Blog Archive by Author: EDF Climate Corps Fellow

This blog post is the 16^th in a series, highlighting our team of ‘sledgehammers’ – the 2012 EDF Climate Corps fellows– and their plans for breaking down the barriers to energy efficiency at their host organizations. In this segment, hear stories from fellows at the Smithsonian Institution and Belk.

This blog post is the 14^th in a series, highlighting our team of ‘sledgehammers’ – the 2012 EDF Climate Corps fellows– and their plans for breaking down the barriers to energy efficiency at their host organizations. In this segment, hear stories from fellows at Volvo Mack Trucks, Ocean County and Booz Allen Hamilton. 

This blog post is the 12^th in a series, highlighting our team of ‘sledgehammers’ – the 2012 EDF Climate Corps fellows– and their plans for breaking down the barriers to energy efficiency at their host organizations. In this segment, hear stories from fellows at Town of Cary, Philadelphia Housing Authority, City of Cleveland, Wakefern Food Corp. and City of New Haven. 

This blog post is the 10^th in a series, highlighting the 2012 EDF Climate Corps fellows– and their plans for breaking down the barriers to energy efficiency at their host organizations. In this segment, hear stories from fellows at  Ingersoll Rand, Housing Authority of El Paso and America's Cup Event Authority. 

This blog post is the eighth in a series, highlighting the 2012 EDF Climate Corps fellows– and their plans for breaking down the barriers to energy efficiency at their host organizations. In this segment, hear stories from fellows at Texas A&M University Kingsville, HCA Healthcare and RBS Citizens Financial Group. 

This blog post is the sixth in a series, highlighting the 2012 EDF Climate Corps fellows– and their plans for breaking down the barriers to energy efficiency at their host organizations. In this segment, hear stories from fellows at Boeing and Fidelity Investments. 

This blog post is the fourth in a series, highlighting the 2012 EDF Climate Corps fellows– and their plans for breaking down the barriers to energy efficiency at their host organizations. In this segment, hear stories from fellows at The City of New Orleans, Cummins and the United Nations Children's Fund.

This blog post is the second in a series, highlighting the 2012 EDF Climate Corps fellows– and their plans for breaking down the barriers to energy efficiency at their host organizations. In this segment, hear stories from fellows at New York City Housing Authority, National Geographic Society and News Corporation. 

Shorenstein Properties
is a real estate company that manages more than 25 million square feet
of commercial building space across the United States. As the
Sustainability Program Manager here at Shorenstein (and an EDF Climate
Corps alum), efficient energy use across this portfolio remains top of
mind for me.

Fellow: Jason Sekhon, 2012 EDF Climate Corps fellow at Pfizer Inc., MBA/MS candidate at University of Michigan Erb Institute

Organization: Pfizer Inc.

Opportunity: Over 100,000 employees at the world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company

Summary: Pfizer is already well on its way to company-wide sustainability, and I'm glad to be contributing by writing employee engagement plan and EnergyStar strategies.

Fellow: Jennifer Le, 2012 EDF Climate Corps
fellow at The Carlyle Group, MBA Candidate at the Samuel Curtis Johnson
Graduate School of Management at Cornell University

Organization: The Carlyle Group

Opportunity: The Carlyle Group is a global alternative asset manager with more
than $156 billion in assets under management across 99 funds and 63 fund
of funds vehicles.

Fellow: Meredith Rowland, 2012 EDF Climate Corps Fellow at Lane College, MPA candidate at Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Organization: Lane College

Opportunity: An energy efficient future for a 130-year-old academic institution.

Summary: Infrastructural barriers within an organization often prevent employees from pursuing innovative energy efficiency projects. As a Climate Corps fellow at Lane College, I acted as catalyst for change among campus stakeholders.

Fellow: Michael Norbeck, 2012 EDF Climate Corps fellow at Cummins Inc., MPA Candidate at Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Opportunity: Energy use and CO2 emissions from a global portfolio of over 600 facilities

Summary: You’re a multinational engine manufacturing company that has set ambitious enterprise-wide targets for energy intensity and CO2 emissions reduction. Facilities are a key component of your energy footprint, and therefore your carbon footprint as well. How do you drive the energy management performance you need to meet your targets? Start by understanding how your facilities are using energy, and why.

Fellow: Andy Perkins, 2012 EDF Climate Corps Fellow at LBA Realty, MBA Candidate at Yale University School of Management

Organization: LBA Realty

The Opportunity: 39 million square feet of industrial and commercial real estate

Summary: In the world of commercial real estate, Net Operating Income (NOI) is everything. Its focus on operational efficiency and driving down costs is the measuring stick by which a building's value is determined. It drives the entire industry. I discovered that LBA could improve the NOI of its future energy efficiency projects by creating a standard process for vetting vendor proposals.

Fellow: Katie DeWitt, 2012 EDF Climate Corps fellow at National Geographic Society, MBA candidate at University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business

Organization: National Geographic (Nat Geo)

Opportunity: A decade of experience in sustainable and energy-efficient operations

Summary: On my first day at National Geographic (Nat Geo), I was given a tour of the company's extensive sustainability infrastructure. It was immediately clear that my challenge as an EDF Climate Corps fellow wasn't to convince the operations staff the value of energy efficiency, but to identify additional eco-business opportunities for Nat Geo.

Fellow: Alicia Cushman, 2012 EDF
Climate Corps Fellow at The JBG Companies, MBA Candidate at the
University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business

Organization: The JBG Companies (JBG)

Opportunity: 9.2 million square feet of commercial real estate space and one eager MBA student

Summary: “A Whole Different Kind of Innovation
(Wall Street Journal, June 18th)," declares that business model
innovation is "crucial to meeting the challenges associated with energy
use," perhaps even more so than technological innovation. Naturally, as
an EDF Climate Corps fellow working with The JBG Companies this summer, I had a few thoughts of my own on the matter.

Fellow: Jana Holt, 2012 EDF Climate Corps
Fellow at Au Bon Pain, Dual MBA/MEM Candidate at The Fuqua School of
Business, Duke University.

Organization: Boston’s A Better City Challenge for Sustainability (ABC)

Opportunity: “The private sector has the
ability to influence social change on the larger community quickly and
efficiently. A Better City Challenge for Sustainability is designed to
leverage this ability and make Greater Boston a leader in sustainable
business practices.” – ABC’s Web site

Summary: Jana Holt presented EDF Climate
Corps and the wisdom of energy efficiency to members of Boston's A
Better City Challenge earlier this month. Her favorite part? The two-way
street of sustainability education she's now a part of.

Organization: Quality Technology Services (QTS)

Opportunity: 3 million square feet of data center space

Challenge: Data centers require plenty of energy

SUMMARY: QTS announced yesterday it hired Sukrit Sehgal,
QTS’s 2011 EDF Climate Corps fellow, as its first ever director of
sustainability. Even more exciting (for me!), is that QTS hired me as
its second EDF Climate Corps fellow to drive further steps toward energy
efficiency this summer. In addition to conventional data center energy
challenges, QTS also faces entirely unique challenges due to the nature
of its service as a multi-tenant data center (MTDC) provider.