Category Archives: EDFix Calls

Future of Green Call: What Defense Can Tell Business

By | Published: May 20, 2011

Future of Green Open Conference Call with Daniel Kreeger from ACCO On Tuesday, May 24th at noon ET, EDF will host a “Future of Green” open conference call with Daniel Kreeger, Executive Director of ACCO, to talk about conclusions from the Defense, National Security and Climate Change workshop and what business can take-away from the [...]

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A Deeper-dive on Expanding Sustainability Initiatives

By | Bio | Published: May 3, 2011

More than 40 people joined April's Growing GIBN call with Jeramy Lemieux of Diversey to learn about Diversey's portfolio management approach to enabling internal sustainability initiatives (notes and a recording of the call are available on the GIBN wiki). We are hoping to continue this high level of participation in May with two Growing GIBN opportunities. [...]

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Discuss Portfolios for Sustainability with Diversey's Jeramy Lemieux

By | Published: April 6, 2011

Let’s talk about how to make important reductions in carbon emissions while saving significant amounts of cash. Last month Greenbiz’s John Davies profiled Diversey, Inc.’s portfolio management approach to enabling internal sustainability initiatives. Davies explained that the approach “focused on achieving significant greenhouse gas reductions coupled with an attractive return on investment.”  He reported the [...]

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EDFix Call #15 Afterthoughts: Fuel choices for today's lower-carbon companies

By | Published: March 14, 2011

EDFix Call #15 – Summary (10 min.) Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes EDFix Call #15 – Full (53 min.) Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes Get Call Updates by Email With Mike Millikin of Green Car Congress, we talked about the uses of alternative fuels to green truck fleets. Methane and natural gas are [...]

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Future of Green Podcast: 3 Tips, 2 Warnings and a Conundrum

By | Bio | Published: March 9, 2011

New Sustainable Business Models Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes Get Call Updates by Email It turns out that getting two entrepreneurs, both interested in stretching the potential of business to be sustainable, onto a phone call about their work can lead to a mighty interesting conversation. Robin Chase, co-founder of Zipcar and GoLoco,  and [...]

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Future of Green Call Monday: Phone Number Change

By | Bio | Published: February 27, 2011

Aron Cramer, President and CEO of Business for Social Responsibility, will join us for a Future of Green Open Conference Call on February 28 at 1:30 p.m. ET (10:30 a.m. PT) to talk about his recent book Sustainable Excellence: The Future of Business in a Fast-Changing World. (To whet your interest, here are my 3 [...]

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3 Takeaways: Sustainable Excellence by Cramer and Karabell

By | Bio | Published: February 22, 2011

Aron Cramer, President and CEO of Business for Social Responsibility, will join us for a Future of Green Open Conference Call on February 28 at 1:30 p.m. ET (10:30 p.m. PT) to talk about his recent book Sustainable Excellence. We're in the age of information. Currently, there is a host of rich material from many [...]

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Future of Green Podcast: Barriers and Gamechangers

By | Bio | Published: February 16, 2011

Barriers & GamechangersSummary (11 min.) Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes Future of Green – Full (57 min.) Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes Get Call Updates by Email   Darcy Winslow, Founder of DSW Collective and Peter Senge,  Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Founding Chair of SoL, the Society for [...]

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Future of Green Podcast: Some Corporations Are Really Changing

By | Bio | Published: February 10, 2011

Sustainability: Can Corporations Really Change? Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes Get Call Updates by Email Maurice Bechard, director of global environment health & safety at Diversey, and Michael Kobori, vice president for social and environmental sustainability at Levi Strauss & Co, joined a recent Future of Green conference call to talk about their companies' increasingly public [...]

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EDFix Future of Green Podcast Series: "Have You Ever Heard of Environmental Defense Fund?"

By | Bio | Published: February 4, 2011

20 Years of Business Partnership Lessons at EDF Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes Get Call Updates by Email Bob Langert, vice president of corporate social responsibility at McDonald’s, explained that it all started with a letter from Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to McDonald's president at the time, Ed Rensi, essentially [...]

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