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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.

Electric Car’s Achilles’ Heel

Bat­ter­ies for elec­tric cars do have a poor energy den­sity com­pared to gaso­line used for con­ven­tional cars. How­ever, tech­no­log­i­cal advance­ments and avail­abil­ity of dis­trib­uted charg­ing sta­tions might be enough to make this dis­ad­van­tage man­age­able for elec­tric cars.

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?

Will Wind Become Competitive?

There are many wind energy projects under way world wide. But the cost of wind energy is still not com­pet­i­tive with the cur­rent cost of energy pro­duced by fos­sil fuels. Envi­ron­men­tal costs are still not accounted for.