Just a quick reminder about tomorrow’s webinar at 10:30 AM PDT (1 PM EDT). Our September webinar, featuring my friend and colleague Andy Lower, Executive Director of The Eleos Foundation. Eleos is a dynamic non-profit, that, through its for-profit subsidiaries, …
Category: Renewables – Business
Webinar Reminder – Eco-Capitalism
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Many Different Industries Should Be Interested in the Clean Energy "Corporate Role Models" Blog
I began to write a private email to my colleague Stephan Williams who is helping out with our “Corporate Role Models” blog, when I realized there is really nothing private about it at all. Here are notes on the industries …
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FedEx Chairman Fred Smith on Energy, Environment, World Trade
Here’s a recently recorded hour-long interview with Fred Smith, CEO and Chairman of FedEx. He’s always impressed me with his extremely astute viewpoints on world trade. Obviously, I’m not as appreciative of his anti-regulation position as it applies to environmental …
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ARPA-E and Stimulus Money for Cleantech
Here’s a good article in The Atlantic on the ARPA-E, the mechanism the federal government uses for dispensing stimulus money for clean (and not-so-clean) energy projects. It’s based on an interview of veteran Time Magazine writer Michael Grunwald, whose book …
Distributed Generation Holds Promise, Faces Challenges
Those of us who maintain optimism for a future than includes sustainable practices in energy generation place a great deal of hope in “distributed generation” – the concept in which the model of buying electricity from huge utilities becomes increasingly …
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Quantifying CleanTech Startups
Yesterday I had the pleasure of providing an interview for one of the key researchers of the Germany-based think-tank Borderstep Institute. Their mission: Through scientific and applied research, the Borderstep Institute contributes to future-oriented solutions and innovations that are economically …
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Stephan Williams — Clean Energy Author
A gentleman by the name of Stephan Williams contacted me recently and asked if he could write some blog posts, communicating his ideas on renewable energy. Of course, the answer was yes. And after speaking with Stephan on the phone, …
Ocean Wave Energy Project
Here’s a project invoking ocean wave energy off the cost of Oregon in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. I understand that getting a permit to put an energy-extracting device into moving water is anything but a slam dunk, so the …
22 Clean Energy Business Plans for Your Consideration
The list of clean energy business plans I support has reached 22 items in length – an all-time record. Each of these, in my estimation, represents a real breakthrough that clearly has the potential to make a huge impact on …
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Some Clean Energy Projects Carry Considerable Technical Risk
One of the elements of new technology that investors hate is “technical risk,” the chance that a certain concept, when deployed in the real world, will simply fail to work. I run across things like this all the time and …
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