Jim Conca
SEPTEMBER 28, 2013
If human life is worth $129,000 per year, and coal kills 15,000 people a year in the U.S., that means the industry gets about $37 billion in death tax credits per year.Wind's death subsidy is only a few million dollars and nuclear doesn't get any of this particular subsidy.
Cleantech Blog
DECEMBER 11, 2013
Continuing a tradition since 2007, once again we bring you some end-of-year thoughts about where we think the cleantech investment theme is going. Our cleantech-specific analysis and advisory firm Kachan & Co. focuses on this space. We publish research reports. We get briefings from companies introducing new technology. We publish a cleantech analysis service.
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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
DECEMBER 3, 2013
Posted by LisaAnn This Women in the Spotlight series features Amy Francetic, CEO of the Chicago Clean Energy Trust. She has over 18 years of operational and executive management experience in the high technology sector with specialties in cleantech and information technology. The organization is dedicated to accelerating the development of clean-energy businesses in the Midwest and works with a board of Chicago’s most powerful and wealthy investors — Nicholas Pritzker, Michael Polsky and Paula
Better Ventures
NOVEMBER 4, 2013
How much good can you do with 54 hours, a little caffeine, and a bunch of strangers? This past weekend, Hub Ventures teamed up with the Vodafone Americas Foundation to find out, in the second annual Tech For Good Startup Weekend. 85 aspiring entrepreneurs and mentors came together at San Francisco’s Impact Hub to build mobile, web, and software solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems.
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.
Eco Friend
MARCH 4, 2013
Conceived by designer Patrick Mulcahy, the Aessi Air Support detects household gas leaks like canaries used to do in a coalmine in ancient times. Moreover, it doubles as an emergency… The post Aessi Air Support detects household gas leaks, doubles as emergency solar radio appeared first on Eco Friend.
Jim Conca
DECEMBER 7, 2013
Richard Rhodes recently gave an insightful lecture at the Hanford site in Washington State for the 70th Anniversary of the Manhattan Project that provides a glimpse of what emotions, paradigms, and philosophies motivated people during the world-changing event of developing the atomic bomb. Reprinted here, the reader will be amazed at the amount of information that is essentially unknown to the public, and even many of us in the field, and that adds another layer of insight into our present nucle
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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
NOVEMBER 25, 2013
Posted by Rosana Francescato Imagine yourself in a high-status, well-paying professional job. You’re successful in your career and identified with your profession. You even enjoy a lot about your job. Yet, something doesn’t feel right. Would you take the risk of leaving the security of that job to explore what was right for you? Would you have the courage to ask for more out of your life?
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
NOVEMBER 11, 2013
Posted by Guest Contributor. Bloom Energy is an outgrowth of a NASA Mars research project to use fuel cells to sustain life on Mars. The research transferred to a commercial endeavor in 2001 as ION America. The company changed its name to Bloom Energy in 2006 and has grown to 1500 employees. Blooom’s solid oxide fuel cell technology uses common, low cost materials to generate highly-efficient power from almost any hydrocarbon fuel, such as ethanol, biodiesel, methane or natural gas.
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
NOVEMBER 4, 2013
Posted by Rosana Francescato This post was originally published on PV Solar Report. Persistence and patience are key when it comes to many undertakings in solar. That was no less true of getting in to the Professional Women in Solar Breakfast at Solar Power International. The fact that this breakfast routinely sells out attests to a couple facts: 1) There are more than a few women in solar, and 2) Women in solar feel the need to band together.
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
OCTOBER 15, 2013
Posted by Rosana Francescato Research indicates that out of six top leadership traits, many are shared equally between men and women. That is, except for one — vision. Today the leadership gap between male and female executives remains significant, and at the September 2013 WCS meeting startup CEO turned leadership coach Kate Purmal challenged that if women fail to cultivate and execute their visions in the world, it could take nearly 300 years for women to reach parity in the corporate execu
Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium
With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.
Better Ventures
OCTOBER 1, 2013
Hub Ventures is hosting a Technology for Good Startup Weekend from 12/7-12/9 that will bring together startup enthusiasts for 54 hours to build technology solutions for big social and environmental challenges. The top teams will be fast tracked to the finalist round for the Spring 2013 cohort of Hub Ventures and will receive valuable perks including Facebook Ads credits.
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
Posted by Rosana Francescato. What’s the main qualification for a job in solar? You must enjoy change. That was the consensus at the recent Women in Cleantech and Sustainability meetup “Getting a Job in Solar … and Keeping It!” A full house of WCS members at the SolarCity office had a lively discussion with the excellent panelists from a range of solar areas: Christie Cruz and Raya Zion of SolarCity , Acenia Farrand of Qbotix , and Melissa Zucker of Solaria.
