{"id":634,"date":"2008-09-16T12:08:19","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T17:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2008\/09\/16\/climate_corps\/"},"modified":"2008-09-16T17:07:37","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T22:07:37","slug":"climate_corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2008\/09\/16\/climate_corps\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Corps: A "Peace Corps" for Climate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SherylYou know how Peace Corps volunteers travel to developing countries offering help where it’s needed? Imagine a corps of interns working at U.S. corporations to help them reduce their environmental footprint, save energy, and save money, and you have the Environmental Defense Fund Climate Corps.<\/p>\n

Our Corporate Partnerships team placed MBA students from top business schools at five California companies: Intuit, NVIDIA, Cisco, Yahoo! and Salesforce.com, and at Crescent Real Estate in Houston, Texas. The interns spent the summer making the business case for increasing energy efficiency in company facilities. One intern found that Cisco could reduce its carbon footprint by nearly 300 million pounds and save $24 million over five years by installing smart power distribution units in their labs. For more, check out our "What We Did This Summer<\/a>" page.<\/p>\n

This post is by Sheryl Canter, an online writer and editorial manager at Environmental Defense Fund.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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