Erb Alum, Doug Glancy ('07) explores the strategic marriage of behavioral economics and technology as a means of increasing public motivation for action on climate change: What Smoking and Marriage Equality Can Teach Activists About Efforts to Catalyze Climate Action...
Andy Hoffman tackles business innovation, the role of global markets and the carbon tax on Australian television and radio. Check out the interviews: Radio Interview: Very fast trains, solar planes and what Business can do for climate action
The Institute is proud to count several AmeriCorps alumni among our graduates. AmeriCorps is a national network of programs that engages more than 70,000 Americans each year in intensive service to meet critical needs in communities throughout the nation. March 10-18...
Aaron Desatnik, Erb '15 examines the work of recent speaker, Sheryl Connelly and the various tasks futurists' must do to stay ahead of market trends. "At Ford, Sheryl’s “in charge of helping the company stay two to 20 years ahead of the trends outside the industry...
I’m a self-professed “not-a-car-guy” and rather proud of it. I have no feigned romanticism for those loud, obnoxious engines in muscles cars, and as someone who barely knows how to check his oil I’m without the fond memories of taking apart a transmission or...
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,...
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
Four substantial, student-led sustainability projects are gaining momentum on campus, thanks to financial support from the new Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund. One of them is the Reusable Containers Program, headed by Erb students Phel meyer, Rich Grousset and...
Project: Ancillary Service Revenue Opportunities from Electric Vehicles via Demand Response Client: Better Place Faculty Advisor: John DeCicco Student Group Members: Hanns Anders, MBA/MS Sustainable Systems Kripal Kavi, MBA/MS Environmental Policy and Planning Mark...
General Motors announced a partnership with The Gas Company to provide fuel cell stations to support the introduction of the cars. Read the story