By Tracey de Morsella October 8, 2009 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy , AlwaysOn , AquaCritox , battery manufacturing , Best Early Venture Award , biodiesel , BioFuelBox , Biofuels Digest , biomass , biorefineries , biorefinery , Biotech and Agriculture , Bridge Bank , BrightSource , CA , Calera , California , cement , clean energy , Clean Energy Entrepreneur of the Year Competition , Clean Manufacturing and Clean Products , coal , Coda , Coda Automotive , Colorado , desalination , Edison , Editor’s Choice Award for Most Revolutionary Technology , electricity , energy efficiency , Energy Innovator Award , Energy Management , Energy Storage System , FOG , Global Cleantech 100 list , GoingGreen , GoingGreen 100 , GoingGreen 100 Top Private Companies of 2009 , Goodwin Procter , Green Automobiles & Transportation , Green Buildings & Green Nano/Micro-Tech , Green Materials , Green Rankings , greenhouse gas emissions. GHG , HelioVolt , Houston , innovation , KPMG , Lakewood , Los Gatos , low-speed vehicles , MA , MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellowship , MacArthur Foundation , Manatt , Marin Soljačić , Massachusetts , Massachusetts Technology Collaborative , Menlo Park , Morgan Stanley , National Renewable Energy Laboratory , Newsweek , Next Energy Innovators , NREL , Porous Power , Red Herring Top 100 Global Company , Resource Recovery & Waste Management , Revolution Partners , San Jose , Santa Monica , sewage sludge while concurrently producing energy with the extracted wastes. The Ireland-based firm as a , Silicon Valley Bank , smart grid , solar energy , solar panels , solar thermal processes , sustainability , The Artimis Project , turbine engine , TX , ultra-thin lithium batteries , US Department of Energy , wastewater , Water Technology & Treatment , Watertown , wet waste , Wilson Heat Exchanger , Wilson TurboPower , wireless , WiTricity , Woburn , Zeachem
The AlwaysOn Network recently announced their Third Annual List of the GoingGreen 100 Top Private Companies of 2009. The award recognizes the top private greentech companies that are creating new business opportunities and transforming the world’s largest industries to improve sustainability.Among the hundreds of companies evaluated, They selected the Oakland California-based, Brightsource Energy, a provider of solar energy to utility companies, as the overall winner.
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The Guardian and Cleantech Group recently announced the Global Cleantech 100. This is the first ever list of this scale highlighting the most promising private clean technology companies around the world. The Global Cleantech 100 recognizes companies at the forefront of cleantech innovation offering solutions to some of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. The final list represents the collective opinion of hundreds of leading experts from cleantech innovation and venture capital companies in EMEA, North America, India and China.
By Chris de Morsella September 14, 2009 Bill Weihl , BrightSource Energy , CA , Calif , Clean tech , corporate sustainability , datacenter , eSolar , Global Climate and Alternative Energy Summit , global warming , Google , green technology , greenhouse gas , grid parity , heliostat , Larry Page , Nanosolar , Oakland , Pasadena , San Francisco , Sergey Brin , solar energy , solar energy sector , solar gas turbine , Solar Mirror , solar thermal
It appears that Google is getting ever deeper into the sun business. Stating that it is dissatisfied with the general lack of progress on achieving breakthroughs in green technology, the company wants to build better highly reflective and rugged mirrors — as well as the mirror substrate that the reflective surface is mounted on. By reflecting more light and more of the solar spectrum than ordinary mirrors these mirrors have the potential to reduce the cost of solar thermal systems by up to 25 per cent.
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Last week, Sierra Magazine named the nation’s top 20 “coolest” schools for their efforts to stop global warming and operate sustainably. The magazine’s September/October cover story spotlights the schools that they believe are making a true impact for the planet, and marks Sierra’s third annual listing of America’s greenest universities and colleges. The […]
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The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) recently announced their list of the greenest cities in the United States and have released their findings on a new web site, called Smarter Cities. The survey includes all cities in the United States with populations larger than 50,000. Smarter Cities is considered to be one of the nation’s most comprehensive and robust database of U.S. urban progress toward sustainability. Seattle ranked number one and San Francisco ranked number 2 among the 67 large cities that were evaluated. Madison, Wisconsin placed firstand Santa Rosa, California came in second among the 176 medium cities that were surveyed. Among the 402 cities that were evaluated, Bellingham, Washington came in first place and Mountain View, California came in second.
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Greenopia recently released a comprehensive ranking of 50 governors in the US and compared their policies, transparency, and interest group ratings to determine which governors were eco-leaders and reveals which state governments are most dedicated to preserving the environment. Topping the list is Governor Bill Ritter of Colorado followed closely by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California.
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The Princeton Review, today released its second annual Green Ratings of colleges. In this measure of how environmentally friendly the institutions are on a scale of 60 to 99, the company tallied its Green Ratings for 697 institutions based on data it collected from the colleges in 2008-09 concerning their environmentally related policies, practices, and academic offerings. The Princeton Review also named 15 colleges to its “2010 Green Rating Honor Roll” – a list that salutes the institutions that received the highest possible score – 99 – in this year’s rating tallies.
By Tracey de Morsella July 22, 2009 building science , CA , Clean tech , employers , energy , energy economy , green job fair , greening existing buildings , job fair , San Francisco , smart systems , social innovation , stimulus package and green job development , Tribal Development , Water , West Coast Green
West Coast Green is the largest conference on green innovation for the built environment. On October 1st-3rd at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco 14,000 thought leaders and forward thinkers will convene to engage in dynamic, big-picture, systems-thinking to reinvent business, laugh, make connections, affect policy, and create meaningful and lasting positive change. The event will spotlight 125 speakers, 104 education and networking sessions and 333 exhibits.
