Auction Summary At the second auction, held on February 19, 2013, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) sold all of the Vintage 2013 (V13) 12.9 million allowances available for 2013 at $13.62, 27% above the $10.71 floor price. There were 91 qualified bidders,...
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Boston mayor calls on city to prepare for climate change
Brian Swett, Chief of Environment and Energy for the City of Boston reporting directly to the mayor and an Erb 08 alum, leads new mayoral initiatives to mitigate climate change: Boston mayor calls on city to prepare for climate change.
Motivating Sustainable Consumer Choices: The Role of Nudges, Values, and Labels
Motivating Sustainable Consumer Choices: The Role of Nudges, Values, and Labels - Erb Faculty Director, Joe Arvai published in Environment and Behavior Small, everyday changes in people’s behavior can have significant positive environmental impacts. Research...
MI / U-M fracking research partnership to include Erb Institute
Announced by Governor Rick Snyder, research teams kicked off the first phase of their two-year research project last month with support from: the Graham Sustainability Institute, the Erb Institute, the Energy Institute and the Risk Science Center. Industry...
Identity and Sustainability at U.S. Botanical Gardens
Identity, Sustainability, and Local Setting at U.S. Botanical Gardens New paper published by Erb Faculty Affiliate, Victoria Johnson. Victoria thanks the Erb Institute for the research grant that made her paper possible. "In the last decade, an increasing number of...
Report of the Workshop on Climate Communication – January 2012
New report presents social science findings on communicating climate change to the public. The report is the result of a very successful January 2012 workshop presented by the Erb Institute in collaboration with the Union of Concerned Scientists. Increasing Public...
Food Waste in the U.S.
Phel Meyer ('13) analyzes the issue of food waste in the United States with author of American Wasteland, Jonathan Bloom. "Given last summer’s heat wave and the food shortages and price increases we can expect as a consequence, I would think that food waste reduction...
Food Waste in the U.S. : A Conversation with Jonathan Bloom
This blog is cross-posted on BSR.com. I recently read American Wasteland, the 2010 book by Jonathan Bloom that analyzes the issue of food waste in the United States. Bloom’s main thesis is that we can significantly reduce the amount of food waste we generate by...
4 sustainability lessons from Walmart
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...
Erb – WEC Parnership to Fund 8 Graduate Fellows
IBM Funded Erb and World Environment Center Partnership to Fund 8 Erb-WEC Fellows The partnership strengthens the University of Michigan’s leadership role in the advancement of sustainability concepts and practices for future graduates. WEC will provide students...