Thomas F. Catania, Jr., EAB member and former Erb Executive in Residence, is the retired Vice President of Government Relations at Whirlpool Corporation. He currently serves on the Analysis Technical Review Panel for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and is a...
MBA/MS, Class of 2010 Leonore currently serves as a Foreign Service Officer for the U.S. Department of State. Leonore previously worked for Amcor- the world's largest publicly-held plastic packaging company- where she managed corporate partnerships with the World Food...
MBA/MS, Class of 2003 For nearly 20 years, Michael Sadowski has worked with companies to create business value through a strategic approach to sustainability issues. Michael has been a trusted advisor to senior executives, driven change from within companies, led...
MBA/MS, Class of 2005 Rashila is a sustainability expert with deep understanding of how material issues affect business value drivers, evaluating ESG performance, and identifying attractive investment ideas. Expertise in monetizing impacts, air, waste, water,...
MBA/MS, Class of 2015 Therese Miranda-Blackney is Sr Director, Innovation at LevelTen Energy, a VC-backed renewable energy marketplace. Previously, she worked on product / customer program development and distributed energy resource strategy at Puget Sound Energy, a...
I lived in China for several years, and by the time I left in 2014, I had witnessed astounding economic growth. As a student at the Erb Institute, I was eager to understand the impact of China’s rapid expansion and consequent search for natural resources from the...
Prior to my 2015 internship at Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), I had preconceived thoughts on the activities and effectiveness of think tanks. Perhaps more than I should admit, I had the image of a group of smart people contemplating some of the most daunting problems...
By Kelsea Ballantyne When I joined the U of M Presidents Committee for Labor Standards and Human Rights last year, I had no idea how much it would open my mind to the power universities have to transform global supply-chains. Helping to organize the Symposium on...
The Elgar Companion to Sustainable Cities: Strategies, Methods and Outlook, edited by Hilda Blanco and former SNRE Dean, Dan Mazmanian, provides social, economic, political and environmental policy strategies for cities striving to advance in sustainability. Included...
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...