Congratulations to 2011 Erbers Paul Davis and Hunt Briggs! The ReGenerate Team won the $100,000 Waste Management "Think Green" prize for their patent-pending our Compact Organic Waste System (COWSO) which combines anaerobic digestion and aerobic composting to...
Katie O'Hare, Erb '11 interned with the Innovation Center for US Dairy, where she led a project team to create the first sustainability progress report for the dairy industry. "For centuries, dairy families and businesses have had a proud legacy of providing...
Hunt Briggs and Paul Davis took Grand Prize for their company ReGenerate at the first Accelerate Michigan business competition Friday, December 10. From ACCELERATE MICHIGAN, Dec 13, 2010: The Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition awarded over $1 million in cash...
Ryan Waddington (Erb '99) and partner,Tim Streit, recently launched Huron River Ventures to serve MI clean and high tech industry sectors.
By Nemanja Babic, Amanda Bednarz, Sidney Brown, Clair Leighton, Ashwina Mahanti, Mike Sintetos Abstract: The role of institutions is critical to both climate change adaptation and development. Institutions bring in external resources, utilize location specific...
Jeff LeBrun ('08) and John Rice ('09) wrote the business plan for doctoral candidates Geoff Horst and Robert Levine's technology for "greening" waste water treatment, winning $65,000 in seed money. A third Erb student, Elizabeth Uhlhorn ('10) received second place for...
By Jessica Lin '07 Abstract: The food and beverage sector of the economy has faced increasing pressure from consumers to provide transparency on the sources and operations related to their products. Responsible and ethical procurement is especially challenging for...
The food waste problem Forty percent of the food in the United States is never eaten, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. Furthermore, growing and transporting food requires a substantial amount of resources, and simply throwing organic waste into a...
Waste Expo Conference - New Orleans I had the opportunity, courtesy of the Erb Institute, to attend the Waste Expo Conference in New Orleans recently. In exchange for volunteering, I was allowed free access to the convention, which included thousands of fellow waste...