Julia Koslow performed life cycle assessment of new building in Wuhan, China.
Sustainable Systems
In this internship, Matt McMurtry was responsible for helping develop a sustainable supply strategy for The Coca-Cola Company.
Working with a small team in Gomez Palacio, Mexico, Paul Gruber helped form a team of local entrepreneurs, conducted sixteen business development workshops, and designed a water purification business plan.
In this internship Renata Amaral worked in a post merger management project of two financial institutions and she did organization re-design and found cost synergies.
Katie Pethan spent summer 2008 in Madagascar, working on a USAID Eco-Regional Initiatives project concerning invasive species management and the question of the invasiveness of Jatropha curcas in the New Protected Areas (NAPs) of the Ranomafana-Andringitra Corridor. Her home base was in Fianarantsoa, at the DAI / ERI USAID office.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
7/31/2008
Rapid growth indicates increased demand for "green" MBA programs
The Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan today announced that its enrollment increased 30 percent from the 2006-2007 academic year to 2007-2008, and that this growth trend shows all signs of continuing for the 2008-2009 academic year.
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Ann Arbor, MI
7/14/2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 14, 2008
Contact: Kevin Merrill
Office: 734.936.2447
merillk@umich.edu
ANN ARBOR - Record-setting "dead zones" in the Gulf of Mexico and Chesapeake Bay appear likely this summer, according to new forecasts from a University of Michigan researcher. Donald Scavia, a professor at the U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE), makes the annual forecasts using models driven by nutrient load estimates from the US Geological Survey.
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
5/28/2008
ANN ARBOR - The Great Lakes can lessen the impact of global warming or become global warming's victim-it all depends on Congress, according to a new report from the Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition. The authors urged Congress to enact a comprehensive plan to restore the health of the Great Lakes.
Jeff Skelding, Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition, (202) 797-6893, jskelding@nwf.org<br />Don Scavia, University of Michigan, (734) 615-4860, scavia@umich.edu<br />Andy Buchsbaum, National Wildlife Federation, (734) 887-7100, buchsbaum@nwf.org<br />Jordan Lubetkin, National Wildlife Federation, (734) 887-7109; lubetkin@nwf.org<br />Nora Ferrell, Valerie Denney Communications, (312) 408-2580, nora@vdcom.com Global Warming great lakes
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
4/30/2008
Companies that fail to shrink their carbon footprints and integrate energy policies with business strategies won't survive in today's marketplace, argues University of Michigan Professor Andrew Hoffman in a new book.
Every chief executive officer, regardless of company size, should be focused on those issue, argues Hoffman and co-author John G. Woody in "Climate Change: What's Your Business Strategy." The book is being released May 1 by Harvard Business School Press.
Kevin Merrill<br />Director of Communications<br />School of Natural Resources and Environment<br /><a href="mailto:merrillk@umich.edu">merrillk@umich.edu</a><br />O: 734.936.2447<br />C: 734.417.7392
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
4/23/2008
Arie Jongejan, a master's student at the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, was one of three University of Michigan students selected to receive an inaugural Compassion in Action Award. The awards were created by Jewel Heart Ann Arbor, a local Buddhist learning center, and bestowed by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama in a ceremony Sunday.
Kevin Merrill<br />Director of Communications<br />School of Natural Resources and Environment<br /><a href="mailto:merrillk@umich.edu">merrillk@umich.edu</a><br />O: 734.936.2447<br />C: 734.417.7392
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