Gwen Ruta

Gwen Ruta, vice president for Corporate Partnerships at Environmental Defense Fund, spearheads its work with leading multinational companies to develop innovative, business-based solutions to environmental challenges and to drive change through the corporate value chain.

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Why Environmentalists Must Work with Big Corporations
By Gwen Ruta, June 14, 2010
Even though the world is rightly castigating BP for the devastation in the Gulf of Mexico, there is still important work to be done in partnerships between environmental groups and corporations......
How Clean Energy Can Solve the Greek Finance Crisis
By Gwen Ruta, April 29, 2010
If European countries give a multi-billion euro handout to Greece to stabilize its economy, will they still be able to meet their climate commitments? It turns out that investing in clean......
Why the Media Loves Earth Day -- and Why That's Not Enough
By Gwen Ruta, April 13, 2010
Building a healthy, prosperous green energy economy sounds like the kind of thing that deserves media attention. So call me a grumpy environmentalist, but why do we have to wait for April 22 each......
What Do Environmental Groups Really Want from Business?
By Gwen Ruta, March 29, 2010
Thomas P. Lyon's latest book, "Good Cop/Bad Cop" is an attempt to answer the question that I hear all the time....
Target Aims for Greater Energy Efficiency
By Gwen Ruta, January 22, 2010
To accelerate energy efficiency, we need to capture the imagination of individuals from college dorm rooms to corporate boardrooms across the country....
When It’s Wal-Mart, How Much is Good Enough?
By Gwen Ruta, June 09, 2009
Frankly there's a lot of good and some not good enough. With Wal-Mart's release of its 2009 sustainability report today, Environmental Defense Fund, which is working with the firm on its......
New Wal-Mart Leadership: Seemingly Small Town Change Has Big Time Impact
By Gwen Ruta, February 01, 2009
Wal-Mart's new CEO Mike Duke takes the reins of the retail giant for a tenure that is likely shape the company's ultimate success or failure in achieving its ambitious environmental goals....