Cleantech

Solyndra: A Venture Capitalist's View

Alison van Diggelen | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Khosla Ventures, Alison Van Diggelen, Fresh Dialogues, Venture Capital, Solyndra, Interview, Cleantech, Andrew Chung, Silicon Valley, Clean Energy, Cleantech Steven Chu, Vinod-Khosla, CleanTech Open, Green News

Andrew Chung shares his views on the Post Solyndra Era. Will the failure of Solyndra have a significant impact on private sector cleantech investment? How does Chung respond to critics who say that cleantech investment is a disaster?

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The Climate Post: After Tar Sands Pipeline Decision Delayed, Other Routes Sought

Mason Inman | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Keystone XL Pipeline, Cleantech, Canada Pipeline, Obama Keystone Pipeline, Climate Change Keystone, Keystone Cop17, Canada Keystone Pipeline, Climate Keystone, Natural Gas Pipeline, Energy Environment Pollution, Green News

The Obama administration delayed deciding whether to approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. In response, TransCanada Corp. has proposed a different route through Nebraska.

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Global Entrepreneurship Week: A Smarter World By Startups

Jonathan Ortmans | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: European Debt Crisis, United Kingdom, Startup, Kauffman Foundation, Startups, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Global Entrepreneurship Week, Europe, Cleantech, Income Inequality, Small Business America, Small Business News

What Global Entrepreneurship Week is showing us is that nascent entrepreneurs are already wired to think across borders and increasingly have more in common with each other than their own cultural elders.

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A Teaching Moment About the Green Economy

Graciela Tiscareno-Sato | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Solar Panels, Green, Cultura, Solyndra, Green Economy, Cleantech, Sustainable Business, Ecoconsulting, Clean Economy, Latino Voices News

How about you? Are you bullish on our nation's green economy? Are you working in a green industry today? If not, are you working somewhere where new green jobs could be created if certain long-standing processes were questioned and new solutions created?

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Solyndra Scandal-Mongering Is The REAL Scandal

Tom Matzzie | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Secretary Chu, Third Industrial Revolution, Congress, Jon Stewart, Washington, Renewable Energy, Obama, Department of Energy, Media, Solyndra, Cleantech, Solar Power, Republicans, Green News

The media should have spent the time to understand that the bankruptcy of Solyndra was about market circumstances that changed faster than anybody has predicted, rather than falling for a manufactured partisan scandal.

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Solyndra Was Lame and Failed, But That's Not the End of Solar

Dave Llorens | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Investments, Sustainable Energy, Government Subsidies, Green Energy, Solyndra, Solar Power, Cleantech Startups, Cleantech, Solyndra-Bankrupt, San Francisco News

Solyndra overestimated their market and their ability to deliver, and now they're going under. But guess what? This happens every single day to Silicon Valley venture capital firms.

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Apple Is Tech's Dirtiest Company: Greenpeace

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Apple Green, Green Technology, Apple Greepeace, Data Center, Renewable Energy, Google Data Center, Apple Data Center, Greenpeace, Cleantech, Apple, Technology News

Moving to the cloud could be making acid rain. While U.S. companies are not required to disclose energy information, such as carbon emissions, a ...

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Cleantech Startups Turn To Big Companies For Capital

Reuters | Nichola Groom | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Ipos, Google, Small Business, Solar, Venture Capital, Cleantech, Barclays, Initial Public Offering, Solar Energy, Germany, Startups, Clean Technology, Entrepreneurship, Asia, Small Business America, China, Cleantech Startups, Business News

Fledgling solar power companies looking to grow beyond their venture capital roots are increasingly catching the eye of deep-pocketed corporate investors.

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Why Helping Only 'Main Street' Won't Fix The Economy

Greg Becker | Posted 05.26.2011

Read More: Congress, Small Business, Economy, Main Street, Entrepreneurs, Economic Growth, Innovation, Cleantech, Obama Administration, Small Business America, Social Media, Treasury, Startups, Timothy Geithner, Gdp, Life Sciences, Entrepreneurship, Business News

All small businesses are not the same. Until this is registered and embraced by our legislators, this country will not succeed in its efforts to promote economic growth through innovation or unleash our full capacity to compete globally.

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News From the Future

Michael Moynihan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Revolution, Libya, Electricity 2.0, Fukushima, Cleantech.org, Clean Energy, Cleantech, China, Green News

While many causes have no doubt contributed to the unrest roiling the Middle East, including technology and envy of Western freedoms, a key factor, John Denniston convincingly shows, is soaring food prices.

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Venture Firms Hope High Oil Prices Will Spur Cleantech Interest

HuffingtonPost.com | Amy Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, Oil Prices, Venture Capital, High Oil Prices, Cleantech, Technology News

It takes a special kind of optimist to see spiking oil prices as an opportunity. But for venture capitalists placing their bets on renewable energ...

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Future Proofing the Boardroom: Today's Agendas

Lucy P. Marcus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Director, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Corporate Sustainability, Corporate Governance, Governance, Research, Ceos, Future Proofing, Board Room, Technology, Risk Management, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, Board of Directors, Business, Innovation, Networking, Cleantech, Stakeholders Clean Technology, Green News, Science, Business News, Non-Executive, Corporate Management, Startups, Corporate Boards, Economic Growth, Energy, Corporate, Economy, Business News

The board room agenda is going through a reformation. What are some of the essential things that boards and board members need to think about? Five areas need an update.

