Slow news day edition.
  • SunPower locks it in to lock it down. At the end of last week SunPower announced a 3 GW polysilicon supply agreement with Jupiter Corp., the sales office of Qingdao DTK, a subsidiary of California Beef Noodle King. Just kidding. The supply agreement kicks off in 2010 and runs through 2016. Qingdao DTK will build a new polysilicon plant in - where else? - Qingdao, China to meet the contract and will source the output to SunPower's ingot suppliers. SunPower now has a deeper bench than the '86 Chicago Bears.

  • Ever the go-getter, Monsanto is not content with merely controlling the world's food supply through its pursuit of patent infringement lawsuits against small farmers in developing countries. Computerworld announced recently Monsanto was one of its top 12 green IT companies for 2007. The IDG property cited Monsanto's efforts in building green data centers while simultaneously crushing the will of over 2 billion people annually. Mark Showers, Monsanto CIO, said the company's next mission was to capture methane from the pig species whose genes the company owns.

  • Who doesn't love that dirty water? Boston and Cambridge took third and sixth, respectively, on a list of greenest cities in the U.S. Despite all the hot air emitted over the MIT campus, Cambridge was recognized for its new construction standards and public mobility plans. Boston was recognized for capturing Kendall Square's emissions and turning it into liquid fuel to power Manny Ramirez's fleet of barbecue grills.

  • Proving once again that VCs don't get their investments, the GTM crew received an email this morning from Israel Cleantech Ventures, announcing the closing of a $10 million A round by Pythagoras Solar, a "low concentration solar" startup. Less than two hours later, we receive a follow up email stating "'low concentration solar' is not an accurate description of Pythagoras Solar." Because... low concentration solar, really? Is that like little men with magnifying glasses? Anyway, I'm sure they're better than some other concentrated PV companies we've been hearing about. Just don't ask them for the square of the hypotenuse.

  • And finally today... Your moment of Ben.
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