazilian organization that works with agricultural and forestry certification. Working with students from the University of Michigan (SNRE),...
In April, I traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend “How Business Can Tackle Deforestation,” a conference hosted by Innovation Forum, a London-based organization that convenes organizations around sustainability trends and opportunities for business. The two-day event...
Sustainability Cases Attract Global Audience Students at U-M and other top universities, including Northwestern University, University of Virginia and University of California, Berkeley, are benefiting from a substantial and growing catalog of Erb branded case studies...
By: Andrew J. Hoffman, in Corporate Stewardship: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness, (Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing): 228-248 (with John Ehrenfeld) (2015) ABSTRACT: Sustainability has become mainstream in both management practice and management research....
A country of vast natural wealth, a roller-coaster economy and one of the most romanticized cultures on Earth, Brazil has assumed a significant role in the complex arena of global finance and politics. It is home to over 203 million human residents, but they are...
U-M Students Mike Bianco and Michelle Fournier and Erb student Jenny Cooper published their research on the interconnected relationship between industrial agriculture and the decline of honey bee colonies: Honey Bee Population Decline in Michigan: Causes,...
Innovations in Biodiversity Management Global biodiversity loss and ecosystem services The science of biodiversity and ecosystem services Biodiversity management strategies Open considerations about how companies can make the business case for biodiversity management,...
Erb Faculty Director, Joe Arvai published in Society & Natural Resources (An International Journal) The United Nations (UN) Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) program offers incentives for developing countries to reduce CO2...
Watch this beautiful video on water stewardship and the paper industry in the Great Lakes region. Erb alumna and EAB member, Kathryn Buckner is featured near 3:19 in the video. This video was produced by: Detroit Public Television, the Council of Great Lakes...
Erb Faculty Director, Joe Arvai published in Nature (International Weekly Journal of Science) Consider the global impacts of oil pipelines. The debate over the development of the tar sands in Alberta, Canada, has long been a flashpoint for tensions in and between...