Allie Goldstein and her master's project team attended the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Doha, Qatar. Her return to the States with unusually warm weather and a mind buzzing with reflections made her reconsider whether or not her and her...
By Allie Goldstein This past week, my master’s project team attended the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Doha, Qatar. By most accounts, the week was a huge success. We presented a poster at Forest Day, represented Michigan at our booth, made...
by Allie Goldstein We have arrived in Doha, Qatar—a city rising from the desert and, rather ironically, from oil revenue—for the 18th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP18). While expectations for an international climate change agreement are tempered this...
Business and the Natural Environment Edited by Susse Georg, Andrew Hoffman November 21st 2012 by Routledge – 2,144 pages This Volume is part of the Critical Perspectives on Business and Management, published by Routledge Over the past four decades, the concept of...
Announced by Governor Rick Snyder, research teams kicked off the first phase of their two-year research project last month with support from: the Graham Sustainability Institute, the Erb Institute, the Energy Institute and the Risk Science Center. Industry...
Identity, Sustainability, and Local Setting at U.S. Botanical Gardens New paper published by Erb Faculty Affiliate, Victoria Johnson. Victoria thanks the Erb Institute for the research grant that made her paper possible. "In the last decade, an increasing number of...
Also known as the braintrust of the World Economic Forum, the Global Agenda Council participants here in Dubai are an assemblage of what some would call the world’s brightest, most accomplished, and most intelligent. We have taken the chance to meet and speak with...
$10,000.00 - awarded summer 2012 Michael Moore and Arnab Mitra are investigating the three subscription mechanisms commonly employed in green electricity programs: the voluntary contribution mechanism, the green tariff mechanism, and the all-or-nothing green tariff...
Professor Ravi Anupindi, Ross School, and Jim Frey, Resource Recycling Systems $10,000 - awarded summer 2012 The main focus of this research is to understand different approaches to the design of reverse supply chains for recycling packaging materials. Our context is...
New report presents social science findings on communicating climate change to the public. The report is the result of a very successful January 2012 workshop presented by the Erb Institute in collaboration with the Union of Concerned Scientists. Increasing Public...