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New Models For Clean Technology Incubation and Commercialization

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...

27 oct 10

Lithium ETF Plays Growth of Electric Cars and Mobile Electronics

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...

26 oct 10

Its About China, Stupid

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...

25 oct 10

My First View of Solyndra Up Close

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...

22 oct 10

Jane Capital Partners LLC Acquires Leading Green Ecommerce Company Greenhome.com

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...

21 oct 10

Texas A&M Sustainability Day and The Aggie Green Fund

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...

20 oct 10

California Cleantech Attacked by Prop 23

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...

20 oct 10

Global Cleantech 100

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...

18 oct 10

Johnson Controls SAFT Lithium Batteries

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...

13 oct 10

A Cleantech Bloggers Home Energy Audit - The Results Are In

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...

11 oct 10

Craton Barreling Ahead

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...

11 oct 10

Cleantech Boosts Jobs in Specific Regions and Segments

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...

08 oct 10

Why I Love Solar, Even Though Ive Never Bought It

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...

06 oct 10

Following the Money

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...

04 oct 10

Can I Hate the Solar Bill of Rights and Still Love Solar Power?

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...

29 sep 10

California’s Electric Transit Ride

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...

28 sep 10

Rethinking the Jet Engine

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...

27 sep 10

Ford Wins EcoGlobe Award for Technology in Fiesta ECOnetic

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 ...

21 sep 10

Efficiency, Meet Elasticity

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 –...

20 sep 10

Electric Car Charging and Building Integrated Wind Power

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...

14 sep 10

Jeremy Grantham on Climate Change

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...

13 sep 10

A New Cleantech Taxonomy

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...

10 sep 10

10 ETFs to Capitalize on Cleantech Growth

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...

08 sep 10

The Carbon Industry Is the Unsung Hero in the Cleantech M&A

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...

08 sep 10

The Gort Cloud

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...

06 sep 10

Electric Cars get A+ from EPA

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...

02 sep 10

Solar needs a new Metric

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 ...

31 aug 10

I Am Shocked -- Shocked! -- At Green Hypocracy

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...

30 aug 10

Shell’s new $12 Billion Investment in Advanced Biofuels with Cosan

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...

25 aug 10

Why Conservatives Are Bad on Energy: Its All About the Costs

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...