Category Archives: Events & Activities

EDF heads to VERGE SF

By | Published: November 5, 2012

EDF is heading to VERGE SF @ Greenbuild (November 12-13), a two-day conference which explores new opportunities created by the convergence of technologies for energy, information, buildings and transportation. These key topic areas are mirrored in many of our EDF Business projects. From our EDF Climate Corps focus on building and energy management, as well as [...]

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EDF Climate Corps Heads to Baltimore: Come see us at Net Impact

By | Published: October 25, 2012

The EDF Climate Corps team is heading to Baltimore this week for the annual Net Impact Conference to begin fellow recruitment efforts for the 2013 summer fellowship. EDF Staff Elena Kocherovsky, David Fox, Jocelyn Climent and Liz Delaney are looking forward to connecting with prospective students and hosts, reconnecting with alumni fellows and attending the [...]

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Standing Or Elbow Room In The Energy Sector?

By | Published: October 18, 2012

By Jamie Fine | Bio GridWeek 2012 convened earlier this month in Washington D.C., and as a first time attendee, I left breathless and hopeful – yet confused – by inexplicable lingering complacency. Unbeknownst to me, by agreeing to be a panelist in two sessions, I was setting up a comparative experiment. For the first [...]

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Where You'll Find Us in October

By | Published: October 5, 2012

Lee Coker kicked off our October conference travel at SOCAP12: Making Meaning Matter in San Francisco. Scott Wood spoke on a panel at the EnerNOC EnergySMART Conference from October 1 to October 3 in Boston, MA. That same week, Sitar Mody and Chaprece Henry exhibited at SXSW Eco Forum October 1-3 in Austin, TX. Over [...]

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EDF Business heads to RILA

By | Published: September 17, 2012

While retailers have a significant impact on climate, they also have a significant opportunity to reduce carbon emissions within their business and throughout their supply chain. This is why a team from EDF Business will be attending the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) Sustainability Conference in Phoenix, AZ from September 19-21. The conference provides an [...]

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Where You'll Find Us in September

By | Published: September 11, 2012

As temperatures drop this week, we are reminded that summer is behind us and we are headed into fall at full speed. Here is where you’ll find us in September: Elena Kocherovsky is attending Salesforce Dreamforce, September 18-21 in San Francisco. On September 19-21, Jason Mathers, Kate Hanley, Michelle Harvey and Scott Wood are attending [...]

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Where You'll Find Us in August and a Look Ahead

By | Published: August 3, 2012

This cruel, cruel summer has gone by faster than most of us expected, and racing in our direction is a busy fall full of great conferences. Here is a look at where we’ll be this fall: Jake Hiller, Chris Riso, David Fox and Sitar Mody are attending the ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in [...]

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EDF Climate Corps Trains its Biggest Cohort to Date

By | Published: June 15, 2012

By Andrew Willens, Marketing and Communications Intern, EDF Climate Corps Nearly a hundred enthusiastic Generation Y professionals recently gathered in Charlotte, NC to soak up decades of Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) expertise at the fifth annual EDF Climate Corps Training. After a week of lectures, group exercises and building tours, these fellows are now scattered [...]

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EDF and Greenbiz Present Supply-Chain Webcast: Join us June 13

By | Published: June 11, 2012

New technology and fresh thinking are unlocking a raft of previously unattainable economic and environmental efficiencies in the commercial shipping industry. Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has recently kicked off a new collaborative with logistics providers and shippers to glean and distribute knowledge of innovative trends. By making smarter decisions about mode matching, container utilization, collaborative [...]

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KKR Green Portfolio Program Celebrates Fourth Anniversary with Global Expansion

By | Bio | Published: May 23, 2012

KKR’s Green Portfolio Program, a project we launched together in 2008 to identify ways to improve the financial and environmental performance of KKR’s portfolio companies, turned four years old yesterday. And by the numbers, it’s been a very busy four years. Participating portfolio businesses have grown from our three pilot companies at the launch to [...]

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