Emily Reyna | February 23, 2010
According to recent article by GreenBiz, 2010 is the year for Energy Efficiency. With more awareness of and incentives for energy efficiency, companies and households alike are trying to find ways to reduce energy consumption and cut costs.
The goal of Environmental Defense Fund's Innovation Exchange is to 
encourage widespread adoption of innovations and best practices that lead to tangible environmental results. To that end, we are experimenting with an energy efficiency wiki to foster commercial building energy efficiency practices.
What is it? A wiki is a website that allows the easy creation and editing of web pages and helps a community to collaborate around a topic – in this case corporate energy efficiency.
What's it for? The purpose of the energy efficiency wiki is two-fold: 1) To serve as a starting point and reference tool for those wanting to learn how to identify, analyze and prioritize low-hanging fruit commercial building energy efficiency investments in their corporation and 2) To be a collaboration space for developing content about corporate energy efficiency.
What's on there? The wiki includes an online version of our Climate Corps Handbook which serves as a reference manual for identifying, analyzing and prioritizing energy efficiency investments in commercial office buildings and data centers, focusing on lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilating and air conditioning), office equipment, water heating and vehicles. Also available are FAQs and links to external resources.
Who can use it?
While the current content of the wiki was created for our Climate Corps Program, it's a useful resource for corporate sustainability, facility and green managers tasked with energy efficiency initiatives.
What can you do? Contribute your expertise by editing content and adding your own pages.
We hope the content of the wiki will help improve both your company and the planet. Let us know what you think!