Erb students Emily Taylor ('14) and Jenny Cooper ('15) win Dow Distinguished Awards for Interdisciplinary Sustainability. Emily's team proposal, Enabling Energy Efficiency in Rental Properties focuses on finance energy efficiency projects for rental properties....
Results for research on: Water
Monica Ellis – “Tackling our Global Water Challenge”
Tackling Our Global Water Challenge Monica Ellis is the Chief Executive Officer of the Global Environment & Technology Foundation (GETF), a leading not-for-profit foundation that advances sustainability through public-private partnerships. Event Details | More...
Sustainability as a Business Edge
Erb post-doctoral research fellow, Laurie Kaye Nijaki contributed to the Sustainability as a Business Edge report with 'environmentally preferable practice' suggestions Read more
Designing Innovative Corporate Water Risk Management Strategies from an Ecosystem Services Perspective
Designing Innovative Corporate Water Risk Management Strategies from an Ecosystem Services Perspective Multidisciplinary Action Project Authors: Daniel Gerding ('14), Berry Kennedy ('14), Makely Lyon ('14), Joshua Rego, and Emily Taylor ('14) Advisor: Don Scavia,...
Crucial Creeks Watershed Project
Client Organization: Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council Client Website: Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council SNRE Faculty Advisor: Allen Burton and Dave Allan Master Students Involved in Project: Elizabeth Lillard, MS Sustainable Systems Diana Portner, MS Behavior,...
How Science Can Predict Where You Stand On Keystone XL
Erb Director discusses the roles of the "bright green" and "dark green" environmental factions, and activist Bill McKibben in "How Science Can Predict Where You Stand on Keystone XL. Read more: Read it online: How Science Can Predict Where You Stand On Keystone XL
Detroit: Serving and Learning in our Community
Detroit: Serving and Learning in our Community / Report No. 124, 4 pages This report features the revitalization of Detroit’s lower east side, adaptive reuse of inner-city buildings, Ross School’s revitalization & business (R&B) initiative, new internships at...
Identity and Sustainability at U.S. Botanical Gardens
Identity, Sustainability, and Local Setting at U.S. Botanical Gardens New paper published by Erb Faculty Affiliate, Victoria Johnson. Victoria thanks the Erb Institute for the research grant that made her paper possible. "In the last decade, an increasing number of...
Mitigating Corporate Water Risk
Working in collaboration with LimnoTech and Professor Peter Adriaens, Erb Student Viktor Passinsky ('13) published Mitigating Corporate Water Risk: Financial Market Tools and Supply Management Strategies in the October 2012 issue of Water Alternatives....
Erb – WEC Parnership to Fund 8 Graduate Fellows
IBM Funded Erb and World Environment Center Partnership to Fund 8 Erb-WEC Fellows The partnership strengthens the University of Michigan’s leadership role in the advancement of sustainability concepts and practices for future graduates. WEC will provide students...