Tag Archives: Innovation

EDF’s private equity work highlighted in Environmental Finance

By EDF Staff | 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, [...]

Posted in EDF Climate Corps, Innovation, Private Equity | Also tagged EDF Climate Corps, Energy Efficiency, Environmental sustainability, green business, private equity | Leave a comment

EDFbiz Brief: Highlights of our recent work

By Gwen Ruta | Bio | Published: April 26, 2011

Understandably, hectic schedules and information overflow makes it easy for news to sometimes slip through the cracks. This is why we want to recap some of the exciting things we’ve been working on over the last few months at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). EDF CLIMATE CORPS As we gear up for the summer, we’ve closed [...]

Posted in About Us, EDF Climate Corps, Events & Activities, Innovation, Innovation Exchange, News Commentary, Partnerships, Quarterly Update, Walmart | Also tagged EDFbiz Brief, Walmart | Leave a comment

Where You'll Find Us in March

By Monica Michaan | Published: February 26, 2010

On March 3rd, Gwen Ruta will be a “working-group facilitator” at The Wall Street Journal’s ECO:nomics Conference in Santa Barbara, CA. From March 9th thru March 12th Jana Holt and Jason Mathers will be at the National Truck Equipment Association’s Work Truck Show in St. Louis, MO. In Conjunction with the Work Truck Show, Jana [...]

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Why Walmart's Carbon Commitment Can Make Such a Difference

By Elizabeth Sturcken | Bio | Published: February 25, 2010

Archimedes said "Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the earth," when explaining the principle of levers. Leverage is the big news about Walmart’s announcement today. The company has committed to reducing 20 million metric tons of carbon pollution from its products’ lifecycle and supply chain over the next five years. That’s [...]

Posted in Partnerships, Supply Chain Management, Walmart | Also tagged Energy Efficiency, environment, Environmental innovation, Environmental sustainability, green, Green house gases, greenhouse gases, Supply Chain, sustainability, sustainable | 20 Responses

EDFix Call #6: GreenXchange, Nike, & Davos

By Dave Witzel | Bio | Published: February 2, 2010

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Last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Nike and Creative Commons announced their new open innovation initiative, GreenXchange. Nike explains: Nike and Creative Commons believe in the power of open innovation and share a vision of creating a platform that promotes the creation and adoption of technologies that have the potential to solve [...]

Posted in EDFix Calls, Innovation | Also tagged creative commons, Davos, EDFix, greenxchange, nike, open innovation, patents, sharing, sustainability, WEF | 3 Responses

Where Do Good (sustainability) Ideas Come From?

By seanbrady | Bio | Published: July 14, 2009

Exploring Networking, Knowledge, & Learning for Sustainability This summer I am fortunate to be working on an internship with Environmental Defense Fund's Innovation Exchange (EDF) and AltaTerra Research. I am exploring how Fortune 1000 executives learn about sustainability and their business. We want to learn more about the resources executives use to make decisions around [...]

Posted in Innovation | Also tagged business, corporations, ideas, networks, resources, sustainability | Leave a comment

Green Innovation in the City of Clean Tech

By Kyle Cahill | Bio | Published: June 25, 2009

Boston was recently named the nation's "best city for clean tech" and we were fortunate enough to hold our second Green Innovation for Business Unconference across the river in Cambridge this week at Microsoft New England. Close to 100 business leaders, entrepreneurs, academics and advocates came together for a day-long group-think to figure out how [...]

Posted in Events & Activities | Also tagged business, gibu09, green, sustainable, unconference | Leave a comment

"Green Innovation for Business" Updates

By Dave Witzel | Bio | Published: May 29, 2009

A few updates about the Green Innovation for Business Unconferences that are coming up. Hurry Up & Register People are starting to register, especially for the Washington DC event, but there is still plenty of room at all of them. Don't hesitate, do it now! Here are links to the registration pages: June 11 in [...]

Posted in Events & Activities | Also tagged ashoka, austin, boston, entrepreneur, green, silicon valley, unconferences, washington dc | Leave a comment

Lessons from Innovation (the book)

By Dave Witzel | Bio | Published: April 17, 2009

Passing through the MIT book store on my way to visit the Center for Collective Intelligence I stumbled across a copy of Richard Lester and Michael Piore's book "Innovation: The Missing Dimension." It was a happy accident as the book makes a few points that will help frame development of the Innovation Exchange. Based, in [...]

Posted in Book Review, Innovation | Also tagged analysis, cluetrain, interpretation, lester, piore | 4 Responses

Why don’t we pick the low-hanging fruit?

By Marc Gunther | Bio | Published: April 16, 2009

As a reporter who writes about business and the environment, I've heard the expression "low hanging fruit" used to describe energy efficiency many times. Google the words "low-hanging fruit energy efficiency" and you’ll get 57,100 hits. Maybe 57, 101 by now. I've spent parts of the last month or so helping Environmental Defense Fund write [...]

Posted in Energy Efficiency | Also tagged energy | 1 Response