About 40 years ago, I used to lie in bed on Sunday mornings with a cup of coffee and the “Los Angeles Times” opened to the real estate section: “Homes in Other States.” I recall voicing some level of buyer’s …
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Data Is Playing a Big Role in Driving Clean Energy
As we’ve often discussed here, information and communications technology (ICT) is one of the main drivers of the rapid migration to renewable energy. There are hundreds of different reasons for this, but here’s one that you’ll find the moment you …
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News and Views from Tech Maven Fritz Maffry
My Kansas City-based colleague Fritz Maffry writes: The race is on for who is going to win the battle in autonomous vehicles, smart assistants, and artificial intelligence. Right now, Tesla, Microsoft, and Amazon seem to be out-executing Google, Apple, and …
Re: CleanTech Innovation in the Public and Private Sectors
Here’s a conversation that I’m having with a business/cleantech-savvy colleague in Kansas City that I hope you find interesting: Colleague: I just read Arsenal of Democracy and Freedom’s Forge, two books of the last five years, both dedicated to how the US ramped …
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2GreenEnergy on Social Media
I find all this work I’m doing on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, etc., to be invigorating. Instagram is particularly cool, insofar as it calls upon me to be ever-vigilant for interesting photographs that I can, perhaps, pair up with …
From Guest Blogger Jordan: Google Attempts to Invade Uber's Ride-Sharing Turf Through Waze
The driverless cars that Google is developing seem to fit perfectly into the ride-sharing industry, so it comes as no surprise at all that the search giant is looking to enter this business. The immense growth in popularity that ride-sharing …
Google in the Developing World
It’s no secret that Google is the world’s most rapidly diversifying company, and I found further proof of this yesterday when I had the pleasure of meeting Rick Needham, Google’s Director of Energy and Sustainability, at the Low Carbon Investing …
Will Google Sit Around And Watch the World of 20th Century Fossil Fuels Destroy the Planet?
My colleague Gary Tulie is helping me with some of the research and writing surrounding my current book project (working title: “Bullish on Renewable Energy – Eleven Reasons Why Clean Energy Investors Can’t Lose”). To that end, he recently sent …
Changing the Face of Energy and Transportation in the 21st Century
I have been taking a break from writing books, largely because I was out of ideas—until just a minute ago when I had what I think is a good concept: how the tech giants (e.g., Google) and the American billionaires (e.g., …
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From Guest Blogger Brian McGowan: Google Invests in Solar Energy Again
Love or hate the way they do their internet business, Google is definitely into their renewable energy. Over the years I have read some interesting articles about their investment in and installation of energy efficiency or renewable energy technology, and …
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