Every month the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise highlights a particular area of interest surrounding sustainability. This month the Erb Institute focuses on business sustainability; which is central to everything that our institute stands for. The...
"For sustainable enterprise to truly drive on the promise in its name, it has to be about more than just 'going green'; it must also account for economic development that is both socially inclusive and environmentally sound. Joe Arvai will take you on an international...
I left Ann Arbor on May 3, 2015 and within 24 hours found myself in the Kyaka II refugee settlement in Uganda. Kyaka II was established in 1983 as a settlement for Rwandan Tutsi refugees. Kyaka II later received Rwandan Hutu refugees, refugees from Burundi, the DRC...
With the end-of-the year rush, graduation celebrations and goodbyes now behind us, we are setting forth on the exciting but uncertain next phase of our lives. We have been offered an incredible privilege to re-enter the workforce with brand new opportunities;...
So-called “nudge units” are popping up in governments all around the world. The best-known examples include the U.K.’s Behavioural Insights Team, created in 2010, and the White House-based Social and Behavioral Sciences Team, introduced by the Obama administration in...
By Anita Lin After our first year of business school, my three teammates and I set off for a month-long road trip. We started in our backyard city of Detroit and made our way over to the St. Paul, Minn., area, Fargo, N.D., and Minneapolis. We drove the 1100+ miles in...
Last year, the two of us flew to Tianjin, China, for a week-long Erb Cool Project. The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) in China had approached Erb to invite two students to collaborate with the Tianjin Green Supply Chain Network (TGCC) on a website. TGCC is a...
Food hubs are entities that connect farmers and food producers with larger markets for their products. Through funding from Erb Cool Projects, I attended the National Food Hub Conference in Atlanta, which was sponsored by the National Good Food Network. The biannual...
In February, I spent several days on EARTH University’s campus in the Guacimo region of Costa Rica, not far from Limon. I was there to visit family working with the university, and I had heard EARTH was a significant supplier of bananas to Whole Foods Market in the...
Kaiser Permanente: Linking Renewable Energy and Healthcare (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on GlobaLens (Case study #1-430-481) – published 03/2016, 20 pages Developed by: David Carruthers, Yun Liang, Jonathan Phillips, Julio Villasenor (Erb '17) and Angela...