EDF Business

01/28/2013

COMPANIES: We're one month away from our deadline for joining EDF Climate Corps 2013. Sign up today!

We match trained students from leading business schools with companies to develop practical, actionable energy efficiency plans.

01/22/2013

LISTEN: EDF expert talks future of business, and the private sector's responsibility to create change.

Andrew Hutson, Director of Global Value Chain Initiatives at EDF talks about corporate partnerships and the opportunity here to create transformational change.

01/22/2013

Join us TODAY at 1PM for our Webinar on GreenBiz.com "Dismantling the Barriers to Energy Efficiency."

In this free, one-hour webcast, you’ll learn how your company can take its energy-management program to the next level. Leveraging experiences and insight from two Climate Corps participating companies, adidas Group and Ingersoll Rand, this webcast will discuss the common barriers that keep companie...

01/11/2013

Last chance to be included in our press release! Sign your company up now for the opportunity to save on energy.

01/08/2013

“2012 Tork Report: The Sustainability Gap” (SCA) reveals that 64% of U.S. companies surveyed have a sustainability program in place or are drafting one, up from 38% in 2011. The study also reveals that 31% of U.S. companies think sustainability has a positive impact on their bottom line.

In 2012, 64 percent of US companies said they had a sustainability plan in place or were in the midst of drafting one, up from 38 percent in 2011, according to research by hygiene and paper company SCA. In SCA’s 2012 Tork Report, titled ...

12/19/2012

Last-minute holiday shopping?

Last-minute holiday shopping?

Be sure to check out our bookstore! We've got an amazing selection of books on environmental issues (some by EDF experts!) and a portion of each sale goes to EDF.

Visit today, and do good by giving well: http://bit.ly/VQ90lM

12/18/2012

Learn how EDF Climate Corps can help your company too.

EDF Climate Corps harnesses people power to save money, energy and the environment. Powered by a new generation of leaders with the passion and skills to mak...

11/26/2012

"Unlike in the policy realm, climate change has remained an active topic in many corporate C-suites around the world." - Gwen Ruta

This election marked the first time since 1984 that climate wasn’t mentioned even once during the presidential debates. Since climate legislation hit a wall in the U.S. Senate in 2010, discussion of a solution to this pressing problem has been MIA in Washington.

11/20/2012

"We have to get the rules of natural gas right"

Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp and Mindy Lubber, President of Ceres and Director at Investor Network on Climate Risk, discuss the changing e...

10/22/2012

“Business has never had a bigger role to play in protecting the planet,” says Gwen Ruta, who directs the Environmental Defense Fund’s corporate partnerships program. “We’ve got big challenges to solve, and we need the ingenuity of the private sector to help us solve them.”

Newsweek’s annual rankings reveal the planet’s biggest protectors—and polluters.

10/16/2012

“By day two on the job, our EDF fellow saved us $100,000." - Les Holmes, Director of Real Estate at publisher Bloomberg BNA.

EDF concludes 2012 Climate Corps summer