Author Archives: Guest Author

Did you know that the adidas Group has a sustainability venture capital fund?

By Guest Author | Published: May 3, 2013

By: Elizabeth Turnbull Henry Elizabeth Turnbull Henry was an EDF Climate Corps fellow at the adidas Group in 2010. After completing her EDF fellowship, she was hired on by the adidas Group as Senior Manager of Environmental Affairs. She has since hired multiple EDF Climate Corps fellows -, and has been an active participant in [...]

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Cutting Water Use – It Starts by Keeping Score

By Guest Author | Published: April 29, 2013

By John Schinter, Executive Director of Energy at AT&T When I was hired in 2009, my task was – and still is – to improve the way AT&T manages energy use. The company understood that inefficient energy use was having an environmental impact and costing us money. In 2010 and 2011, we found energy savings [...]

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Rubicon Global Disrupts the Waste Stream through Entrepreneurism

By Guest Author | Published: April 16, 2013

By Elizabeth Hill, Director of Corporate and Social Responsibility, Rubicon Global Why do we throw trash away? Because we have already extracted the value out of a product and we do not need what is left over. What remains is usually seen as dirty or useless. It goes into the can and out of our [...]

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Industrial Ecology: A Call for Papers

By Guest Author | Published: April 12, 2013

By Reid Lifset, Associate Research Scholar, Resident Fellow in Industrial Ecology, Associate Director of the Industrial Environmental Management Program, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Industrial Ecology Industrial ecology (IE) is an ensemble concept that specifies ways in which firms can and are currently starting to deal with their environmental impact. It builds on a [...]

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Corporate Sustainability 2012: Some Standout Companies… But Most Mired in Rampant Incrementalism

By Guest Author | Published: January 30, 2013

Each winter in Davos, world leaders and captains of industry gather to discuss the most pressing issues on the planet. For the past seven years, this amazing event has also hosted the launch of the annual “Global 100 Most Sustainable Companies,” published by the Canadian media and research firm, Corporate Knights. Sustainability ratings matter! And [...]

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Why Ingersoll Rand’s Collaboration with EDF Climate Corps Works

By Guest Author | Published: January 22, 2013

By Scott Tew, Executive Director, Center for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability, Ingersoll Rand As we plan for our fourth summer of hosting Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Climate Corps fellows, I’m reviewing the great strides we’ve made based on the work of the six EDF fellows Ingersoll Rand has hosted to date. Through Ingersoll Rand’s involvement [...]

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Environmental Leader: Fund Managers, Investors Increasingly Focus on ESG

By Guest Author | Published: September 14, 2012

Andrew Malk and Zach Goldman are Partners at Malk Sustainability Partners (MSP), a specialty management consultancy that guides investors and businesses to leverage resource and environmental management to maximize profitability. Many of the most recognized names in the private equity industry are currently leveraging environmental, social, and governance (ESG) tools to create financial value for [...]

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Hydro Logic: A Crucial Tool to Help Companies Address Water Risk

By Guest Author | Published: August 6, 2012

Brooke Barton leads the Water Program at Ceres, a national coalition of investors and public interest groups working with companies to address sustainability challenges such as climate change and water scarcity. Water bills make up a tiny fraction of operating costs even for companies that use vast amounts of the stuff, and ample supplies have [...]

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Walmart: Driving solar in California

By Guest Author | Published: July 30, 2012

By Walmart Green Room What country ranks No. 1 in the world in solar? The U.S.? Japan? The No. 1 country is actually Germany, followed by the solar-loving country of Spain. Japan is next, followed by the United States. Solar is important to a future powered by renewable resources, one that reduces greenhouse gases and [...]

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Cool Buildings, Parched Cities? EDF and AT&T Target Water Savings

By Guest Author | Published: May 15, 2012

By John Schinter, Executive Director of Energy, AT&T, and Gwen Ruta, Vice President of Corporate Partnerships, Environmental Defense Fund We live indoors, we work indoors, we shop indoors, we even often play sports indoors. With so much of the modern American economy taking place indoors, and population centers shifting to warmer regions, the environmental and [...]

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