Blog cross posted on GreenBiz.com The Safe Chemicals Act, sponsored by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), champions the protection of consumers from the hazards of household products. While many public interest groups have hailed this legislation as an unambiguous win for...
By Allie Goldstein This past week, my master’s project team attended the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Doha, Qatar. By most accounts, the week was a huge success. We presented a poster at Forest Day, represented Michigan at our booth, made...
by Allie Goldstein We have arrived in Doha, Qatar—a city rising from the desert and, rather ironically, from oil revenue—for the 18th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP18). While expectations for an international climate change agreement are tempered this...
This blog is cross-posted on GreenBiz.com. As a summer MBA intern in the Walmart Sustainability Department, I had an amazing and rare opportunity. I was able to put into practice the sustainability rhetoric that’s repeated every day in my classes and green news...
Complied by Rachel Smeak with input from Wes Allred, Adam Byrnes, Adam Carver, Emily Dwinnells, Brian Moss, Cynthia Shih, and Sam Stevenson. As MBA/MS students, we like to stay on top of the latest news and thoughts related to sustainability. Recently, we consolidated...
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,...
Corporate sustainability strategies are common practice in today’s corporate America, going far beyond a company’s environmental footprint, to becoming a central part of company strategy. Sustainability challenges companies to think about themselves as part of an...
The most sophisticated management system in the world was developed in a laboratory of iron, oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon surrounded by a thin layer of ozone. This system, what we call the planet’s ecosystems, costlessly manages biological functions that allow us to...
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...