Environmental Defense Fund

The Huge Promise Of Tiny Gains In Efficiency

BY Ben SchillerFri Feb 3, 2012

Instead of reinventing our entire carbon-based economy, there might be a way to use drastically less energy simply by, well, doing our best to use less energy. READ»

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Companies Save Millions By Hiring For Corporate Sustainability

BY Gwen RutaMon Jan 23, 2012

The Environmental Defense Fund's Climate Corps places specially trained MBA students in companies for a summer to build the business case for energy efficiency. These gung-ho students have found over $1 billion in potential energy savings for their host companies, which are now creating new positions to keep the ball rolling year round.READ»

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Using Open Innovation To Bring The Gulf Of Mexico Dead Zone Back To Life

BY Gwen RutaWed Jul 13, 2011

The Iowa Soybean Association has teamed up with Environmental Defense Fund to develop farming technology. Using a new online Eco-Challenge Series, EDF and the soybean growers hope to solve some real-world environmental problems, while making farming more efficient and more profitable.READ»

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Can Open Innovation Save the Planet?

BY Gwen RutaTue Feb 22, 2011

Imagine if you could tap the brainpower of proven innovators from around the globe to help your company create its next business breakthrough and enhance its environmental record.READ»

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Green Ops for PE: A Program to Make Private Equity Firm Portfolios Sustainable

BY Ariel SchwartzThu Jan 27, 2011

How green is your portfolio? If the Environmental Defense Fund has anything to say on the matter, it's about to get a whole lot greener. READ»

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We Are All Going to Be Naked Soon: Radical Corporate Transparency

BY Gwen RutaWed Dec 8, 2010

"We are all going to be naked," says my friend Andy Ruben in an intriguing TED talk, "so you might as well get buff." Referring to transparency in the corporate supply chain, this statement is pretty radical coming from a senior executive at Walmart.READ»

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Let's Cash It in Now

BY Gwen RutaThu Oct 14, 2010

How Corporate America can create jobs and save energy.READ»

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If You Build It, We Will Come

BY Gwen RutaMon Sep 20, 2010

In "Field of Dreams," Kevin Costner's cornfield whispers, "If you build it, he will come," and sets off a series of events that change the lives of Costner and those around him. While talking corn is movie magic, the idea of expressing a desire in order to see it fulfilled is a powerful one. And if the expressed desire comes from a Fortune 500 company, it can help change the world.READ»

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Hunting for Energy Treasure

BY Gwen RutaWed Jul 28, 2010

Listen in to any conversation on our energy future, and you'll hear about smart grids, solar cells, wind turbines, even energy from algae or from ocean waves. All of these are promising technologies, but we also have a technology that we can fully deploy right now--energy efficiency.READ»

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Corporate Fuel Efficiency Seen Through a Tilt-Shift Lens

BY Ariel SchwartzTue Feb 2, 2010

Last week, we looked at some of the ways that Walmart is trying to implement fuel efficiency into its truck fleets. What if every corporation took similar steps? Hybrid trucks reduce emissions and fuel costs by 30% to 50%, and there ...READ»

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Does Wal-Mart's 2009 Sustainability Report Stand Up?

BY Ariel SchwartzTue Jun 9, 2009

When it comes to sustainability, it's hard to be the world's largest public corporation. It oftentimes means tripling or quadrupling the green efforts of other large corporations just to get the same results. And according to its ...READ»

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First Sustainable Fishing Loan Program in the U.S. Launches at Google HQ

BY Ariel SchwartzMon Mar 30, 2009

It's hard to keep that New Year's resolution to eat sustainable seafood with so many tasty endangered species on restaurant menus. But the Environmental Defense Fund's (EDF) California Fisheries Fund (CFF) could be the push that ...READ»

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Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough

BY Danielle SacksMon Oct 13, 2008

William McDonough, the godfather of green design, has been hailed by everyone from Hollywood to Silicon Valley to the Chinese government as the environmental savior. His radical "cradle to cradle" idea -- in which every product, building, and city is designed in an infinite loop with zero waste -- has earned him the Presidential Design Award for Sustainable Development. He was Time's "Hero for the Planet" and has been profiled in documentaries from Thomas Friedman's "Addicted to Oil" to Leonardo DiCaprio's "The Eleventh Hour." And yet, McDonough may in fact be paralyzing his own design revolution.READ»