EDF Climate Corps Blog: Posts from EDF Staff
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EDF’s private equity work highlighted in Environmental Finance
EDF Staff | 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...
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Join GEMI's EDF Climate Corps Webinar Featuring Carnival Corporation and Union Pacific
EDF Staff | January 30, 2013
With the deadline quickly approaching to apply for an EDF Climate Corps fellow in 2013, GEMI invites you to join a webinar about how and why to get involved in EDF Climate Corps on Wednesday, February 6 at 10am EST.
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Join EDF, adidas Group, Ingersoll Rand January 22 for a GreenBiz Webinar
EDF Staff | January 3, 2013
The EDF Climate Corps Team invites you to join us in ringing in this new year efficiently on our GreenBiz Webinar "Dismantling the Barriers to Energy Efficiency."
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Join us for our EDF Climate Corps Webinar "Harnessing People Power to Save Energy"
EDF Staff | December 6, 2012
Join us for a Webinar on Thursday, December 13 at noon EST to explore key learnings from EDF about how large organizations have overcome common barriers to investing in energy efficiency.
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EDF Energy Innovation Series Feature #13: Building Interaction and Reimaging Innovation From e7
EDF Staff | November 12, 2012
Throughout 2012, EDF's Energy Innovation Series will highlight around 20 innovations across a broad range of energy categories, including smart grid and renewable energy technologies, energy efficiency financing, and progressive utilities, to name a few. This series will demonstrate that cost-effective, clean energy solutions are available now and imperative to lowering our dependence on fossil fuels. Find more information on this featured innovation here.
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EDF Unveils "Virtuous Cycle" Roadmap for Organizational Energy Efficiency
EDF Staff | October 9, 2012
In the past five years, EDF Climate Corps has worked deep within more than 100 leading companies to cut energy costs and curb carbon emissions. Along the way we've tracked and analyzed what does and doesn't work, reporting the common barriers to energy efficiency that we encountered and the most powerful strategies for breaking them down.
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EDF Heads to RILA
EDF Staff | September 18, 2012
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Big Data – Launch Pad For Big Ideas
EDF Staff | July 20, 2012
By: Andy Darrell
When the internet came along, it transformed our relationship to big data – unleashing innovation, markets and, yes, funny dog videos at a global scale. “Big data” is all the rage these days in the energy sector, as investors, utilities and consumers wake up to what smart use of data can do for them.
A few weeks ago, I posted about Clean Heat – a project in which organizing data about buildings attracted nearly $100 million to finance upgrades to cleaner heating systems. If we can cut soot pollution from heating oil in New York City 50% by 2013 with the power of open data … what opportunities might be out there at even bigger scales?
This week, EDF teamed up with the White House, Google and HonestBuildings to pull together a “data jam” at Google’s New York City headquarters in the impossibly hip meatpacking district of Manhattan. Todd Park, U.S. Chief Technology Officer, kicked of a brainstorm among tech entrepreneurs, energy experts, finance whizzes, web designers and government agencies, to answer this question: if government makes its energy data open and computer-friendly, what could entrepreneurs invent to “improve energy outcomes for families and businesses?”
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Invest to Grow: EDF’s newest report highlights the opportunities created by the strategic investments behind California’s landmark emissions reduction program
EDF Staff | July 16, 2012
Over the past 20 years, the unprecedented growth and resiliency of California’s clean and efficient economy has continued throughout economic recessions and budget crises – even while many other sectors of the economy have shrunk. This growth has created a statewide infrastructure of companies providing the products and services that are at the heart of the transition towards a lower carbon economy envisioned by California’s landmark climate law.
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Are We Entering the Post-Green Team Era?
EDF Staff | July 16, 2012
Are we on a path that moves us beyond volunteer green teams onto one in which sustainability is so deeply embedded into corporate culture, goals and business practices that every job is a “green job”? Or is employee engagement just another “to do” for already over-stretched sustainability teams?