Category Archives: Education

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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EDF Climate Corps Blog Posts Are Moving! Subscribe now to continue receiving them

By | Published: May 18, 2012

The flag's about to drop on EDF’s 2012 Climate Corps season, which kicks off Tuesday, May 22. We’re ramping up for the largest class of fellows EDF Climate Corps has ever seen, and we want to make sure you don’t miss a minute of the action. That’s why Climate Corps is launching its own blog [...]

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A Hydrating Dose of Energy Efficiency: EDF Climate Corps Fellows at Nestlé Waters

By | Bio | Published: May 1, 2012

By Justin Lindenmayer and Jenny McColloch, MBA Candidates, Yale University's School of Management, EDF Climate Corps Fellows 2011 With the most LEED certified factories (9), most water-efficient production process among all  packaged beverage companies in the US, and well on its way to achieving its goal of a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions below [...]

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Fast Company: Smart Energy Management Takes More Than Technology

By | Bio | Published: April 30, 2012

Knocking down a brick wall by yourself with your bare fists is next to impossible. But organize a team equipped with sledgehammers and a plan, and it gets a whole lot easier. In other words, when tackling tough problems, it’s not just about the tools you have, but how you marshal your assets to break [...]

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Harvard Business Students Debate KKR and Sustainability

By | Bio | Published: March 28, 2012

Thirty-five years ago, Milton Friedman wrote a famous article for The New York Times Magazine whose title aptly summed up its main point: "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits." Never mind that most companies don't pay the full price for the pollution they create, or the health and environmental impacts that [...]

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VERGE: Converging Energy, Information, Buildings and Transportation

By | Published: March 27, 2012

By Isabel Grantham, Project Analyst, EDF Corporate Partnerships EDF Climate Corps’s Managing Director Victoria Mills and I attended the VERGE GreenBiz.com conference last week in DC. Furthering energy efficiency in commercial buildings is one of the primary goals of EDF Climate Corps, so we are always interested in learning about innovative ideas in this space [...]

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Treasure Hunts: Engaging employees equals successful energy reduction and big savings

By | Bio | Published: March 14, 2012

Employee engagement is becoming a hot topic around the corporate water cooler.  Increasingly, CSR managers are seeing it as a way to not only have happier employees, but also to drive business value. At the same time, many companies are not fully taking advantage of energy efficiency, despite all the opportunities it can offer for [...]

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Dedicated effort, knowledge sharing and other learnings from the Greenbiz Forum

By | Bio | Published: February 27, 2012

By Jake MacArthur, 2011 EDF Climate Corps Fellow at REI, MEM Candidate at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Member of Net Impact A few weeks ago, I attended the GreenBiz.com Forum 2012 in San Francisco. The mix of keynotes, conversations, workshops and opportunities to network with other [...]

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Sometimes it’s all a matter of perspective: EDF Climate Corps fellow finds savings at CA Technologies

By | Bio | Published: February 21, 2012

By Shunsuke Numata, 2011 EDF Climate Corps fellow at CA Technologies, MBA Candidate at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management As an EDF Climate Corps Fellow at CA Technologies, it became readily apparent the company had already implemented many textbook energy management and reduction initiatives (i.e. installation of metering systems and replacement of [...]

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Stop. Look and listen. Then sign up for EDF Climate Corps 2012

By | Published: February 16, 2012

By Jocelyn Climent Representatives from HCA Healthcare and Ingersoll Rand shared insights into their energy efficiency initiatives during an Environmental Defense Fund webinar last Friday. Our second webinar of the season, meant to introduce new companies to the idea of saving energy and money through the EDF Climate Corps program, took place last Friday and [...]

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