By Sanford SelmanWe live in an age of intense global competition for more sustainable ways of providing food, water, energy and transportation to a growing population against a backdrop of diminishin...
By John Addison (10/26/10)You may be reading this article thanks to the lithium battery in your notebook computer, smartphone, or other mobile device. Demand for lithium is forecasted to double in th...
by Richard T. StuebiIn the energy sector, its becoming increasingly clear that the name of the game -- whatever game you wanna talk about -- is China. My favorite recent contribution to this strain o...
Solyndra CIGS Panels on South Houston HighI had a chance to see my first Solyndra solar panels in action today. Three organizations run by friends of mine, HARC, Ignite Solar, and American Electri...
Jane Capital Partners LLC Acquires Leading Green Ecommerce Company Greenhome.comGreenhome.com’s ecostore is the market leader for online sales of green and environmental products The acquisition prov...
I had a chance to stop in at the Campus Sustainability Day at my alma mater, Texas A&M today. It was great to see all the activity. We definitely didnt have such when I was in sc...
California is World’s Third Biggest Oil ConsumerOver 95 percent of California transportation is fueled by petroleum. Electric light-rail, CNG buses and trucks, ethanol blended in gasoline make up the...
by Richard T. StuebiThis past week in New York, at its annual East Coast investor forum, the Cleantech Group released its 2010 Global Cleantech 100, profiling the private cleantech companies that a s...
By John Addison (10/12/10)AT&T (T), Xcel Energy (XEL), Johnson Controls (JCI), Southern California Edison (SCE), and New York Power Authority have all ordered Ford Transit Connect Electric. These...
A few weeks ago I blogged a very bad experience trying to get an energy audit done on my home. The vendor, Standard Renewable Energy, part of Gridpoint, just didnt do the job. After our b...
by Richard T. StuebiBeing a senior advisor to the firm, I attended last week’s annual meeting of Craton Equity Partners, a cleantech private equity fund manager based in Los Angeles.While cleantech i...
By John Addison (10/7/10)Energy efficiency, renewable energy, and information technology are all helping the U.S. overcome a severe recession and keep more people from losing their jobs. From our San...
My article last week was entitled Can I Hate the Solar Bill of Rights and Still Love Love Solar? The comments back ran the gamut, including posters ripping me suggesting I must have oil company...
by Richard T. StuebiI get a kick when climate skeptics decry the work of climate scientists by claiming that the scientists are only in it for the money. Get real.The real money is in opposing climat...
by Neal DikemanA few of you may have run across the Solar Bill of Rights Petition thats floating around the web. I was really excited at the idea, until I read it. For a good environmenta...
By John AddisonPeople take hundreds of million electric rides each year in California. The big news is not the electric car drivers or those happily screaming on Disneyland rides; the larger story is...
by Richard T. StuebiSince their discovery and invention in the early 1940s, jet engines have experienced dramatic improvements in thrust, reliability, emissions and efficiency. However, the basic tur...
Ford wins a major environmental award for its new technology that makes engines more efficient and uses some hybrid technology, such as auto-start-stop and braking regen energy without the cost of a ...
by Richard T. StuebiI sometimes receive criticism for not sufficiently promoting energy efficiency as a means of reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. I don’t think that the criticism is justified –...
By John Addison (9/14/10) Greenway Self-Park is Chicago’s new 11-story parking structure is the world’s first to combine integrated wind power, electric car charging, and two car sharing services wit...
Richard T. StuebiJeremy Grantham is one of the worlds most successful investors, over a very long period of time. He founded Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo in 1977, which now manages $100 billion of capi...
Classic definitions of cleantech, and the industries under its umbrella, have gotten long in the tooth. The sector has changed, and taxonomies havent kept up. Why is a clean technology taxonomy impor...
Clean Technology and Clean Transportation Growth Members of the cleantech community follow the success of public companies in energy efficiency, renewable energy, and electric transportation. Some pe...
Voices from the cleantech venture sector whine at least once a quarter about lack of M&A activity. In carbon that hasnt been the case this year (though only a handful of US venture capitali...
by Richard T. StuebiA few weeks ago, I was pointed to something called The Gort Cloud. Ive been to the website, and cant wrap my head around it.As best as I can tell, it seems to be a social networki...
By John Addison (9/2/10 from original post at Clean Fleet Report) New Proposed Stickers When you go shopping for a new car it is useful to see a quick summary of fuel economy, how much you might save...
I just read a very interesting article from Motley Fool on the oversupply of solar in the marketplace that is predicted in 2011. The article went on to try to compare the competitive position of the ...
by Richard T. StuebiIn todays world, its easy to claim being "green". You can recycle, you can drive a Prius, you can have solar panels on your house, you can install CFLs in every light sock...
By John Addison (8/25/10) original post at Clean Fleet ReportShell (NYSE: RDSA) and Cosan (NYSE: CZZ), one of the world’s largest sugarcane ethanol companies based in Brazil, signed binding agreement...
By Tom Rooney, CEO SPG SolarConservatives, lets talk about energy. And why so many conservatives are so wrong -- so liberal, even -- on wind and solar energy. Lets start with a recent editorial...
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