Project: Upcycling by Crowdsourcing: Leveraging Pro-Environmental Behavior as Corporate Strategy Faculty Advisor: Thomas Gladwin, Joseph Trumpey Student Group Members: Taylor Caldron, Grant Hughes, Nicholas Lange, Elizabeth Matzen, Raina Rahbar Abstract: This report...
"Green Growth Innovation: Toward a New Architecture for Developing Countries" Co-authored by Allison Shapiro, Erb '12. The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC, focused on conducting independent research and, based on...
Jennifer Layke, Erb ' 97, presents findings from global study of organizational practices for improving energy efficiency. Watch the video
By: Andrew Hoffman Description: How do you make money when you tell your customers ‘don’t buy our stuff unless you really need it?’” This was the question that Yvon Chouinard, founder of the clothing company Patagonia, asked himself as he considered developing a new...
Smart Appliances Crucial for Smoothing the Energy Demand Curve Smart home appliances built to communicate directly with the Smart Grid would reduce peak electrical demand and the need for utilities to generate power known as “spinning reserves,” writes Erb...
PBS' Need to Know reports from Greenville, Mich., about a town that tried to reinvent itself by bringing in a solar-panel manufacturing company. Watch the video
The most sophisticated management system in the world was developed in a laboratory of iron, oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon surrounded by a thin layer of ozone. This system, what we call the planet’s ecosystems, costlessly manages biological functions that allow us to...
A review of noteworthy renewables activities and research from the Erb Institute. Read the 2 pg. report http://issuu.com/erbinstitute/docs/renewable-energy-research-at-erb_0ddea8e22c6f51?e=3090542/46247182
This post appeared in Next Billion on April 5, 2012 Rye Barcott coined the phrase "talent is universal; opportunity is not" in his 2011 book It Happened on the Way to War, which described his experience living in the Kibera slum of Nairobi prior to beginning his...
By Nadine Gudz and Melissa Vernon This post appeared in GreenBiz on March 23, 2012 Since early 2008, an intentional, global, and mostly internal dialogue has been going on to address the question of how Interface will accelerate its sustainability journey to meet our...