Local food initiatives have taken off across the country in recent years. Registered farmers markets, for example, expanded nationally from around 3,000 in 2000 to over 8,000 in 2012, and urban farming has exploded across neighborhoods, at schools and in healthcare...
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Constructing Green: The Social Structures of Sustainability, MIT Press
Edited by Rebecca Henn, former Erb PhD student who recently received her doctorate and Erb Institute Director, Andy Hoffman. This books examines the increase in sustainable buildings by understanding the fundamental challenges green construction faces through...
Re-imagining Cities at Toronto’s Evergreen Brick Works
Erb PhD, Mikell Hyman explores how we can re-imagine our cities and the way community-based programs teach children about environmental science and green design. Read more: Geoff Cape, Reimagining Cities at Toronto's Evergreen Brick Works (html)
The Road from Dubai to Davos
Also known as the braintrust of the World Economic Forum, the Global Agenda Council participants here in Dubai are an assemblage of what some would call the world’s brightest, most accomplished, and most intelligent. We have taken the chance to meet and speak with...
The Admit of Defeat in Sustainable Development
This article was originally published by Student Reporter on 14th of August 2012. It is republished in full with permission. Since the end of the Rio+20 Earth Summit, the general sentiment on the outcome has not been very positive, to say the least. It has been...
Emerging roles for academia, business and NGO’s from Rio +20
“Rio+20 has shown that business will have to drive the solution because we have seen that the process where governments have to come to an agreement is becoming more and more difficult. In the future, we will look back and see that this was the first time business...
UN PRME Forum Wraps Up in Rio
This story is cross-posted in Network for Business Sustainability Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development 2012, Rio-Brazil In an effort to re-orient business schools’ curricula, the Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME), an academically-minded...
Can Systems Thinking Actually Solve Sustainability Challenges? Part 2, The Solution
This is the second part in a two-part series on the role of systems thinking in business solutions for sustainable development. [button color="accent-color" hover_text_color_override="#fff" size="medium" url="https://erb.umich.edu/2012/06/04/systems-thinking-part-1/"...
UN PRME Global Forum Wraps Up – but Where Are Top Tier Business Schools?
Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development 2012, Rio-Brazil “In the past business schools have been too concerned about being the best in the world. Now they need to aspire to be the best for the world” (statement from the Principles of Responsible Management...
Are Academics Afraid of Action?
This post is in reflection of the first day of the UN PRME Global Forum. “I wonder if academics are afraid of action,” started Claus Pederson, Head of Sustainable Development of Novozyme, to a room filled with 300+ professors, deans and directors of business schools,...