Professor Tom Lyon was among the 12-member Steering Committee of international business and civil society leaders and academic experts that produced the report, Toward Sustainability: The Roles and Limitations of Certification. Funded by The David and Lucile Packard...
Project: Michigan Green Communities: Strengthening Municipal Sustainability Practices through Statewide Network Building Client: Michigan Green Communities Faculty Advisor: Josh Newell Student Group Members: Benjamin Bunker, Antonia Chan, Andrew Fang, Seth Federspiel,...
This post appeared in Next Billion on April 5, 2012 Rye Barcott coined the phrase "talent is universal; opportunity is not" in his 2011 book It Happened on the Way to War, which described his experience living in the Kibera slum of Nairobi prior to beginning his...
Climate change presents numerous ideological challenges to our culture and our beliefs” -- Read Andy Hoffman's comments in this week's New York Times Sunday Review Whatever Happened to Global Warming? - Read the NY Times article
Range Resources: A Commitment to Transparency (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on Range Resources: A Commitment to Transparency (Case study #1-429-168) – published 06/2011, 28 pages. By: Tal Avrahami, Pamela Barclay, Sarah Barjum, Lauren Berent, Amy Braun,...
A growing number of Erb Institute faculty members and students are building relationships with businesses and organizations in China. Erb Director Thomas Lyon shared insights from his China trip in his July 16 blog in FastCompany.com. He noted that although Chinese...
Why Do States Adopt Renewable Portfolio Standards?: An Empirical Investigation Thomas P. Lyon, University of Michigan Haitao Yin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University The Energy Journal 31 by the IAEE: 131-155. Renewable portfolio standards (RPSs) for electricity generation...
Despite the best efforts of governments, builders and developers are often left in the dark about changes to local building codes and initiatives. There are ways to turn the light on. Have you ever stepped into your city’s permit office, building plans in hand, only...
Read the report: http://issuu.com/erbinstitute/docs/informinggreenmarkets?e=3090542/44512481
"How Strong Is the State in China, Really?"