Rapacious consumption of single-use plastics has led to their widespread accumulation in the environment. Every minute, the equivalent of a truckload of plastic enters the ocean; by 2050, the ocean will contain more plastics than fish by weight. In our economy’s...
A team from the Ross School of Business immersed themselves in the salmon farming industry in Magallanes, in the Patagonia region of Chile. As part of their multidisciplinary action project (MAP), they worked to identify the qualities that make salmon from this region...
What does an apparel company do when it’s already a leader in environmental manufacturing and has summited the peak of sustainable clothing? If it’s Patagonia, it decides to not only become carbon neutral by 2025 but also build a plan that inspires change across the...
Thursday, June 7th Decisions, decisions In the session “The Conscious Consumer vs. the Consumer Unconscious: Insights from Decision Neuroscience,” the panelists explored the dissociations between consumers’ stated preferences for “green” products and their...
Ethical apparel brands committed to human rights This month on social media and the Erb Perspective Blog, the Erb Institute is focusing on human rights and human development. Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of...
How can a company like Patagonia most effectively work to change the global agricultural system, to sequester more soil carbon, to stop topsoil erosion and to have a positive impact on agricultural lands? This is the question our group set out to answer between...