A Cleantech World for Poor is Possible (and Profitable)
The distributed and micro nature of cleantech means that it has an important role to play in helping the world’s poor, especially in the areas of energy and water. In fact, cleantech in the developing...
View Article“Follow the Green Brick Road” to Recovery?
Back on September 9, John Podesta’s Center for American Progress released a study called Green Recovery, which promised two million new jobs from a $100 billion investment over two years. That day was...
View ArticleCleantech Media Survey: 2009 is Policy, Blog Year
Media covering cleantech expect to pay significant attention to policy in 2009 and they also have declared it the year of blogging and video, according to results of my first Annual Cleantech Media...
View ArticleGo “Gig” or Go Home
At the launch of the Gigaton Throwdown in DC last week, entrepreneurs and investors adopted a new metric for cleantech businesses other than internal rate of return – something called gigaton scale....
View ArticleRoundup: Cleantech Predictions for 2010
Based on the rash of predictions for cleantech in 2010 from investors, consultants and media (see the full list at the end of this post), I’ve pulled together a “trend of trends” list below that...
View ArticleWill the next Ray Anderson please stand up?
I had the pleasure of hearing Ray Anderson, CEO of Interface, at the recent Clean-tech Investor Summit. It’s always nice to get re-invigorated by a person who not only inspires through his efforts to...
View Articlemarketing monday: it’s all about the bennies
The State of Green Business (SoGB) report for 2010 has been released, and as always it dedicates a section to marketing. The basic take-away from this year’s installment was not surprising. Number one,...
View ArticleClean Energy: Too Many Interests, Not Enough Group
There is a lot of interest in clean energy. Here’s just a partial list of the US groups out there: American Business for Clean Energy, Business Council for Sustainable Energy, Environmental...
View ArticleEV to be Most Hyped News of 2011: Survey
Media covering renewable energy and cleantech overwhelmingly expect the biggest news hype of 2011 to come from electric transportation, while they identified energy efficiency as the most deserving of...
View ArticleHuman Health: the Cure for Climate Insanity?
While reading Bryan Walsh’s thoughtful review of a new book The Conundrum by David Owen, I noticed that the review was posted under TIME.com’s “health” section. The book is about energy efficiency....
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