Working at the Forefront of Climate-Change Action and Opportunity / Report No. 131, 4 pages Energized by overwhelming scientific evidence and agreement that human activity is causing serious changes in the Earth’s climate, the Erb Institute has joined environmental,...
Brian Swett, Chief of Environment and Energy for the City of Boston reporting directly to the mayor and an Erb 08 alum, leads new mayoral initiatives to mitigate climate change: Boston mayor calls on city to prepare for climate change.
Presentation sponsored by the Environmental Law and Policy Program Clean tech is tough right now. Vestas pulled out of the U.S. A123 went bankrupt. Solyndra is a bust. Carbon legislation is the new living dead. Low natural gas prices have killed the financials of...
I’m a self-professed “not-a-car-guy” and rather proud of it. I have no feigned romanticism for those loud, obnoxious engines in muscles cars, and as someone who barely knows how to check his oil I’m without the fond memories of taking apart a transmission or...
People complain that my generation’s “addiction” to technology will lead us down the path of unsustainability. I think they are wrong. While it is true that my generation, Gen Y (those born after 1980) is the quickest demographic to adopt new computing trends, the...
A recent report by the Metropolitan Infrastructure Initiative at the Brookings Institute, called Transit Access and Zero Vehicle Households, revealed several striking statistics about Detroit transit. Of the 136,000 households without cars in the Detroit metro area,...
As Ford Motor Company's manager of social sustainability, David Berdish is at the vanguard of executive chairman Bill Ford's goal of transforming Ford "from a motor company to a mobility company." Read more: The Blue Oval Goes Green
This post appeared in GreenBiz on February 27, 2012 Editor's Note: This is the final article in a seven-week series by Nathan Springer that will chronicle in-depth the lessons from a course at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business on how to become a...
This post appeared in GreenBiz on February 7, 2012 Editor's Note: This is the fifth article in a seven-week series by Nathan Springer that will chronicle in-depth the lessons from a course at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business on how to become a...
University of Michigan Hosts Clean Tech Symposium to Explore the Dynamics of Collaboration and Competition Between Michigan and China ANN ARBOR, MI--(Marketwire - 11/30/10) - Reflecting increased interest in global clean tech innovation and concerns over the emerging...