Green & Sustainable Business Ventures: For Entrepreneurs & Investors
This is a fourth in a series of posts about the Cleantech Open Conference on July 22, 2010. The other three were: Electric Cars? What about Trucks and ?, Data Can Make us Greener and Location Key to Green Buildings. The “Smart Decision Making for a Dumb Grid” panel discussion highlights another theme of the [...]
For years now it seems we have been inundated with alternative ways to power our cars. Electric? Ethanol? Hybrid? Whatever choice that is in vogue right now, it seems scientists are always on the look for the next big change for fuel. In a story reported by Fast Company, one such alternative is coming from [...]
I just moved to California two weeks ago, but it didn’t take me long to learn about Proposition 23, big oil’s (aka. Tesaro and Valero) efforts to try and buy overturn — or ‘suspend”— the 2006 landmark state law that mandates big reductions in greenhouse gases, AB 32. It turns out that one of the [...]
If you didn’t read Andy Grove’s “How to Make an American Job” on Bloomberg.com, I want to bring it to your attention. Green is only one part of building a sustainable business and certainly a socially responsible one. Employment and community development are important values to optimize as well. Labor activists, social entrepeneurs, local government [...]
With all the hype about electric cars like the Fisker, the Leaf and the Volt, very little attention is being paid to the possibility of greening up heavy vehicles like trucks and buses. This is ironic, because heavy vehicles are, in some ways, a better fit for hybrid and electric technology. This is one of [...]
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