Category Archives: Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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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Come Together: Collaboration Leads to Savings

By | Bio | Published: April 11, 2012
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When it comes to sustainability strategies, collaborative distribution is the total package: improved business value proposition, sizable cost reduction and promise of significant emissions reductions.  The potential of this strategy is why EDF listed it #2 on our Five Rules for a More Carbon-Efficient Freight Supply Chain. Under a collaborative distribution arrangement, companies in the [...]

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Where is Walmart on the 'Hype Cycle'?

By | Bio | Published: March 30, 2012

Michelle Mauthe Harvey co-leads Environmental Defense Fund's on-site partnership with Walmart in Bentonville, Arkansas, advancing sustainable business practices throughout its operations and supply chain. Is Walmart more hype than reality? Having worked with Walmart since 2005, my colleagues and I at Environmental Defense Fund are often asking that question, stepping back from our day-to-day work [...]

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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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Putting Mother Jones Walmart Article in Perspective

By | Bio | Published: March 26, 2012

In an article posted online this week, Mother Jones magazine makes a sweeping critique of Walmart’s efforts to reduce the environmental impacts created by its Chinese supply chain. Having been closely involved with Walmart on these and other sustainability initiatives since 2005, we’d like to offer EDF’s perspective on the story, and on what’s at [...]

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Five Rules for a More Carbon-Efficient Freight Supply Chain

By | Bio | Published: March 20, 2012

Fuel prices are back on the rise and companies are taking stock of opportunities to reduce costs and exposure to oil price spikes. The future trends in freight growth also call attention to the need to dramatically improve the efficiency of the current freight system. From 2010 to 2040, global demand for energy to power [...]

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Financing Energy Efficiency Upgrades In Commercial Properties

By | Published: March 15, 2012

By Brad Copithorne An Update Last September, I wrote about some of the barriers that commercial building owners face when they want to finance energy efficiency upgrades for their properties. The post also discussed an innovative new strategy called an Energy Services Agreement (ESA) that removes several of these barriers. Since that time, several of [...]

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How to use Air Freight? Sparingly

By | Bio | Published: March 13, 2012

The most impactful sustainability decision made by logisticians is the choice of transportation mode to move their freight. Planes emit 47 times more carbon per ton mile than container ships; trucks emit six times more carbon per ton mile than trains. The more carbon intensive modes typically cost more as well. A recent article in [...]

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Tapping IT Energy Savings: 4 Insights from the Experts

By | Published: March 6, 2012

By Mike Walker, President at Beacon Consultants Ten years ago, US EPA's ENERGY STAR Program approached my company, a consultancy that helps solve social problems involving large-scale human behavior change, with an interesting dilemma. Nearly every computer monitor sold in the US, they claimed, had built-in power saving “sleep” features that slashed electricity use by [...]

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