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By Victoria MillsEven in our electronic age, paper is still with us. It brings us our morning news (some of us still arrive at work with ink-stained fingers), great literature and gossip magazines,...
View ArticleThe Starbucks Cup Summit: Rethinking the Recycling System
By Victoria MillsWhen I got the invitation to Starbucks’ second Cup Summit in April, I was struck by the ambitiousness of the agenda. According to the email, the purpose of the meeting was to help the...
View ArticleEDF Climate Corps: Building a movement for energy efficiency in business
By Victoria Mills This summer, 51 Climate Corps fellows will take their places on the front lines of a new movement for energy efficiency in business – a movement grounded in smart economics and fueled...
View ArticleThese Are the Champions … of Energy Efficiency
By Victoria Mills Consider these numbers: $350 million in net operating savings over the project lifetimes. 400,000 metric tons of annual greenhouse gas emissions. More than 650 million kilowatt...
View ArticleShining a Light on Energy Efficiency: EDF Climate Corps reflects on three...
By Victoria MillsAs any energy manager knows, it’s one thing to find energy-saving projects that are worth doing, and quite another to get them implemented. Over the last three years, EDF Climate...
View ArticleReasons to be cheerful: EDF Climate Corps finds $650 million in energy savings.
By Victoria MillsBy: Victoria Mills, Managing Director of Corporate Partnerships for EDF, and Michael Regan, Director of Energy Efficiency, EDF Recent headlines paint a gloomy picture of our economy,...
View ArticleEDF Climate Corps Turns Five, Continues to Surprise
By Victoria MillsIf Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world. With over 900 million users, the social media site now has a market valuation of $104 billion – all because of a...
View ArticleEDF Climate Corps Turns Over a New Leaf
By Victoria MillsToday, Environmental Defense Fund launched a new class of EDF Climate Corps fellows to catalyze energy savings in organizations around the country. This year’s class is bigger than...
View ArticleEDF Climate Corps – Creating a New Generation of Leaders
By Victoria MillsIn his State of the Union Address last night, President Obama offered a new twist on the customary pronouncement on the nation’s health, saying “it is you, our citizens, who make the...
View ArticleEnvironmental Lessons from the Super Bowl: Set Big Goals and Play to Win
By Victoria MillsPhoto by birddogger – Charlie Bird on Flickr We'll hear plenty of amateur quarterbacking about this year’s Super Bowl, but there’s a lesson from the game that applies equally to sports...
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