John DeCicco, a professor of practice within the Sustainable Systems field of study at SNRE and an expert on renewable energy, discussed fuel economy standards with Greenwire in the context of a second Obama administration.
The Erb Institute is offering a new prize for the best sustainable enterprise teaching cases published each year by the William Davidson Institute's Globalens division. Cases published by February 28, 2013 will be entered in this year’s competition.
In an interview with The Financial Times, SNRE Professor Andy Hoffman discusses the role that waste conservation is playing within companies as they pursue broader sustainability agendas.
“In an age of plentiful and cheap resources you can afford to throw them out,” Hoffman is quoted in the story. “But as the price and the scarcity starts to go up, capturing them and bringing them back will be critical.”
The article, by Sarah Murray, is titled "The sustainable path to profit: don’t throw out the rubbish."
Forty master's and professional-degree students from eight schools and colleges at the University of Michigan, including 17 from the School of Natural Resources and Environment, are beginning the Dow Sustainability Fellows Program today, marking the first cohort of fellows in the $10 million program launched last spring.
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, social, and economic leaders around the world in promoting climate-change research, action, and opportunity on a global scale.
Reaching across business sectors and national borders, the Institute has identified and disseminated strategies for advancing energy-efficient technologies, informing the climate policies of key decision-makers, and encouraging climate-wise behavior by corporations and consumers.
Greg Keoleian, a professor of Sustainable Systems at SNRE and director of its Center for Sustainable Systems, was interviewed by SmartPlanet’s Ian Mount regarding plans by Uruguay to become the world’s biggest producer of wind power and one of the planet’s greenest countries.