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Elgar Companion to Sustainable Cities

Elgar Companion to Sustainable Cities

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...

Energy: Consider the Global Impacts of Oil Pipelines

Energy: Consider the Global Impacts of Oil Pipelines

Erb Faculty Director, Joe Arvai published in Nature (International Weekly Journal of Science) Consider the global impacts of oil pipelines. The debate over the development of the tar sands in Alberta, Canada, has long been a flashpoint for tensions in and between...

Identifying challenger roles in the U.S. environment movement

Identifying challenger roles in the U.S. environment movement

Erb Faculty Director, Andy Hoffman, Erb Post-doc alumna, Stephanie Bertels and Rich DeJordy published "The Varied Work of Challenger Movements: Identifying Challenger Roles in the US Environmental Movement" in Organization Studies. This article analyses underlying...

Lessons for Detroit from Medellín, Colombia

Lessons for Detroit from Medellín, Colombia

Steve Davidson, Erb '14 takes home lessons for Detroit from Medellín, Colombia. Metro--the city's public transit arteries Metrocable--connections for the city's poorest neighborhoods Public spaces and public art--inspiring hope in a hopeless place Unidades...

Interface’s Net-Works Program

Interface’s Net-Works Program

Interface's Net-Works Program: A New Approach to Creating Social Value through Sustainable Sourcing (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on GlobaLens (Case study # 1-429-374)– published 02/2014, 20 pages. Developed by: Makely Lyon ('14), Javier Rivera ('14), Lauren...

Whole Foods: A Luxury Grocer in Detroit?

Whole Foods: A Luxury Grocer in Detroit?

Whole Foods: A Luxury Grocer in Detroit (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on GlobaLens (Case study # 1-429-371)– published 02/2014, 16 pages. Developed by: Claire Boland, Heping (Cindy) Fu, Kristine Schantz ('16), and Daniel Voce-Gardner ('14) under the...