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EDF’s private equity work highlighted in Environmental Finance

By | Published: March 13, 2013

Last week, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) was featured in Environmental Finance. The piece centers on results from our work with the private equity sector on environmental initiatives like EDF Climate Corps and our ESG Management Tool. Below are a couple interesting excerpts from the article: Creating a competitive advantage When it comes to managing environmental, [...]

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Learning to Dance: Discussing Ways to Improve Partnerships for Sustainability

By | Published: May 14, 2010

This is a guest post by Kevin Moss, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at BT Americas. "When Giants Learn To Dance" was the title of Rosabeth Moss Kanter's classic book about how corporations can be both giants and innovators. Guy Clark's musical advice is "You got to dance like nobody's watching." But what if you [...]

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EDFix Call #10 Afterthoughts: Developing a Vision for Greener Fleets

By | Published: May 2, 2010

EDFix Call #10 – Summary (11 min.) Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes EDFix Call #10 – Full (52 min.) Download MP3 | Subscribe in iTunes Get Call Updates by Email We hit the road April 12 with a series of open conference calls regarding a pressing matter in greening business – truck fleets and [...]

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Private Equity as 'Environmental Crusaders?' The Times They Are a-Changin'

By | Published: April 26, 2010

This is a guest post by Ian Bailey, Managing Partner of Capital C Partners, a strategic communications firm. What do mattress maker Sealy Corp., discount retailer Dollar General and consumer guides publisher PRIMEDIA  all have in common?  They’re all private equity-owned and have adopted new, environmentally sound business practices delivering millions of dollars in annual [...]

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Make every day Earth Day

By | Published: April 22, 2010

Today is Earth Day, but the idea of living an environmentally-conscious lifestyle doesn’t have to begin and end with what you do today.  Even though the media loves Earth Day, today shouldn't be the only day we think about the environmental impacts of what we do both professionally and personally. Colin Beavan, aka "No Impact [...]

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The Future of Corporate-NGO Partnerships: Insights from the Fortune 500

By | Bio | Published: April 20, 2010

Last week, we hosted an intimate lunch at the Fortune Brainstorm Green conference in Laguna Niguel to get the perspective of Fortune 500 firms on the future of Corporate-NGO Partnerships. Our Vice President of Corporate Partnerships, Gwen Ruta, kicked off the lunchtime conversation with an interesting insight: “20 years ago [when we partnered with McDonald’s], [...]

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Five barriers to energy efficiency savings – and how smart companies can overcome them

By | Bio | Published: April 19, 2010

Here’s a business conundrum for you: energy efficiency saves serious money, cuts carbon pollution, requires low tech solutions, and is a known quotient, having been around since the 1970s. So why are so many companies still not taking the necessary steps to identify and eliminate these inefficiencies? “What we learned in Econ 101 doesn’t hold [...]

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Use Night-Vision Goggles to Uncover Innovations through Sustainability

By | Bio | Published: April 14, 2010

This morning, I spoke on a panel called “Driving Innovation Through Sustainability” at the Fortune Brainstorm Green conference.  Given that the panel was held at the eye-popping hour of 8 AM, it’s testament to the topic that the room was overflowing.  Or perhaps the draw was my fellow panelists – Matt Kistler, Senior Vice President [...]

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