Author Archives: Victoria Mills

EDF Climate Corps Turns Over a New Leaf

By | Bio | Published: May 21, 2013

Today, Environmental Defense Fund launched a new class of EDF Climate Corps fellows to catalyze energy savings in organizations around the country. This year’s class is bigger than ever – with 116 students placed in 106 different organizations.  New participants such as Apple, Colgate-Palmolive, General Motors, and the cities of Austin and Philadelphia are joining [...]

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EDF Climate Corps Turns Five, Continues to Surprise

By | Bio | Published: May 22, 2012

If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world. With over 900 million users, the social media site now has a market valuation of $104 billion – all because of a clever idea conceived in a college dorm room eight years ago. A good idea taken to scale can be [...]

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Reasons to be cheerful: EDF Climate Corps finds $650 million in energy savings.

By | Bio | Published: September 21, 2011

By: Victoria Mills, Managing Director of Corporate Partnerships for EDF, and Michael Regan, Director of Energy Efficiency, EDF Recent headlines paint a gloomy picture of our economy, with its looming deficits and stubborn unemployment rate. And let’s not forget the steady stream of evidence that climate change is already happening.  But today, a ray of [...]

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Shining a Light on Energy Efficiency: EDF Climate Corps reflects on three years of results

By | Bio | Published: May 17, 2011

As any energy manager knows, it’s one thing to find energy-saving projects that are worth doing, and quite another to get them implemented.  Over the last three years, EDF Climate Corps fellows have uncovered almost a billion kilowatt hours of potential energy savings, representing $439 million in net operating savings.  But our biggest question has [...]

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These Are the Champions … of Energy Efficiency

By | Bio | Published: September 14, 2010
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Consider these numbers:  $350 million in net operating savings over the project lifetimes.  400,000 metric tons of annual greenhouse gas emissions.  More than 650 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year.  These are the astonishing savings unearthed by 51 EDF Climate Corps fellows working at Fortune 1000 companies this summer. As impressive as these numbers [...]

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EDF Climate Corps: Building a movement for energy efficiency in business

By | Bio | Published: May 18, 2010

This summer, 51 Climate Corps fellows will take their places on the front lines of a new movement for energy efficiency in business – a movement grounded in smart economics and fueled by the talents of the next generation of business leaders. It’s a movement whose time has come.  Climate change is the environmental challenge [...]

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The Starbucks Cup Summit: Rethinking the Recycling System

By | Bio | Published: May 12, 2010

When I got the invitation to Starbucks’ second Cup Summit in April, I was struck by the ambitiousness of the agenda.  According to the email, the purpose of the meeting was to help the company meet its goal of making its hot and cold single-use cups “recyclable in form and practice” by 2012. What that [...]

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Got paper? Here's a tool to help you reduce the environmental impacts of paper use

By | Bio | Published: April 5, 2010

Even in our electronic age, paper is still with us.  It brings us our morning news (some of us still arrive at work with ink-stained fingers), great literature and gossip magazines, personal hygiene and playing cards.  But producing and disposing of paper has huge and wide-ranging environmental impacts, from damage to forests to energy and [...]

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A View from the Hill: Hybrid Trucks Deliver the Environmental and Economic Goods

By | Bio | Published: June 23, 2009

On my way to Logan Airport for an early morning flight to DC recently, I got stuck behind an old diesel truck.  Black smoke billowed from the tailpipe.  "It doesn't have to be this way," I thought to myself. As it happened, I was on my way to Hybrid Day on the Hill, an event [...]

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