Project: An Evaluation of Ecolabels, Standards & Certifications in the Chemical Industry Client: a multi-national chemical company Faculty Advisor: Rick Bunch Student Group Members: Sarah Barjum, Kara Davidson, Deb Heed, Ning Wu Abstract: In recent years,...
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...
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...
ClimateWire references UCS-Erb report on climate change communication. View the ClimateWire article | View the report (pdf)
People complain that my generation’s “addiction” to technology will lead us down the path of unsustainability. I think they are wrong. While it is true that my generation, Gen Y (those born after 1980) is the quickest demographic to adopt new computing trends, the...
A recent report by the Metropolitan Infrastructure Initiative at the Brookings Institute, called Transit Access and Zero Vehicle Households, revealed several striking statistics about Detroit transit. Of the 136,000 households without cars in the Detroit metro area,...
Corporate sustainability strategies are common practice in today’s corporate America, going far beyond a company’s environmental footprint, to becoming a central part of company strategy. Sustainability challenges companies to think about themselves as part of an...
As Ford Motor Company's manager of social sustainability, David Berdish is at the vanguard of executive chairman Bill Ford's goal of transforming Ford "from a motor company to a mobility company." Read more: The Blue Oval Goes Green
If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone. --John C. Maxwell One of my housemates has healthy starts of spinach, Tatsoi, Swiss chard, and kale on our second floor balcony. The small garden beds in the yard below are being prepared with last...