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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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Moving Away from PR Focused Sustainability

By | Published: April 12, 2012

By Lillias MacIntyre, Program Associate, Corporate Partnerships, EDF Defining “sustainability” in general terms can be difficult, since definitions evolve over time with new ideas or trends.  Sustainability today encompasses contexts of natural resources and the environment, economics and social equity, but generally speaking,  to be sustainable is to use “methods, systems and materials that won’t [...]

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Green Jobs, Blue Jobs

By | Published: April 9, 2012

The industrial sector accounts for roughly one-third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The good news is that there are huge, untapped energy-efficiency opportunities that can save manufacturing companies money (see www.lesscarbonmoreinnovation.org). Unfortunately barriers—ranging from financial, organizational and cultural—hinder companies from implementing these solutions That’s why EDF has teamed up with the labor union IUE-CWA on [...]

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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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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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