On August 16, 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The law will authorize $369 billion in spending on energy and climate change – the largest investment into addressing climate change in United States history. How will investments in climate change impact the Great Lakes? Join the conversation on Twitter on October 4th where...
Having the right tools in the toolbox is necessary to address tough challenges like the toxic algal bloom in Lake Erie. Partnering with the Joyce Foundation, the Erb Family Foundation made a grant to Environmental Working Group to use geospatial tools to identify where phosphorus might be most concentrated in Michigan. Throughout the process, Environmental...
According to SEMCOG, approximately 650-750 trucks travel residential roads in Southwest Detroit during a 12-hour period on a weekday. Watch this short video of Raquel Garcia, executive director of Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision and Angie Reyes, executive director of Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation explaining how diesel emissions from semi-trucks contribute to high asthma rates in...
By Raquel Garcia, Executive Director, Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision I moved to Southwest Detroit in 2005. A good friend drew me to the neighborhood. Every year, she would throw parties and I could hear happy music from other houses along with ice cream trucks and the excited voices of children buying ice cream treats. When...
Dianne Warren recently joined the Erb Family Foundation team as the Grants Manager and Office Manager. She brings over 20 years of experience in database management and office administration. Dianne will assist grantees with the grant application process, manage the office, and provide administrative support to Foundation staff. She reports to Neil Hawkins, president of...
Pictured above from left to right: John Erb, chair of the Erb Family Foundation, Jonathan T. Overpeck, Ph.D., dean of the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, and Thomas Gladwin, Professor Emeritus of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business during a 25th-anniversary event for the Erb Institute. By...
The EFF Board of Trustees recently determined that it is in the best interest of the Foundation, its stakeholders, partners, and the community for our organization to transition from an ongoing, perpetual foundation to one that has a planned, spend-down approach over the next 12+ years. This transformational decision follows a detailed analysis and assessment...
On April 14th, 2022, John Erb joined a panel of next generation sustainability leaders at the Frederick A. and Barbara M. Erb Institute. He talked about his parents’ legacy and their desire to train students in sustainability, and he challenged the students to work at a business and make sustainability changes from the inside. Watch...
This article was originally published by Cutter on April 26, 2022. By Neil Hawkins, President, Erb Family Foundation And Laura Asiala, Chief Sustainability Officer, Wholeworks All systems are perfectly designed to produce their results — even when their results are far from perfect. W. Edwards Deming observed that decades ago. Don’t like the results? Change the...