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SPOTlight oncorporate partnerships“Partnering with Environmental DefenseFund gave us environmental and businessexpertise in one package.”Bob LangertMcDonald’s VP for Corporate Social Responsibility8Coal17EDF sets out to green privateequity firms, which account for10% of U.S. GDP.plants canceled, and wind powerboosted, after kkr and TPG consultus on their Texas utility purchaseKKR companies enrolled in our programto cut waste and save energy globally300,000Garbage trucks of solid wasteand 380,000 tons of air pollutioncut in our first two yearsEDF’s Climate Corps istraining tomorrow’s chiefexecutives.7Number$21million678millionof business schoolstudents in our first ClimateCorps class, 2008Investments made in energyefficiency following ClimateCorps recommendationsKilowatt hours saved annually—enoughto power 60,000 homes—if companiesimplement plans fullySpreading new ideas far and wideEDF’s corporate partnerships are designed to influence not justsingle companies but entire industries. Consider, for example, ourClimate Corps program. In 2008, EDF recruited seven adventurousMBA students, trained them in ways to improve energy efficiencyand parachuted them into corporations on summer internshipsto put their energy detective skills to work. We then promoted theirrecommendations so other companies could adopt them, too.Fast forward to the summer of 2010, when 51 Climate Corpsfellows from top-ranked business schools trained with us and wentto work at 47 of the biggest U.S. corporations—household nameslike Bloomberg, eBay, McDonald’s, Pepsi, Target, Verizon and Xerox.Before the summer was over, they had found energy savings thatFor Fiscal Year 2010, our Corporate Partnerships work is included in the Climate and Health lines of our financial statement.