Today's Date:
Friday, May 09, 2008
Green IT
May 02, 2008
If you're like most office workers, some 20 percent of the pages you print end up in the recycling or waste bin the same day. Xerox researchers have invented an erasable paper that fades after a day so it can be reused again and again.
May 02, 2008
The Palo Alto Research Center plans to launch a venture-capital-backed company that can improve solar cells' efficiency with thinner electricity-conducting grid lines. The center also hopes to commercialize a low-energy water-filtration technology, reusable printing paper and energy-management software for data centers, all in the next year.
April 17, 2008
The Clean Energy Council launches a fellowship program in the hope of moving 25 experienced executives into greentech each year.
April 10, 2008
The Clean Tech Open begins as UC Berkeley's greentech contest closes and the California Clean Energy Fund announces an angel fund. Will these efforts to seed innovation be enough?
March 18, 2008
Michael Bauer leaves BPL Global, where he was vice president, to help commercialize greentech from Oak Ridge National Lab on behalf of Foundation Capital.
February 26, 2008
The San Francisco mayor says it's time to get serious about combating climate change with greentech and advises a Cleantech Forum audience to insist on more government support -- or face a fall.
February 18, 2008
Ford Tamer, former head of Broadcom's enterprise networking group, plans to close deals in solar, energy efficiency and green IT for the Silicon Valley VC firm.
February 15, 2008
In spite of uncertainty about the fate of renewable-energy tax incentives in the United States, venture capitalists continue to bet big on greentech. Solar, lighting, cars and biogas benefit.
January 09, 2008
Environmental issues are impacting more than $100 billion in annual capital flows, according to the institute, which lays out a series of resulting new business opportunities.
December 19, 2007
Validus DC Systems picks up $10M for technology to make data centers more efficient with direct current.
September 13, 2007
Two energy-management companies score cash, showing interest in the once-slow sector is still going strong. Are more fundings waiting in the wings?
September 04, 2007
If the UN's panel on climate change is right, the greentech industry has its work cut out.
September 04, 2007
EPA estmates information-storage workhorses will need double the energy in 2012 unless they become more efficient.