Countdown to Redefining the Good Life The Sustainable Brands SB’17 conference is coming to Detroit on May 22, with the theme of “Redefining the Good Life.” Kerry Duggan has served as deputy director for policy to Vice President Joe Biden and as deputy director of the...
SB’17 Detroit’s Youth Impact Project: Thinking, Making, Doing Excitement has been building in and around Detroit for the Sustainable Brands (SB) conference convening later this month. This excitement was evident two nights ago at the Charles H. Wright Museum of...
Erb Faculty Member, Tom Lyon was quoted in this recent radio story on the continued struggle of Flint, MI residents as they manage through the crisis of lead tainted water.
I worked with two organizations at Eastern Market in Detroit last summer: Farm Stand and Grow Eastern Market. My experience gave me insight on the food system and some of the challenges that exist in supplying fresh produce. It also reinforced my interest in working...
Congratulations to Erb student Mikaela Rodkin and her U-M Fresh Fare student team members on winning 2nd place at the SPH Innovation in Action competition! Fresh Fare strives to increase access to healthy food through a transportation collaboration between grocery...
by Jill Carlson, Jenny Cooper and Marie Donahue Cities across America and around the world are feeling the impacts of climate change, and in their long-term planning efforts should be incorporating climate change—both reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and...
U-M Students Mike Bianco and Michelle Fournier and Erb student Jenny Cooper published their research on the interconnected relationship between industrial agriculture and the decline of honey bee colonies: Honey Bee Population Decline in Michigan: Causes,...
Erb student, Kelsea Ballantyne wants to make a difference through companies that "measure up to her moral and ethical standards". Kelsea chose to accept her 2014 summer internship at local Detroit nonprofit Focus: HOPE vs. an offer from the Ford Motor company based on...
Whole Foods: A Luxury Grocer in Detroit (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on GlobaLens (Case study # 1-429-371)– published 02/2014, 16 pages. Developed by: Claire Boland, Heping (Cindy) Fu, Kristine Schantz ('16), and Daniel Voce-Gardner ('14) under the...
Erb students Emily Taylor ('14) and Jenny Cooper ('15) win Dow Distinguished Awards for Interdisciplinary Sustainability. Emily's team proposal, Enabling Energy Efficiency in Rental Properties focuses on finance energy efficiency projects for rental properties....