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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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People Who Have Access To Power Meter Data Reduce Their Energy Use: Study

BY Ariel SchwartzTue May 24, 2011

The simplest way to cut down on energy use isn't to build millions of brand-new LEED-certified buildings; it's to convince people to make changes themselves. And sometimes, having access to energy consumption data--and a friendly ...READ»

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Should Environmentalists Ever Count On Their "Enemies" To Make Change?

BY Jigar ShahMon May 16, 2011

Some people fighting for climate change legislation have apparently taken the position that beggars can’t be choosers.  READ»

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Walmart Is Crushing Its Ambitious Global-Responsibility Goals

BY Ariel SchwartzMon Apr 18, 2011

In Walmart's 2011 Global Responsibility Report, we get a glimpse at just how far along the company is in meeting its ultra-ambitious goals. 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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Environmental Defense Fund Is Winning Over Walmart's Chinese Factories

BY Ariel SchwartzTue Dec 14, 2010

In 2008, Walmart set an ambitious goal: making the company's top 200 Chinese factories 20% more energy-efficient by 2012. That's a daunting task in any country, but even more so in China, where some factories don't even have electric meters. 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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Walmart Goes Solar With 30 Thin Film Installations

BY Ariel SchwartzMon Sep 20, 2010

We've watched with increasing interest in recent years as Walmart works to shed its image as a heartless corporate behemoth and makes a legitimate attempt to embrace sustainability.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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Students Find $350 Million in Savings at Bloomberg, eBay, McDonald’s

BY Ariel SchwartzTue Sep 14, 2010

Major corporations can save millions with simple energy efficiency tweaks--if they know where to look. That's where this group of MBA students can help. 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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Walmart Plans to Cut 20 Million Metric Tons of Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Supply Chain

BY Ariel SchwartzThu Feb 25, 2010

Walmart continues to impress us with its sustainable initiatives--just take a look at our slideshow listing 11 ways that the company is changing retail for good. The retail behemoth's latest innovation is a big one: a plan to cut 20 ...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»