Conscientious consumers are repeatedly encouraged to eat local, buy organic, seek out fair trade labels and ask about the traceability of a product’s supply chain. As sales of organic and ethically labeled products rise, companies both large and small have focused...
Josh is the Founding Partner of Clearstone Enterprises, a venture investment, design, and innovation platform that targets and builds businesses that profit from “giving a voice to the voiceless”. Josh was up until recently a member of Korn Ferry’s Asset Management...
For the second year in a row, a team from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business has won Accenture’s Innovation Challenge, which brings in MBA students to tackle a challenge that one of its nonprofit partners faces. This year, the partner was USA for...
Allison is the Erb Institute’s Writer. Her career as a writer and editor spans various publications and nonprofit organizations, on topics ranging from the environment to education to the law. As a freelance writer, her work has been published by the Sierra Club, the...
In America, the agricultural sector is responsible for barely one percent of total energy consumption. But it's a different picture in India, where a whopping 18 percent of the nation's electricity goes to power agricultural water pumps. Problems in Indian...
Josh is a Practice Leader on WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff's sustainability and energy team and leads the company's sustainability strategy offering. His clients span sectors including financial services, IT, telecom, pharma, food & beverage, and retail &...
Gilbert (Gib) Hedstrom has spent his career working at the nexus of corporate governance, business strategy and sustainability. For over 25 years, he has advised C-suite executives, CEOs, and board members about how to handle environmental and business challenges –...
Wes is currently the Director of Strategic Finance, at Bird. Wes is interested in how sustainable business practices and innovations in technology can be used to solve the world’s energy challenges. He is particularly interested in developing solutions that will allow...
Nina has spent over fifteen years in the field of emerging market sustainable enterprise development, primarily focused on connecting low-income producers and consumers to global markets, products and services. In her current role, she is part of SC Johnson's Base of...
Aparna aims to finance the start-up, expansion, and growth of sustainable enterprises in the US and abroad. At Erb, she has pursued knowledge and skills in clean tech (solar PV, energy efficiency) and carbon finance, putting them to use in clean tech investment...