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- Green boom busted?
- The global outlook for clean tech energy investment is gloomy. A report by the International Energy Agency IEA finds that investing in alternative energy is slumping. The IEA expects green energy investment to fall below the 2007 level, far off of last year's record topping $80-billion US. ...
- Tags: International Energy Agency, Renewable Energy, Clean Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- The future of clean-tech investing [video]
- At the Greentech Media and Groom Energy, Enterprise Carbon Accounting Summit in Burlingame, Calif., venture capitalists discuss the outlook of investing in smart grids, carbon management, and energy-monitoring tools. At debate is how to invest capital in an efficient way. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Video, Clean Technology, Venture Capital, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- The future of clean-tech investing
- At the Greentech Media and Groom Energy, Enterprise Carbon Accounting Summit in Burlingame, Calif., venture capitalists discuss the outlook of investing in smart grids, carbon management, and energy-monitoring tools. At debate is how to invest capital in an efficient way.
- Tags: Clean Technology, Venture Capital, Productivity, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Enterprise Carbon Accounting Symposium, mart grids, carbon management, energy-monitoring tools
- Videos 2009-05-15
- Green-tech design tool helps clean-tech designer
- It wouldn’t be very green of a clean-tech company to waste lots of materials while designing and developing and testing its product, would it? Autodesk sure doesn’t think so. The well-established CAD software company continues to reposition some of its core 3-D products as great tools for...
- Tags: Autodesk Inc., Clean Technology, Tool, Ocean Treader, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- Greentech investments continue, but declining
- A survey found considerable greentech investments around the world for Q1, 2009--the same Q1 that had stock markets dyspepsic, investors shy, and governments throwing money at every shadow that moved. The Cleantech GroupT, along with Deloitte, have just released preliminary 1Q09 results for clean technology venture...
- Tags: Investment, Clean Technology, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-04-01
- Clean Tech non-profit seeks green-tech start-up ideas
- If you've got the guts to develop a business plan right now, the goodly folks at non-profit Clean Tech Open are willing to take a risk on you. The organization is running its fourth annual competition for business plan ideas and is accepting entries in the categories of Air, Water...
- Tags: Clean Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- Forced to think about a career change? Here are some greentech job links
- One of the best Christmas gifts that my husband and I could have received came in the form of news last night from one of his childhood friends that she's going to be starting a new job after the New Year. She has been out of work for several months...
- Tags: Job, Compensation, Clean Technology, Professional Development, Benefits, Recruitment & Selection, Career, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-24
- The Green Enterprise: PARC VP: Lowering costs with clean tech
- Scott Elrod, VP of the hardware systems lab at PARC, says that lowering costs is key in clean tech. By looking at their ink jet technology and applying it to solar cells, the company was able to come up with a lower price per wattâ€"making solar an even more cost-effective...
- Tags: Inkjet Printer, VP, Xerox PARC, Clean Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Lowering costs with clean tech
- Scott Elrod, VP of the hardware systems lab at PARC, says that lowering costs is key in clean tech. By looking at their ink jet technology and applying it to solar cells, the company was able to come up with a lower price per wattâ€"making solar an even more cost-effective...
- Tags: Inkjet Printer, Clean Technology, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- PARC VP: Lowering costs with clean tech
- Scott Elrod, VP of the hardware systems lab at PARC, says that lowering costs is key in clean tech. By looking at their ink jet technology and applying it to solar cells, the company was able to come up with a lower price per watt—making solar an even more cost-effective...
- Tags: Inkjet Printer, VP, Xerox PARC, Clean Technology, clean tech, solar, PARC
- Videos 2008-12-02
- San Jose mayor announces 'green' award recipients
- At a press conference in San Jose, Calif., Mayor Chuck Reed announces the winners of the inaugural Green Vision Innovation awards. The awards are designed to motivate companies to set up clean-tech businesses in the city of San Jose, bringing new green jobs with them.
- Tags: San Jose, Clean Technology, Green, Jobs
- Videos 2008-11-11
- Memo to the President-elect: Environmental responsibility and economic revitalization go hand-in-hand
- No matter their political affiliation, most people who have an opinion about what President-elect Barack Obama should do first after he’s sworn into office point to the country’s economic identity crisis as his first order of business. And given how much the latest jobs report rattled the...
- Tags: Job, Clean Technology, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-08
- Clean Tech Open entrepreneurs win big
- In a relatively inhospitable economy for tech start-ups, the Clean Tech Open and its six $100,000 cash prizes are like oases in the desert. CNET's Kara Tsuboi reports from the 2008 awards show in San Francisco which celebrated the best clean and green technology companies struggling to stay afloat.
- Tags: Clean Technology, News, kara tsuboi, clean tech, green solar, led, eco friendly, environment
- Videos 2008-11-07
- Another bit of positive green investment news. Smart grid is again the focus.
- More positive news on the clean-tech investment front announced before the market meltdown but significant nonetheless: Another smart-grid player, GridPoint, is using at least some of its $120 million in recently raised equity financing to buy V2Green, which sells technology for integrating infrastructure for supporting plug-in electric hybrids with the...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Grid, Clean Technology, Hybrid, GridPoint, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Video: Vinod Khosla: 'It's about main tech, not clean tech'
- Video: Vinod Khosla: 'It's about main tech, not clean tech'The weapon of choice on the war on coalKhosla accurately points out coal is base load power, and the replacement of coal is not simple. Coal represents about 60% of U.S. power generation, all of it base load.Nuclear is the...
- Tags: Corporate communications, video, Vinod Khosla, coal, clean technology
- Discussion threads 2008-09-18
- Video: Green tech grabbing VC greenbacks
- At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., Ira Ehrenpreis of Technology Partners discusses the current market landscape for clean-tech investing. He says clean tech used to get 1 percent of all venture dollars and that today, it is attracting between roughly 10 percent and 14 percent of all venture...
- Tags: Green Technology, Video, Clean Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Green tech grabbing VC greenbacks
- At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., Ira Ehrenpreis of Technology Partners discusses the current market landscape for clean-tech investing. He says clean tech used to get 1 percent of all venture dollars and that today, it is attracting between roughly 10 percent and 14 percent of all venture...
- Tags: Green Technology, Clean Technology, Green
- Videos 2008-09-17
- Tesla plans San Jose manufacturing site for electric car
- San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed has convinced green car maker Tesla Motors to build a proposed $250 million facility in north San Jose, adding approximately 1,000 clean-tech jobs to his community by 2010. The deal will be disclosed today during a press conference in California. The first...
- Tags: Car, San Jose, Clean Technology, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, Clean-tech Job, Mayor Reed, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Video: Vinod Khosla: 'It's about main tech, not clean tech'
- At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures offers his views on environmental challenges facing the world and how clean tech needs to deliver real results. He also criticizes the current green movement as more about style than substance. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Video, Clean Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Vinod Khosla: 'It's about main tech, not clean tech'
- At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures offers his views on environmental challenges facing the world and how clean tech needs to deliver real results. He also criticizes the current green movement as more about style than substance.
- Tags: Clean Technology, Green
- Videos 2008-09-17
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