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Posted on October 07, 2008

By Joseph RommThe New York Times Magazine has a long article on how uber-VC Kleiner Perkins is helping to jumpstart the clean-tech revolution. It is a must-read because what Kleiner and other VCs are doing -- pushing a broad spectrum of carbon-mitigating technologies out of the lab and into the market -- is some of the most important climate progress going on anywhere in the world. Venture capital is now as important if not more important than U.S. government spending on clean-tech, as I've argued. VCs invested a stunning $1.75 billion in U.S. cleantech companies in just the third quarter...

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