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- Labels that lie, or perhaps elide a bit
- It's time for a clever cleantech company to make a home testing kit for BPA. Maybe another one could be used by groceries that are tyring to provide truth in labelling. BPA would be biphenol-A a component of some of plastics now uibiquitous in our food packaging here in America....
- Tags: Food, Petroleum, BPA, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- Want a cleantech grant? Here's a place to search
- Law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and green research and events company Cleantech Group have assembled an online database with info about state and federal government green funding options. by Heather Clancy
- Tags: Clean Technology, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Federal Government, Litigation, Government, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- News to know: Microsoft, ICANN, Best Buy, RIM, mobile apps, Zimbra
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Richard Koman: Judge overturns $388m patent verdict against Microsoft CNET: Court reverses Microsoft patent-infringement rulin Sam...
- Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Larry Dignan, Mobile, ICANN, Dana Blankenhorn, Zimbra, Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Sales Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Sales, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Cleantech draws more investments in Q3
- Investment globally were again for the cleantech sector, markking further rebound from the beginning of this year which began glumly. Cleantech Group says total Q3 investments were nearly $1.6 billion. Overall investments in cleantech were up 10% from Q2 but still lagging compared to Q3 in 2008, just...
- Tags: Investment, Clean Technology, Cleantech Group, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Foundation of our green future
- I recently got to speak with Steve Vassallo, an exec at Foundation Capital. They're an investment firm firmly in the greentech camp. They've been in the VC business for 14 years. They don't just talk the talk, Foundation's putting their money where the matter is. The firm's...
- Tags: Foundation Capital, Florida Power & Light, Construction, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- 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
- 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
- RLtec: Encouraging Investment by Overcoming Green Fatigue
- Cleantech company, RLtec, wanted to launch its dynamic demand technology, and had to introduce a complicated technology and explain complex ideas to a non-expert audience to support its ongoing negotiations with potential partners, clients and investors. Aspectus used its strong media contacts and copywriting skills to start the campaign with...
- Tags: Media, Investment, Audience, Aspectus, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Case studies 2008-10-24
- Smart grid tech player Silver Spring receives a cool $75M
- Despite the ongoing financial meltdown, people still are throwing money around for greentech/cleantech companies. For now, at least. Silver Spring Networks, which develops Smart Grid technology, said it has received an additional $75 million in funding intended for global expansion. The investment round was led by Kleiner...
- Tags: Financial, Venture Capital, Financial Accounting, Investment, Telecom & Utilities, Finance, Financing Startups, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Something in the air: Several random wind energy updates
- It's been so still here in northern New Jersey for the past week that I can't imagine using the technology that I'm going to mention in this post. And yet the wind has been known to bend the trees in my yard, like kelp responding to a tidal surge. So,...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, mW, Wind Energy, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- News to know: Google; Typosquatting; Apple; IDF
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Garett Rogers: Google gains share again, should Microsoft give up? Christopher Dawson: Can Dell compete on cost anymore? Dancho Danchev: Typosquatting the U.S presidential...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Open Source, Security, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- When will cleantech be profitable? How about Q2, 2008!
- The world's first solar power billionaire is on a role. Not in Silicon Valley or Spain or even solar-blessed Arizona. In China. The global gold medal winner in solar profits: Shi Zhengrong, head of Suntech Power. They make photovoltaics sold the world over. Free...
- Tags: China, Spain, Stock, Photovoltaics, Clean Technology, Suntech Power, Zhengrong, Manufacturing, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Mayor: Cleantech leaders are finding their way to San Jose
- The great thing about visiting my brother and his family in San Jose is that there is almost always a business reason for me to be here. I used my latest trip ending tomorrow to catch up with the mayor of San Jose, Chuck Reed, about his city's aggressive green...
- Tags: San Jose, Leader, Clean Technology, Capital Structures, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Intel throws more money at solar technology
- Sulfurcell, which makes thin-file, electricity-generating solar modules, is the latest beneficiary of Intel Capital. The company, which is based in Munich, Germany, will use the roughly $38 million its getting from Intel to invest in expanding its production capabilities in Berlin. Actually, Intel Capital is just...
- Tags: Clean Technology, Intel Corp., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Car crash on Wall Street: many injuries and heavy losses
- Not since the financial industry did a header off the high board into a mortgage pool filled with bad paper. It's been literally weeks since an American-based business sector looked this sick. I've been trying to keep up with the bloody saga of the Detroit auto makers and...
- Tags: Car, Stock, Chrysler LLC, General Motors Corp., Wall, Sales Strategy, Mortgages, Sales Force Management, Construction, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Sales, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Solar power, no money down, could prove profitable
- You get a solar installation, you could get positive cash flow, and you pay no money down. Sounds like an offer you might read in some spam note from Bulgaria. But it's a legitimate offer from an legitimate cleantech company in California and Arizona. Solar...
- Tags: Electricity, Solar Energy, California, Arizona, Solar City, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Prices up, consumption down--market economics working for gasoline consumers?
- Yes, American gasoline prices have risen more than 30% in a year. Yes, consumption is now down in the U.S., year to year. Just under 4%. So maybe nobody ever said there was a one-to-one ratio. Bet if gasoline gets to $5 per gallon, consumption will...
- Tags: Oil Company, Alternative Energy, Gasoline, Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Grumpy old man gets happy--how can this be? Isn't the U.S. economy hopelessly doomed?
- I'm a grumpy old man. It's very easy to get really angry or completely depressed blogging about cleantech, or the need for it. From the global warming arguments to whole nations--like my own and China--stubbornly refusing to move to new technologies, this seems to be an era of...
- Tags: U.S., McKinsey & Co., Clean Technology, Energy, Conservation, Deron Lovaas, Greenness, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Rule change: we're playing corporate greenmail now
- Canada is the first to offer a ransom. The government there will give GM money if GM will keep Canadians employed. So the rush to subsidize what might be a viable efficient new car from GM...or might not be, is clearly on. It's not expected the current...
- Tags: Canada, Clean Technology, General Motors Corp., Engineering, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
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