]> http://www.greenedia.com/latest Green Business Sector - Latest Blog Articles at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/190095?rsstype=latest&cid=62 If you've been shopping, watching TV or surfing the web at all, you've undoubtedly noticed all of the companies taking their products and services green. While this is generally a good thing, we can't help but notice some brands going about it in al... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:30:48 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/inhabitat/190095?rsstype=latest&cid=62 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/eco-advantage-blog/190161?rsstype=latest&cid=62 I must have done something wrong to someone today because I feel like I'm in some kind of surreal dream. The day started well with a great event hosted by Xerox in Dallas, talking sustainability with some leaders in the field. Then I ended up in tw... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:21:35 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/eco-advantage-blog/190161?rsstype=latest&cid=62 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/189767?rsstype=latest&cid=62 By John Addison (3/8/10)Before I got behind the wheel of the Transit Connect Electric, I asked myself, Who is going to buy a battery-electric van of this size? Fleet managers of electric utilities, universities, and city delivery all came to mi... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:31:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/189767?rsstype=latest&cid=62 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/the-green-skeptic/190221?rsstype=latest&cid=62 Image by respres via FlickrLast week, I was named one of The 16 People You Must Follow on Twitter for Green Business by Earth and IndustryIt's a pretty impressive list and I am honored to be on it. (Although, I'm not sure what shooting hops is..... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:20:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/the-green-skeptic/190221?rsstype=latest&cid=62 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/189768?rsstype=latest&cid=62 by Richard T. StuebiIt's axiomatic among the cleantech community that energy efficiency represents the cheapest/easiest way to address our energy and environmental challenges. Indeed, as illustrated by some analysis by McKinsey & Company, many energy... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:44:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/189768?rsstype=latest&cid=62 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/the-green-skeptic/189658?rsstype=latest&cid=62 When Duke Energy and ENN Group announced their partnership to accelerate development of low-carbon and clean energy technologies at the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Duke CEO Jim Rogers explained that We must move at 'China speed' to com... Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:29:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/the-green-skeptic/189658?rsstype=latest&cid=62 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/silicon-valley-watcher/189353?rsstype=latest&cid=62 Facebook, Twitter, Zynga are hot companies and one day they will make hot IPOs. But what's their value?It's often difficult to put a value on private companies because their financial data is private. But you can get some sense of their value by trac... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:10:17 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/silicon-valley-watcher/189353?rsstype=latest&cid=62 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/189147?rsstype=latest&cid=62 David NiebauerA new, innovative feed-in tariff for small-scale solar development is coming to California. Rather than setting a fixed price in an environment in which technology costs appear to be dropping, the California Public Utilities Commission... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:14:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/189147?rsstype=latest&cid=62 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/the-green-skeptic/189660?rsstype=latest&cid=62 This is just to say that this has been a busy couple of weeks. We launched the Cleantech Alliance Mid-Atlantic website last week, we've been planning our 2nd Annual Mid-Atlantic Cleantech Forum, which will be held at the Academy of Natural Sciences ... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:56:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/the-green-skeptic/189660?rsstype=latest&cid=62 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/189148?rsstype=latest&cid=62 By John Addison (3/3/10 - original post at Clean Fleet Report)Energy, Water, and Fuel are three of the world's most pressing needs. Algal biofuel can have a major impact on all three observed Dr. Michael Webber in opening the recent American Associat... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:35:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/189148?rsstype=latest&cid=62 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/189149?rsstype=latest&cid=62 by John VoltzRecently, I made a small diversion from my walk to the office in San Francisco and took a ride in a Wheego. The Wheego was being showcased at JustinHermanPlaza right across from the FerryBuilding not far from my office in the heart of... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:59:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/189149?rsstype=latest&cid=62 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/189150?rsstype=latest&cid=62 by Richard T. StuebiFor as long as I can remember, Lake Erie -- and by extension, all of the Great Lakes of North America -- symbolized water pollution. Sure, it was much worse 40 years ago, when the Cuyahoga River in downtown Cleveland caught fire, ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:12:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/189150?rsstype=latest&cid=62 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/188573?rsstype=latest&cid=62 In the midst of the debate over exactly what commitments will come out of the Copenhagen Accord follow-up discussions, and how a cap and trade system to incorporate those might work, we asked long time carbon trader Olivia Fussell, the CEO of Carbon ... Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:11:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/188573?rsstype=latest&cid=62 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/the-green-skeptic/189045?rsstype=latest&cid=62 GoodCompany Ventures will announce its 2010 Venture Incubator for Social Entrepreneurs at a launch event next Thursday, March 4th from 6-8 pm in New York City. I'm excited to be moderating a conversation between some of the most prominent advocate... Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:41:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/the-green-skeptic/189045?rsstype=latest&cid=62 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/188574?rsstype=latest&cid=62 By John Addison - original article at Clean Fleet ReportGoogle Energy could be a Smart Charging and V2G ProviderGoogle finally won approval from Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to be an electric utility. Now that they are making billions ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:13:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/188574?rsstype=latest&cid=62 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/188575?rsstype=latest&cid=62 Vermonters sent a message to President Obama and the nuclear industry today, said Greenpeace's Nuclear Policy Analyst Jim Riccio. The nuclear renaissance is dead on arrival. We can retire old, decrepit and leaking reactors like Vermont Yank... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:38:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/188575?rsstype=latest&cid=62 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/189038?rsstype=latest&cid=62 Monday afternoon, the Seattle City Council announced that Seattle will aim to become carbon neutral, and explore whether it can realistically commit to hitting that target by 2030, which would make it the first carbon neutral city in the United ... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:48:28 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/189038?rsstype=latest&cid=62 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/188576?rsstype=latest&cid=62 Just on the eve of the industry headliner San Francisco Cleantech Forum, Bloom Energy finally blooms?Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) like the Bloom Box have been under development for a couple of decades, and many of the major firms both in the US and ... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:30:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/188576?rsstype=latest&cid=62 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/188577?rsstype=latest&cid=62 by Tom RooneySomething's gotten into those Gators.First, they won back to back championships in college basketball. Then they added a national football title to the mix, along with a Heisman trophy.Now the city surrounding the University of Florida i... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:08:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/clean-tech-blog/188577?rsstype=latest&cid=62 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/the-green-skeptic/189046?rsstype=latest&cid=62 Twenty years from now, we will look back on how we get energy the same way we look back at how we got information twenty years ago, Steve Cohen said in launching the first of two cleantech panels at last Friday's Wharton Entrepreneurship Conference... Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:46:00 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/the-green-skeptic/189046?rsstype=latest&cid=62