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- Soros to invest $1 billion in clean tech
- Billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros plans to invest part of his wealth on clean tech to fight global warming. Can a $1 billion help save the environment? George Soros hopes so. The billionaire financier and philanthropist plans to invest part of his wealth on...
- News items 2009-10-13
- John Doerr: How Obama can kick start 'green' innovation
- Kleiner Perkins VC John Doerr discusses his views on clean tech at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. "The most important thing" that President-elect Barack Obama needs to do, he says, is "kick-start a huge amount of innovation and research in energy." He adds, "It's the challenge for the...
- Videos 2008-11-06
- Saving money with solar tech
- It's not cheap to power a home these days. Could solar-energy tech be the solution? At the Intersolar North America exhibition in San Francisco, CNET's Kara Tsuboi finds a few products that could help bring sunshine to your wallet.
- Videos 2008-07-16
- Podcast: AlwaysOn Summit, virtual worlds, green data centers and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show I am on the Stanford University campus at the AlwaysOn Summit and David is in his headquarters outside of Boston. I give David some of the highlights from the conference, including the state of virtual worlds, social networking, green data centers and...
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- New lean, mean, green machine
- I just want to ride on my motorcycle. And now I can do it without buying gasoline. Today, CNET's Michael Kanellos looks at the progress being made in building and marketing electric motorcycles in the U.S. The photo here shows him tooling around on a Zero.Vectrix also...
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Green: tech and VC money converge
- Technology Partners announced this week, they've got a bundle of dough. And they intend to invest it in green tech and bio-tech start-ups. Today, CNET's Martin Lamonica checks in with the company. What are they seeing in the coming years?In short, they're seeing green. A long-term...
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- IBM gives mainframes a green IT wrapper
- TechRepublic's Jason Hiner reports that IBM plans to consolidate 4,000 small servers into 30 Linux mainframes.According to Jason, each mainframe is the size of a refrigerator. The benefit: IBM can save more than $250 million over five years and cut floor space 85 percent.Jason also notes that IBM is showing...
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- When a lobbyist is like a shark
- Lobbyists are exerting serious energy over energy. Money to lobbyists like blood to sharks. And the proposed changes in American energy laws could bring billions of federal money into play.Everybody from oil companies to vengture capitalists are watching this one. This evening AP is reporting there's been...
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Remember synfuels? they may be coming back
- CNET's Michael Kanellos today blogs about companies developing tech to produce synthetic petroleum. Industrial microbiology.One such company is start-up LS9. Kanellos tells us the firm intends to exploit "the properties of naturally occurring or genetically enhanced organisms." And this week LS9's presenting a paper on their...
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Xerox rolls out 'green' paper; Will you buy it?
- Xerox on Monday announced a 'green' paper that promises to cut costs and environmental impact. The paper, dubbed the Xerox High Yield Business Paper, is designed for high-volume commercial printing think bills and newspaper. But chances are good that it could be marketed to consumers at some point. The benefits...
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Your computer's making you sick
- A new study from Britain's Imperial University says your computer and other electronics could be making you sick. A London newspaper says the study's going to be published in August. The research will blame electrical charges from computers, TVs, stoves and other electrical appliances for giving people asthma,...
- Blog posts 2007-07-28
- Good news for the future
- Airplanes are a cursed blessing. They make travel over long distances possible in less time than anybody could have imagined 120 years ago. A week to take a steamer from New York to Liverpool. Sound like fun?But the curse comes with all that crud jets spew into...
- Blog posts 2007-07-27
- Ozone: too much here, too little there
- Hey folks, can we just get our ozone in balance? Seems like crystals and mantras aren't gonna do it. There's no political stigma on climate change research in Britain so they're regularly coming with up new findings.Today comes a study saying there are chmicals in the Antarctic that...
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Finding fault in Japan
- The July 16th earthquake that hit Japan's Niigata prefecture has left the country shaken: sesimically, politically, economically. There are elections for the nation's upper house on July 29.The elections could be affected by public anger and fear after the quake badly damaged the world's largest nuclear power plant, measured...
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- What's this all about?
- The purpose of this new ZDnet blog is help sort out what's happening and what's hype in the Green Tech world. Green is the key word here. It implies more energy-efficient, perhaps even environmentally friendly and presumably not overtly inimical...
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- Michael Dell talks OLPC, green IT, Vista uptake and Dell 2.0
- In Michael Dell's talk to customers and the media in New York social issues--such as the OLPC project and green IT--were front and center. Of course, Vista uptake and Dell 2.0 were also topics. Here are excerpts from Dell's chat:Dell was asked by a small business owner about the One...
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Google to get 30 percent of its power from the sun
- Google says its solar power project at its Mountain View headquarters is more than 90 percent complete. Google also projects that it will meet 30 percent of its peak electricity demand from solar panels.In its corporate blog, Google outlined that in the last 24 hours it produced 9,967 kilowatt-hours of...
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- Get ready for GBT--Green Business Technology
- Guest post: Christopher Lochhead, the former chief marketing officer at Mercury, was the driving force behind the concept of BTO Business Technology Optimization, which is about aligning IT investments deeply with business goals. Now Christopher is thinking “green,†looking at what he is called Green Business Technology GBT. In this...
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- IT giants hope to save $5.5 billion in energy costs
- A who's who list of Silicon Valley titans are joining forces to set aggressive goals to cut computer energy consumption and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The group, collectively called the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, consists of Intel, AMD, Google, EDS, EMC, Dell, HP, IBM, Lenovo and Microsoft to name a...
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- One of Microsoft's latest data centers is 1.3 miles around
- Microsoft has completed its first building at its Quincy, Washington data center and a leisurely walk around it is about 1.3 miles.That little ditty comes from Michael Manos, senior director of Microsoft's data center services unit. Manos was interviewed by Tina Wood at Channel 10.Some other key highlights from Manos: The...
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
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