Each week, the Erb Institute shares a collection of news and updates regarding business sustainability. This month, the Erb Institute blog and social media is focusing on consumer goods, leading up to our C-Suite speaker event with Campbell's CSO, Dave Stangis, at the...
Each week, the Erb Institute shares a collection of news and updates regarding business sustainability. This month, the Erb Institute blog and social media is focusing on consumer goods, leading up to our C-Suite speaker event with Campbell's CSO, Dave Stangis, at the...
Triple Bottom Line Investing’s European flagship conference brings together practicing investors and asset managers who control a significant amount of the world’s capital, including representatives from Brazil, Japan, the U.S. and Europe. The assembled functional...
Erb Research Manager Melissa Zaksek and I were in Delhi earlier this month for the India Centre for Responsible Business’s fourth annual International Sustainability Standards Conference. International standards have traditionally been developed by western brands,...
In the US, and throughout the globe for that matter, the private sector is increasingly being looked to as a source of leadership for combating climate change. And many companies are stepping up, especially with the lack of leadership coming from Washington. Consider...
The current scenario of air pollution culminating in an environmental catastrophe seen across the capital city and state of Delhi, its neighbouring areas and across most urban spaces in India raises some key questions on the government’s approach to ensuring citizens’...
Erb student, Eric Krostich, joined the It's Hot in Here podcast to talk about his summer internship experience with the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), a Colorado-based non-profit think-and-do-tank that focuses on the efficient and restorative use of resources. On the...
Current efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change might not succeed in time to avoid dangerous consequences. One option to fight climate change—often discussed within scientific circles, but still relatively unknown among the general public—is solar radiation...
Pruitt’s faulty logic—or lack of it entirely—hasn’t gone unnoticed. Former Science Advisory Board member Joe Arvai, whose six-year term expired in late September, was bewildered. “Not only is Mr. Pruitt a hypocrite, he’s a coward,” said Arvai, who is currently the...
“He is recomposing what science advice at the EPA looks like,” Joe Árvai, director of the Erb Institute at the University of Michigan and former Science Advisory Board member, told ThinkProgress. “When he asks science advisers to weigh in on matters that will be of...