Erb Faculty Affiliate Nigel Melville and Erb 2011 Alum, Ryan Whisnant, co-publish report on an important emerging class of enterprise software designed for Environmental Resource Planning (ERP). Environmental Sustainability 2.0: Empirical Analysis of Environmental ERP...
Erb Institute Executive in Residence, Tom Catania, talks energy infrastructure, policy, and consumer incentives in the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Journal article....
Erb Faculty Members, Professors Hoffman and Lyon are heavily cited in a Wharton report examining how and why corporations, nonprofits, and academics must inform, educate, and engage politicians and policymakers on sound and strategic sustainability efforts....
Working in collaboration with LimnoTech and Professor Peter Adriaens, Erb Student Viktor Passinsky ('13) published Mitigating Corporate Water Risk: Financial Market Tools and Supply Management Strategies in the October 2012 issue of Water Alternatives....
Phel Meyer ('13) analyzes the issue of food waste in the United States with author of American Wasteland, Jonathan Bloom. "Given last summer’s heat wave and the food shortages and price increases we can expect as a consequence, I would think that food waste reduction...
Berry Kennedy ('14) reflects on her summer internship in the Walmart Sustainability Department. "As a summer MBA intern in the Walmart Sustainability Department, I had an amazing and rare opportunity. I was able to put into practice the sustainability rhetoric that’s...
The Erb Foundation Grant continually impacts a variety of areas within sustainability and the University of Michigan. "The $4.5 million grant from the Erb Family Foundation to help establish the University of Michigan Water Center continues the Erb family's long...
Presentation sponsored by the Environmental Law and Policy Program Clean tech is tough right now. Vestas pulled out of the U.S. A123 went bankrupt. Solyndra is a bust. Carbon legislation is the new living dead. Low natural gas prices have killed the financials of...
Bill McKibben is America's preeminent environmentalist, author, and journalist. In 2010, the Boston Globe referred to McKibben as "probably the nation's leading environmentalist" and Time magazine described him as "the world's best green journalist." America's...
Erb Director, Andy Hoffman, and Erb Executive in Residence, Tom Catania show why a social consensus on climate change may be unnecessary to mitigate it. "It's time to call a truce in this rhetorical war, and instead look to the sidelines, where less-political business...