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Bay Area Consulting Business Level Virtually Flat

The Bay Area Con­sult­ing Busi­ness Level Index (BA-CBL) came in at 97 for the week end­ing April 14th 2011. This is vir­tu­ally flat, down 1 point from last week’s read­ing of 98.  A read­ing below 100 sug­gests sub­dued busi­ness activ­ity for con­sul­tants and exec­u­tive level con­trac­tors in the Bay Area. The 97 read­ing is very close […]

Does “Green” Sell?

It is hard to see a direct con­nec­tion between sales suc­cess and “green­ness” of a com­pany. Low ranked com­pa­nies in Greenpeace’s “Guide to greener elec­tron­ics” are def­i­nitely sell­ing well, as do top ranked Nokia, Sam­sung or HP.

Clean Tech In California

Cal­i­for­nia is a power house in clean tech inno­va­tion and exe­cu­tion. Lot’s of ven­ture cap­i­tal flows into clean tech com­pa­nies, a report released by Next10 reveals.

When Disaster Hits Home

The San Bruno explo­sion and fire hit home way too close, and trig­gered thoughts about risks we are appar­ently will­ing to take to just avoid change. Will we wait to switch away from fos­sil fuels until it is too late?

Squandered Opportunities — How Not To Manage Public Land For Renewable Energy

No renew­able energy is gen­er­ated when the Fed­eral Bureau of Land Man­age­ment “man­ages” sites to gen­er­ate renew­able energy on pub­lic land. And Gold­man Sax seems to be in the non-generating busi­ness — why?