Author Archives: Jerry Michalski

EDFix Call #15 Afterthoughts: Fuel choices for today's lower-carbon companies

By | Published: March 14, 2011

EDFix Call #15 – Summary (10 min.) Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes EDFix Call #15 – Full (53 min.) Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes Get Call Updates by Email With Mike Millikin of Green Car Congress, we talked about the uses of alternative fuels to green truck fleets. Methane and natural gas are [...]

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EDFix Call #14 Afterthoughts: Greening heavy-duty trucks: the next ten years

By | Published: January 19, 2011

EDFix Call #14 – Summary (10 min.) Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes EDFix Call #14 – Full (53 min.) Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes Get Call Updates by Email With Hiroko Kawai of the Rocky Mountain Institute, we headed for the bulk of the U.S. fleet: heavy-duty trucks, which make up 80 percent [...]

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EDFix Call #13 Afterthoughts: Challenges and Opportunities Electrifying Corporate Fleets

By | Published: January 11, 2011

EDFix Call #13 – Summary (12 min.) Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes EDFix Call #13 – Full (50 min.) Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes Get Call Updates by Email With Mike Millikin of Green Car Congress, we talked about a one specific strategy for greening fleets: electrification. Because of the limited range of [...]

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EDFix Call #12 Afterthoughts: Greening Medium-Duty Trucks

By | Published: December 7, 2010

With Environmental Defense Fund's Jason Mathers, we moved up the weight scale to medium-duty trucks, also called work or vocational trucks. Think of the “bucket” truck that lifts workers to power lines, or the garbage truck that wakes you at 6. Technically, these are Classes 3 through 5 in the Government’s classification system. These trucks [...]

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EDFix Call #11 Afterthoughts: Light-duty fleets – The next ten years

By | Published: November 30, 2010

EDFix Call #11 – Summary (12 min.) Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes EDFix Call #11 – Full (64 min.) Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes Get Call Updates by Email With Jim Motavalli, we dove into the part of fleet management most like the everyday cars we drive: light-duty fleets. These fleets include rental [...]

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EDFix Call #9 Afterthoughts: Reconnecting with The Commons

By | Published: May 17, 2010
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EDFix Call #9 – Summary (10 min.) Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes EDFix Call #9 – Full (54 min.) Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes Get Call Updates by Email An archaic German word — allmände — refers to goods used jointly by members of a community. This call was an exploration of such goods with [...]

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EDFix Call #10: Greening Fleets: What's the Vision?

By | Published: April 8, 2010

We've just finished a call sequence (which we're calling a "module") on The Commons, with special attention on the notion of a Sustainability Commons. Now we're turning our attention to a specific, high-impact domain for greening business: truck fleets and logistics in general. Emissions from corporate owned and operated vehicles account for about 6% of [...]

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EDFix Call #9: Strategy and the Commons

By | Published: March 16, 2010

Our inaugural EDFix module has focused on the Commons, with calls about governing the Commons, sharing green patents, bottom-up problem solving of global problems, life cycle cost analysis and most recently a dive into sharing data among health care institutions. Our guests have been stellar. Shortly we'll shift to a module about the green opportunities [...]

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EDFix Call #8: Open Source Processes in Business

By | Published: February 28, 2010

Many organizations now rely on open source software, ranging from the famed Linux operating system to its web-server cousin Apache, right down to curiously named programs like jboss, tomcat, Moodle, Drupal, mailman, SugarCRM, Zimbra, Asterisk and smarty. But how many have adopted open source processes? The programmer communities that designed those applications (and the Internet [...]

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EDFix Call #7: Bottom-Up Global Problem Solving

By | Published: February 18, 2010

Sustainability movements worldwide have created major new institutions and exchanges, from high-level conferences and carbon taxes to national markets and associated currencies. Anthony Williams, co-author of Wikinomics and its forthcoming sequel, Macrowikinomics, has a hunch these efforts are the wrong way to go about precipitating the broad, deep changes we need if we really are [...]

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