Category Archives: EDFix Calls

EDFix Call #14 Afterthoughts: Greening heavy-duty trucks: the next ten years

By | Published: January 19, 2011

EDFix Call #14 – Summary (10 min.) Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes EDFix Call #14 – Full (53 min.) Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes Get Call Updates by Email With Hiroko Kawai of the Rocky Mountain Institute, we headed for the bulk of the U.S. fleet: heavy-duty trucks, which make up 80 percent [...]

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EDFix Call #13 Afterthoughts: Challenges and Opportunities Electrifying Corporate Fleets

By | Published: January 11, 2011

EDFix Call #13 – Summary (12 min.) Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes EDFix Call #13 – Full (50 min.) Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes Get Call Updates by Email With Mike Millikin of Green Car Congress, we talked about a one specific strategy for greening fleets: electrification. Because of the limited range of [...]

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EDFix Call #12 Afterthoughts: Greening Medium-Duty Trucks

By | Published: December 7, 2010

With Environmental Defense Fund's Jason Mathers, we moved up the weight scale to medium-duty trucks, also called work or vocational trucks. Think of the “bucket” truck that lifts workers to power lines, or the garbage truck that wakes you at 6. Technically, these are Classes 3 through 5 in the Government’s classification system. These trucks [...]

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EDFix Call: Visualizing a Sustainable 2050

By | Bio | Published: December 3, 2010

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development, a CEO-led association of 200 transnational companies, has developed an ambitious vision for what sustainability means and how the world can achieve it by 2050.  Produced by a task force with senior strategists from 29 companies including Accenture, Alcoa, Eskom, Procter & Gamble, Toyota, and Weyerhaeuser, Vision 2050 [...]

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EDFix Call #11 Afterthoughts: Light-duty fleets – The next ten years

By | Published: November 30, 2010

EDFix Call #11 – Summary (12 min.) Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes EDFix Call #11 – Full (64 min.) Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes Get Call Updates by Email With Jim Motavalli, we dove into the part of fleet management most like the everyday cars we drive: light-duty fleets. These fleets include rental [...]

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The Power of Partnerships

By | Published: November 29, 2010

These days, the need for private sector leadership in pursuing a healthier planet is greater than ever. We’re faced with challenges to meaningful climate and energy legislation and the burden of a global recession, but the good news is that Corporate America is stepping up to the plate. Recent announcements from companies like Unilever to [...]

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Adam Lowry, Robin Chase to discuss “New Business Models” on Tuesday’s EDFix Call

By | Bio | Published: November 22, 2010

The "Future of Green" podcast series continues tomorrow — Tuesday, November 23 — with a discussion about “New Business Models for Sustainability.”  The speakers are Robin Chase, entrepreneur and founder of ZipCar, and Adam Lowry, co-founder and chief greenskeeper of Method. To join the live conversation, dial into the following number at 10 am PT/ [...]

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Future of Green Call: Can Corporations Really Change?

By | Bio | Published: November 11, 2010

We're Sorry! Apologies to those of you who joined the Future of Green call on 11/9 only to find out there was no call. Because of scheduling conflicts, we postponed the call until this week but didn't do a good job of announcing the change. We're sorry for the inconvenience. To stay updated on call [...]

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Defining the Next Generation of Sustainable Business: An EDFix Call Series

By | Bio | Published: October 20, 2010

Environmental Defense Fund is working with Stanford’s Graduate School of Business Center for Social Innovation to discuss the the next generation of sustainable business. Beginning October 26 at 1:00 pm ET, we will host an 8-part series of one-hour expert interviews and open dialogues on business and environmental collaboration. The collection of conversations will be [...]

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EDFix Call #17: Cleaning up our ports

By | Bio | Published: July 22, 2010

Port facilities are critical hubs of international trade.  In the U.S., over 2 billion tons of cargo pass through our ports each year. These facilities can also be significant sources of harmful emissions that affect human health and warm our climate. These emissions are particularly worrisome, given that over 87 million Americans live near port [...]

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