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Venture Capital Investing in Michigan -- Going Beyond Hand-Waving and Hopeful Hype

Jeff Bocan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Venture Capital, Jeff Bocan, Healthcare, Cleantech, The Midwest, Michigan, Beringea, Business News

Midwestern states like Michigan actually present excellent, yet overlooked, venture capital investment opportunities.

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Job for the New Congress: Read the Latest Review of Wasteful Welfare for Dirty Energy

Mike Casey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil, Energy, Fossil Energy, Subsidies, Coal, Cleantech, Green News

The new, fiscally conservative Congress could do what it has committed itself to doing -- cutting wasteful spending -- by starting with arguably the most wasteful spending of all: corporate welfare checks for the highly profitable oil and coal industries.

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Cleantech Future Threatened By Weak Venture Funding

HuffingtonPost.com | Amy Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy Venture Capital, Cleantech Venture Capital, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, Clean Energy Economy, Cleantech Funding, Cleantech Startups, Cleantech, Small Business America, Business News

NEW YORK -- The push to develop cleaner energy technologies--a widely embraced strategy for nurturing innovative new industries--is increasingly threa...

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A Perfect Storm: Global Shifts in Venture Capital and Science Funding

Lucy P. Marcus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, UK, Entrepreneurship, Public Policy, Research, United Kingdom, Science, United States, Biotech, Intellectual Property, China, Vc, Business, Engineering, Cleantech, Government, Innovation, Politics, China Energy, Group of Seven Economies, G-7, Business News, Startups, Clean Technology, India, Economic Growth, Life Sciences, US, Venture Capital, Economy, Corporate, Green News

Partly a consequence of the global financial crisis, unprecedented change in venture capital and the science sector is on the cards. And it has additional consequences too.

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Israeli Cleantech Experts Prepare For China, But Not Greenpeace

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tel Aviv, Clean Technologies, Renewable Fuel, Shimon Peres, Renewable Energy, Israel, Isaac Berzin, United States, Greenpeace, Treehugger, Cleantech, Global Warming, Greenfuel, Al Gore, China, Environment, Green News

When it comes to global warming, the U.S. thinks they are the center of the world.

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U.S. Cleantech Industry Endangered as Wall Street Sells Short

Daniel Goldfarb | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clean Energy, Competitiveness, Wall Street, Cleantech, Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs, Sputnik, Renewable Energy, Stimulus, Recovery Act, Electric Cars, Green News

The inability of Congress to extend even some of ARRA's tax breaks and grants is putting clean tech funding on dangerous ground.

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Chu: Will America Miss Its "Sputnik Moment" on Energy?

David Ferris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Chu, Obama Cleantech Strategy, Doe, US China Competition, Cleantech, Sputnik Moment, 1957, Arpa-E, Energy Department, President Obama, R&D, Energy Secretary, China, National Press Club, Green News

America is at a "Sputnik moment," Energy Secretary Stephen Chu said today. The government's next moves will determine whether the country leads the clean-tech race -- or loses it to China.

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PHOTOS: The World's Most Important Alternative Energy Companies

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Siemens AG, Alternative Energy, A123 Systems, Vestas Wind Systems, Green Energy, Cleantech, Sunpower, Cree Inc., Green Technology, Top Alternative Energy Companies, First Solar, Bloom Energy, Slidepollajax, Energy Debates, Business News

By 24/7 Wall Street: Alternative energy is big business -- and getting bigger. The industry includes hundreds of companies that make a piece of the co...

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Colorado Cleantech Is Coming of Age

Kimbal Musk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ira Ehrenpreis, Tesla Motors, Cleantech, Colorado Cleantech Industry Association, Denver News

It makes me proud to be part of the organizing team that's making the first cleantech recognition event happen in Colorado.

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Building the Regenerative City

Marc Stoiber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Urban Agriculture, Electric Cars, Sustainability, Cleantech, Socially Conscious Banks, Sustainable Cities, Green News

Sustainability could become the first megatrend of our new century. Everywhere you look, green is moving from the outskirts to downtown. But exactly how sustainable is downtown?

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Saving the Planet With the Flick of a Switch

Jeff Bocan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Led, Venture Capital, Jeff Bocan, LED Lighting, Cleantech, Venture Capitalists, Beringea, Electric Cars, Green News

I'm beginning to think that even Sarah Palin's "real Americans" are starting to get it. Granted, it is taking manmade ecological disasters like the BP...

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What Matters This Week: Russia Burns While Electric Cars Sizzle

David Ferris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Solar Panels, Kleenspeed, Solar Bug, Russia Fires, Sikorsky, GM Crops, Petermann Glacier, Sustainability, Pocono Raceway, North Dakota, Best Buy, Canola, Cleantech, Monsanto, White Zombie, Arctic, Electric Cars, Green News

We explore what works and what sucks in the business of saving the planet. News from the Northern Hemisphere is grim.

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Bankers You Can Believe In

Aron Cramer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Banking, Sustainability, Global Economy, Corporate Responsibility, Business, Cleantech, Green News

While their brethren parade to Capitol Hill, three bankers are pioneering new ways to invest in forest preservation, invent disruptive technologies for a clean energy system, and create a price on carbon.

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