I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Richard Marks, founder of EnVironmental Transportation Solutions, for many years now. His dream is to offer an affordable and versatile low-speed electric vehicle for urban/intra-community use called the EcoV, and let me tell you, …
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Clever Smart Grid Start-up
Khosla Ventures recently led a round of $5 million in financing for Bidgely, a smart grid start-up that “disaggregates” data from a customer’s smart meter. Now, for instance, household members can be told, “That old refrigerator is costing you $148 …
Venture Beat Green: Who's Successfully Raising Capital for Cleantech Start-ups?
Heeding my own advice and “following the money,” I like to check out Venture Beat Green every week or so, to see who’s successfully raising capital for cleantech start-ups. Here’s a story about SolSource, a company that used crowd-funding (KickStarter), …
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Energy Storage, The Power Grid, and Solar Energy
Regarding the suggestion for a huge international effort to develop solar energy, Deon Deetlefs writes on the 2GreenEnergy Facebook page: Always good to see, but when are we going to place more emphasis on the storage of power rather than the …
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The U.S. Declaration of Independence
According to the Writer’s Almanac, today is the anniversary of the official signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. They write: “It was introduced as a resolution by Richard Henry Lee, a delegate from Virginia on June 7, 1776 — …
Cost of Climate Change Has Hidden Line-Items
While readers may have found our recent discussion of the cost of climate change to be interesting, I hope no one believes that humankind has its wits fully wrapped around this. Here’s an article that points out a cost item …
An International Effort to Develop Solar Energy
Now here’s a guy with the right idea: a concentrated effort, performed on an international scale, to develop solar energy and combat global climate change. Obviously, this is what I’ve been calling for fairly constantly for years, but this fellow …
Electric Vehicle Competitors to BMW's i3
From the 2GreenEnergy Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/2GreenEnergy, Robin Babicek, one of our 3238 “friends,” commented on yesterday’s post on the BMW i3 (electric vehicle): 1. It’s ugly. 2. Battery range puts it alongside other EVs such as the LEAF. While this …
From Guest Blogger Paula Sheamus: Grow Your Own Vegetables–Organic Gardening
Have you ever wondered how the vegetables at your local grocery store always look picture-perfect, even if the given vegetable is out of season? Well, most commercially grown vegetables are the subject of instance chemical treatment as well as genetic …
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Plenty of Splash for BMW’s i3 Electric Vehicle
I love virtually everything about BMW’s i3 battery-electric vehicle – except that it won’t be available for another year. I hate to say it, but I’m mildly resentful of the fanfare that the company is generating, 12 full months in …
