Working at the Forefront of Climate-Change Action and Opportunity / Report No. 131, 4 pages Energized by overwhelming scientific evidence and agreement that human activity is causing serious changes in the Earth’s climate, the Erb Institute has joined environmental,...
Blog cross posted on GreenBiz.com The Safe Chemicals Act, sponsored by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), champions the protection of consumers from the hazards of household products. While many public interest groups have hailed this legislation as an unambiguous win for...
By Aaron Desatnik A volcano erupts in Iceland, halting air travel over Europe for two weeks. The H1N1 pandemic sweeps across Asia. Hurricane Sandy brings business in the New York Metro area to a grinding halt. These events are unpredictable, but they can be planned...
Professor Ravi Anupindi, Ross School, and Jim Frey, Resource Recycling Systems $10,000 - awarded summer 2012 The main focus of this research is to understand different approaches to the design of reverse supply chains for recycling packaging materials. Our context is...
Berry Kennedy ('14) reflects on her summer internship in the Walmart Sustainability Department. "As a summer MBA intern in the Walmart Sustainability Department, I had an amazing and rare opportunity. I was able to put into practice the sustainability rhetoric that’s...
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,...
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...
PBS' Need to Know reports from Greenville, Mich., about a town that tried to reinvent itself by bringing in a solar-panel manufacturing company. Watch the video
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
Ann Arbor‐based startup, founded by four University of Michigan students, is in the midst of raising a seed round of up to $2 million to move it from proof‐of‐concept stage to commercialization. View the article