Ricky joined the Erb Institute to pursue a career that improves the sustainability of foods we eat every day. Before entering the University of Michigan, he worked at Amazon for 3.5 years in Seattle. There, he managed cross-functional relationships with packaged food...
Rob Whittier manages Visa’s sustainability and corporate responsibility programs and partnerships, employee programs, formal reporting and communications, with a focus on environmental sustainability, renewable energy, greenhouse gas reduction, green building and data...
If there’s one group that’s basking in the long shadow cast by Donald Trump’s ill-fated decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, it’s business. In story after story, reporters and pundits are hailing businesses – large and small – as the...
Elizabeth Kolburt, Erb Institute Purpose to Impact speaker 2017, took some time to speak with staff writer, Allison Burtka on our changing climate. We are killing our planet. Of course, it’s not quite that simple, but, as acclaimed writer Elizabeth Kolbert explains in...
Kevin is a member of the XPRIZE Climate & Energy Brain Trust working to shape the design of what could become the next revolutionary moonshot prize competition in the Grand Challenge Domain of Climate & Energy. From 2015 to 2024, Kevin was Senior Vice...
Report: Breaking Ground: Method and the Brownfield vs. Greenfield Debate (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on WDI Publishing (Case study #1-430-482) – published 04/2017, 18 pages Developed by: Natalie Payer, Dayna Sason, Mark Green, and Edouard Bapst....
Josh is the Founding Partner of Clearstone Enterprises, a venture investment, design, and innovation platform that targets and builds businesses that profit from “giving a voice to the voiceless”. Josh was up until recently a member of Korn Ferry’s Asset Management...
Jeff is currently Director of Project Origination at Clean Focus Renewables, a financier and developer of large-scale solar photovoltaic systems. Prior to joining Clean Focus, Jeff was Senior Director of Sales at SunShare where he led customer acquisition activities...
Allison is the Erb Institute’s Writer. Her career as a writer and editor spans various publications and nonprofit organizations, on topics ranging from the environment to education to the law. As a freelance writer, her work has been published by the Sierra Club, the...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce, is focused on research of the oceans and the atmosphere. It provides decision-makers with information they need—in the form of weather forecasts,...