Better Ventures
JUNE 3, 2013
Hear from Connor Landgraf , founder of Eko Devices about the final weeks of the program. Eko Devices believes in one thing: we believe in harnessing the power of computer assisted diagnosis for healthcare. We believe that smartphones that can utilize the enormous potential of big data and cloud technologies can reduce the costs of healthcare and improve the outcomes of patients.
Better Ventures
MAY 6, 2013
“Experience, not knowledge, is the biggest limiting factor between good doctors and great doctors.” This week we hear from Dr. Andrew Brandeis , of Share Practice. Good doctors make bad decisions because knowledge sources are broken. Medical reference tools are biased by business and insurance interests and most doctors don’t have time to read antiquated research papers.
Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor
With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.
Better Ventures
APRIL 22, 2013
We’re halfway through! This week, hear from Chris Yim of UClass. At UClass , we’re connecting classrooms around the world, to create a generation of students who possess the global competencies necessary to succeed in the 21st century. Through getting feedback from teachers, and a lot of soul-searching at our first annual company retreat at Stinson Beach, we recently repositioned ourselves from a global social network, to a social assignment platform, with an emphasis on peer review.
Better Ventures
APRIL 8, 2013
It’s week 4! Hear from Cindy Nawilis of SunFunder about the company, and what they’ve been up to these past few weeks. We at SunFunder are a small team fueled by a big mission: to catalyze $1.2 billion into 1500 off-grid solar projects and empower more than 160 million lives. Why? Because 1.3 billion people in the world still live without access to electricity, and 600 million of them have no convenient way to charge their cell phones.
Better Ventures
MARCH 25, 2013
Every 2 weeks, you’ll hear from one of the founders of our Spring13 cohort companies. They’ll tell you about what they’re working on and what’s been going on in the program so far. First up is Chris Cuellar , Co-Founder of 2ndNature. We built Arrive to ease the pain of getting around town. We are believers in access over ownership , especially with respect to cars, and are showing how life in an urban center is possible (and cheaper) without owning a car.
Better Ventures
MARCH 18, 2013
AgGrow: A stealth-mode startup building technology tools to scale sustainable agriculture Eko : A telehealth company revolutionizing the medical industry by building a mobile electronic stethoscope that connects to smart phones and provides remote diagnosis NBD Nano : A nano-scale surface to enhance water condensation and collect water in the most arid regions of the world.
Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute
The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?
Eco Friend
MARCH 2, 2013
Conceived by Italian industrial designer Stefano Filipuzzi, Lucio is a sustainable lighting solution that interacts with users to provide them emotional comfort. Awarded with a runner-up award at Sharp Design… The post Lucio: Robotic LED lighting system offers in-house comfort, safety appeared first on Eco Friend.
Eco Friend
MARCH 2, 2013
Campers and adventurers will sure like Grit, an adventure tool that utilizes extra gears from a washable shaver to support its dynamo mechanism. Conceived by Aarish Netarwala, the multipurpose flashlight/lantern… The post Meet Grit, a complete adventure gear for compulsive nomads appeared first on Eco Friend.
Eco Friend
FEBRUARY 19, 2013
Want to lower your carbon footprint by bringing down your energy consumption and save on heating costs? Folks at YSHAPE Inc have kickstarted their campaign to realize the launch of… The post YSHAPE seeks funding for its web-enabled HeatMeter energy monitor appeared first on Eco Friend.
Eco Friend
FEBRUARY 14, 2013
The Salt Lake City-based 10Terra.com has announced the release of its eco-felt sleeve for the iPad and Nexus 10. Ultra Blue features a completely new design from 10Terra and marks… The post Meet Ultra Blue, the eco friendly cover for iPad and Nexus 10 appeared first on Eco Friend.
Eco Friend
JANUARY 8, 2013
Unveiled at CES 2013, Luci is just the perfect solar lantern targeted at travelers and disaster survivors who seriously need a portable and reliable lighting solution to illuminate their way.… The post Mpowerd Luci: Inflatable, low cost, solar LED lantern for developing world appeared first on Eco Friend.
Eco Friend
JANUARY 8, 2013
Hong Kong based bioserie has introduced a diversified line of iPhone 5 covers for eco conscious Apple gadget freaks. The recently unveiled series of iphone 5 covers includes BioCover, GlassCover… The post Bioserie iPhone 5 covers integrate bioplastics with premium recyclable materials appeared first on Eco Friend.
Better Ventures
MAY 20, 2013
We’ve got just 2 weeks to go in the program! This week, hear from Zach Warder-Gabaldon from AgGrow. The global population will reach nine billion people by 2040. Industrial agriculture depletes soil for future use, introduces synthetic chemicals into food and water supplies, and with 30% of all greenhouse gas emissions, is the single largest contributor to climate change.
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