Government Plays VC in CleanTech
Oct 28, 2009 - If we can get three home runs, that’s terrific,” announced Steven Chu, the DOE Secretary at a press conference on Monday, October 26 at Google’s campus in Mountain View, CA. Chu was at Google to deliver 37 energy technology projects funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy program [...]
Recent Posts for Inhabitat at OpenForum.com inspired by my travels and conversations with people in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. From VC and Google focus on smart home energy meters, to SF’s new composting bins, the smart money is on individual, personal behavior change:
Compost or Pay: The Journey to Zero Waste
Oct 25, 2009 - San Francisco [...]
Product Transparency, XRay Style: the recent effort from The Ecology Center to take an XRF scanner to hundreds of consumer products yields not so surprising, but accurate data about “how things are made.”
Entrepreneurs Movement: Can entrepreneurs be organized? The Kauffman Center will soon find out, as they attempt to start a movement of business owners, [...]
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