Results for research on: Global Change

Why Systems Thinking is the Next Step in Sustainability

Why Systems Thinking is the Next Step in Sustainability

Erb Faculty Director, Andy Hoffman unpacts his and John Ehrenfeld's analysis of the fourth wave in the sustainability movement: Systems Thinking. Read more about Why Systems Thinking is the Next Step in Sustainability

What’s in a Word? Politics of “Climate Change”

What’s in a Word? Politics of “Climate Change”

Andy Hoffman, Faculty Member of the Erb Institute and John Flesher, Environmental Reporter from the Associated Press discuss the politics of climate change and how people, communities and companies are approaching the subject and it's significance. Listen to the...

Exploring The University’s Potential for Positive Impact

Exploring The University’s Potential for Positive Impact

By Kelsea Ballantyne When I joined the U of M Presidents Committee for Labor Standards and Human Rights last year, I had no idea how much it would open my mind to the power universities have to transform global supply-chains. Helping to organize the Symposium on...

Welcome to the Sustainability Community: Past, Present and Future

Welcome to the Sustainability Community: Past, Present and Future

Remarks to the Erb Class of 2017 One of the benefits of being a professor is that we forget that we are aging. Each year, we are met by a fresh crop of new students that are always the same age.  So, in effect, we are constantly surrounded by a group of people that...

Why Lighting is Not the Same as Mobile Phones

Why Lighting is Not the Same as Mobile Phones

by Therese Miranda How will it be possible to meet the needs of the 1.4 billion people who lack access to electricity? One of the most common arguments is that developing countries will leap-frog developed countries to implement cutting edge technology just as they...

National Academies on Climate Change Education – Report

National Academies on Climate Change Education – Report

The National Academies Press recently released Climate Change Education: Preparing Future and Current Business Leaders. Ross Associate Dean Valerie Suslow is quoted on climate change in the curriculum in Chapter 3 and Erb Institute Faculty Director, Andy Hoffman is...

Honey Bee Population Decline in Michigan

Honey Bee Population Decline in Michigan

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,...