Category Archives: Future of Green

Future of Green Podcast: Barriers and Gamechangers

By Dave Witzel | 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 Dave Witzel | 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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Where You’ll Find Us in February

By Monica Michaan | Published: February 8, 2011

Earlier this month, Punxsutawney Phil told us that we’re to expect an early spring in 2011. Let’s see what else February has for us. As most of you in the environmental business world already know, Greenbiz is hosting the 2011 State of Green Business Forum this month, and many of our experts are attending. Victoria [...]

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

By Dave Witzel | 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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EDFix Call: Visualizing a Sustainable 2050

By Dave Witzel | 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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The Power of Partnerships

By Jasper Jung | 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 Beth Trask | 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 Dave Witzel | 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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Where You'll Find Us in November

By Monica Michaan | Published: November 4, 2010

On November 5, Beth Trask, David Witzel, Michelle Harvey and Elizabeth Sturcken are attending the Solutions Lab Fayetteville, kindly hosted by the University of Arkansas. From November 3-5, Rachel Hinchliffe is attending the BSR Conference.

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Building on the Heritage of Partnership: I'm lovin' it

By Climate Corps Fellow | Bio | Published: October 28, 2010

By Koji Kitazume, 2010 EDF Climate Corps fellow at McDonald’s Corporation, Joint degree MBA/MEM candidate at The Fuqua School of Business and Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Member of Net Impact On average, it serves 60 million customers a day through more than 32 thousand restaurants in nearly 120 countries around the world [...]