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Where You’ll Find Us in March

By | Published: March 12, 2012

We are marching straight into spring with exciting conferences. Here is where you can find us in March: Victoria Mills is speaking at Greenbiz’s VERGE conference in Washington, DC on March 14-16. Joining her at this event are Isabel Grantham and Jasper Jung. Lee Coker is speaking at the Financial Times: Investing in a Sustainable [...]

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EDF Business Women

By | Published: March 8, 2012

On a day dedicated to celebrating women, we wanted to take a moment and honor the ladies who lead our Corporate Partnerships Program. Gwen Ruta: Our fearless leader and Vice President of the Corporate Partnerships Program (CPP) has been with EDF for 12 years. She spearheads our work with leading companies to develop innovative, business [...]

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Energy Treasure Hunts Show Promise for Savings

By | Published: February 13, 2012

A groundbreaking collaboration between Environmental Defense Fund and IUE-CWA got off the ground with the first of six pilot projects to identify energy productivity measures at manufacturing facilities. Pulling in members from six other locals, IUE-CWA put together a team to work with members at the Cobasys hybrid battery plant to look for ways to [...]

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Where You'll Find Us in February

By | Published: February 2, 2012

Punxsutawney Phil called for more winter this morning, and we are calling for more conferences this month. Here is where you can find us in February: Namrita Kapur is attending a conference at her alma mater, Yale School of Management, titled “Beyond Best Practices: Financing and Implementing Social Change” on February 3. Lee Coker is [...]

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That's a Wrap! EDF Climate Corps fellow at Humana reflects on results

By | Bio | Published: December 9, 2011

John-Paul Fontelo is a 2011 EDF Climate Corps Fellow at Humana and an MBA Candidate at University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business Upon returning to Notre Dame this fall to kick off my second year of business school, I found myself reflecting on the real value of my summer fellowship as an EDF [...]

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Where You'll Find Us in December

By | Published: December 8, 2011

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Here are the conferences we’re attending this month. The final Solutions Lab of 2011 is happening today in Boston. Dave Witzel, Namrita Kapur, Victoria Mills and Scott Wood are attending. If you are at the Solutions Lab today and would like to share your feedback, email us [...]

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Where You'll Find Us in November

By | Published: November 11, 2011

The wild November come at last! Here's a list of where we've been and where we will be this month. The Social Enterprise Alliance Conference was held on October 30-November 2 in Chicago, where Beth Trask spoke on a panel. Victoria Mills and Dave Witzel visited the capital on October 31-November 2 for a panel [...]

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Portland, here we come! EDF Climate Corps tour heads to Oregon for Net Impact

By | Published: October 26, 2011
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By Isabel Grantham, Project Analyst, EDF Corporate Partnerships The EDF Climate Corps team is off to Portland tomorrow for the 2011 Net Impact Conference, and we are looking forward to the chance to network with enthusiastic students and forward-thinking organizations. EDF staff Sitar Mody, Emily Reyna, Katie Ware and Isabel Grantham will be there. While [...]

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Not a Particle of Waste

By | Bio | Published: October 12, 2011

Last year WBCSD released “Vision 2050: The new agenda for business,” its pathway to a world of 9 billion people living well, within the resource limits of the planet. On a Future of Green call we talked about this report with Bob Horn who helped illustrate the complex path required. Today, I’m in Orlando to [...]

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Where You’ll Find Us in October

By | Published: October 7, 2011

Fall is in full swing and so are our conference appearances! With so many to choose from we’re bound to meet somewhere! Starting today, Friday, October 7, Namrita Kapur is speaking at The Columbia Social Enterprise Conference in New York City. As we move through the month, we’ve got the Growing GIBN Call: Experiences from [...]

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