Category Archives: Treasure Hunts

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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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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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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Changing Culture Changes Behavior: Labor Union Treasure Hunts find lasting success

By | Published: January 19, 2012

Environmental Defense Fund’s (EDF) innovative partnership with labor union IUE-CWA took me close to home with its second Treasure Hunt at CCL Container in Hermitage, PA, a facility that designs and manufactures aluminum based packaging products for a wide variety of industries, producing a 100 percent recyclable product.  The Treasure Hunt identified over $180,000 in [...]

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Don't Judge a Facility or Partnership by its Cover: You could miss out on big energy savings

By | Published: October 4, 2011

As the new Industrial Energy Productivity fellow in the Corporate Partnerships Program at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), the last place I thought I would end up going for work was the small town of Springboro, Ohio. But there I was thanks to EDF’s ground-breaking partnership with IUE-CWA, a labor union with 45,000 members at over [...]

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Yar! Treasure Hunt Digs Up $70,000 in Energy Cost Savings

By | Published: September 28, 2011

For some, a Treasure Hunt calls to mind images of the high seas, pirates and buried treasure. This particular Treasure Hunt, however, occurred not at sea, but in Springboro, Ohio—at the Cobasys advanced battery manufacturing plant. But it did turn up a treasure trove of energy cost savings and carbon reductions…and a few pirates too! [...]

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Spreading Sustainability: From the Fortune 500 to the next 5,000

By | Bio | Published: April 27, 2011

Recently in Harvard Business Review, Michael Porter and Mark Kramer wrote about “The Big Idea” – that companies must take the lead by “creating economic value in a way that also creates value for society by addressing its needs and challenges.” Driven by win-win success stories, by a vacuum in policy leadership, and by the [...]

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Our Top 10 of 2010: EDF's news at the intersection of business and the environment

By | Published: January 3, 2011

As we kick off 2011, we’ve taken the time to highlight our efforts to accelerate environmental innovation across the business sector over the past year. Which story do you think has the greatest potential for creating significant change around business sustainability in the years to come? From Heresy to Dogma: How Uncommon Bedfellows Changed the [...]

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EDF's Energy Efficiency Elves Give You the 12 Tips of Energy Efficiency

By | Published: December 21, 2010

“They know when you are sleeping. They know when you’re awake. They know if your lights are on or off, so switch ‘em off for heaven’s sake!” Utilities don’t take time off from monitoring your energy usage during the holidays. You know to switch off your decorative lights and turn down your heater to lower [...]

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