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Warehouse Software is Culprit in Energy Waste

January 26, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) released a case study in which an EDF Climate Corps fellow helped the adidas Group save energy at its Spartanburg, SC, distribution center. The “Conveyor Belt to Energy Savings” case study outlined several ways the adidas Group implemented energy efficiency strategies for its material handling ... Read more »

Building Energy Case Study: Urban Innovations, Chicago

January 9, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

Urban Innovations found $70,000 in annual cost savings and over $72,000 in immediate rebates working with EDF Climate Corps. Urban Innovations, like many Class B building operators, has a diverse portfolio of properties. By tracking which buildings offered the most immediate opportunities for energy savings, the company made strategic choices ... Read more »

Building Energy Case Study: 77 West Wacker, Chicago

January 8, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

With the help of EDF Climate Corps, the facilities team at 77 West Wacker in Chicago cut its energy costs by almost 50 percent. As a Class A building, 77 West Wacker has 50 floors, 16 tenants and 959,258 square feet of rentable space. With its all-electric infrastructure, JLL business ... Read more »

JLL, Urban Innovations Save 3M kWh at Chicago Buildings

January 7, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

Two major commercial building operators – JLL and Urban Innovations – have together reduced energy usage by nearly 3 million kWh annually in Chicago, moving forward the effort to reach the City’s Retrofit Chicago Commercial Buildings Initiative’s stated goal of reducing commercial energy use in participating buildings by 20 percent ... Read more »

KKR’s Green Portfolio Companies Cut Over 2.3 Million MT of GHGs

October 21, 2014October 21, 2014 by Ken Jennison

Del Monte Foods, Sealy and US Foods are among 25 of KKR’s Green Portfolio Program companies that have avoided more than 2.3 million metric tons of greenhouse gases and achieved about $1.2 billion in cost savings and new revenue between 2008 and 2013. KKR formed its Green Portfolio Program in ... Read more »

GEMI, EDF Expand Water Efficiency Toolkit

October 8, 2014October 7, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Global Environmental Management Initiative and Environmental Defense Fund have teamed up to expand the adoption of their water efficiency toolkit for companies in water-stressed areas as drought conditions persist on the West Coast and throughout the Southwest. The EDF-GEMI Water Management Application (WaterMAPP) toolkit is a MS Excel-based, multi-tabbed ... Read more »

EDF, Smithfield Foods to Cut GHGs by 60,000 Tons

May 27, 2014May 23, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Smithfield Foods and its livestock production subsidiary, Murphy-Brown, are collaborating with Environmental Defense Fund to help farmers optimize fertilizer application to grain grown for animal feed. EDF estimates that the collaboration will reduce excess nitrogen fertilizer on more than 450,000 acres and reduce GHG emissions from agriculture by more than ... Read more »

EDF Climate Corps Announces China Debut

May 22, 2014 by Leon Walker

Environmental Defense Fund‘s Climate Corps energy efficiency fellowship has announced its expansion to China. The innovative fellowship program places energy problem-solvers from the nation’s top graduate programs into businesses, cities and other organizations in the US and now China, to save energy, reduce emissions and cut costs. This summer, EDF will place ... Read more »

USGBC, EDF Want Commercial Buildings Enrolled in Demand Response

March 3, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

A demand response partnership between the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the US Green Building Council (USGBC) reports that 133 LEED-certified buildings, representing 51 million square feet, have either enrolled in the partnership’s program, are evaluating enrollment, or have been determined to be demand response ready. The Demand Response Partnership ... Read more »

EDF Climate Corps Partners Named

January 16, 2014August 2, 2019 by William Opalka

Environmental Defense Fund named the first group of participating organizations to sign on for EDF Climate Corps 2014. New host organizations including Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Dow Chemical Company and Jackson Family Wines join veteran participants like AT&T, Shorenstein Properties, PepsiCo, Caesars Entertainment and McDonald’s. The Climate Corps is a ... Read more »

Business, UK Government Pledge to Cut Carbon in Infrastructure

November 27, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

London Heathrow Airport, construction group Skanska and energy company National Grid are among the businesses that have signed on to a joint industry and UK government initiative that aims to reduce carbon in infrastructure, which the government says could save as much as 24 million metric tons of carbon and ... Read more »

Top 100 Global Cleantech Firms Named

October 11, 2013October 11, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

LanzaTech, RecycleBank, ChargePoint and Desalitech are among the companies to make the most recent Global Cleantech 100 list and report. The fifth annual list, compiled by Cleantech Group, recognizes the companies most likely to have a significant market impact over the next five to 10 years, according to the global ... Read more »

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