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Green MBA Success: Meet Conor Carlin, Manager, Enterprise Energy Intelligence, EnerNOC, Inc

By Tracey de Morsella on January 9, 2011 1 Comment Aspen Institute, Babson College, Babson Energy & Environmental Club, Beyond Grey Pinstripes, biofuels, biomimicry, bioplastics, Boston, business schools, Cambridge, career transition, CargillDow, clean technologies, cleantech, Conor Carlin, corn-based plastics, energy, energy efficiency, EnerNoc, ENOC, global cleantech clusters, green chemistry, Green Collar Venture business plan competition, GreenerU, Management Consulting Field Experience, mba, metering, MFCE, natural capital, Novomer, Paul Hawken, Piggy Pellets, polylactic acid, Qteros, renewable energy, Society of Plastics Engineers, sustainability, The Ecology of Commerce, water technologies

Meet Conor Carlin, Manager, Enterprise Energy Intelligence EnerNOC, Inc. Conor is also the managing editor of Thermoforming Quarterly, a newsletter of the Thermoforming Division of the Society of Plastics Engineering. Prior to transitioning to a career in energy management, Conor worked for 9 years in business development, sales and marketing in the plastics and packaging industries. Read our interview with Conor, in which he shares his story of how he transitioned from a career in packaging and plastics sales management to one in energy management.

Predictions for Cleantech in 2011

By Dallas Kachan on December 8, 2010 1 Comment Biofuel investment, biofuels, Blue Orange, California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), cellulosic ethanol, China, clean technologies, clean technology, cleantech, cleantech investing, cleantech taxonomy, Climate Change, corporate investment, corporate social responsibility (CSR) benefits, corporate venture funding, corporate venturing arms, Darwinian winnowing of efficiency, economic "stair-step" downwards, energy efficiency, energy efficiency plan, global clean technology sector, global economic slide, Hony Capital, Kachan & Co., Kleiner Perkins, M&A activity, NER300 fund, nuclear innovation, P/E multiples, price signals, renewable energy, Renewable Energy Standards, Sharp's Recurrent Energy, solar;, Suez Environnement, wind

It’s December, and time for an annual reading of the green [tech industry] tea leaves. What will the new year have in store for cleantech?

L.A. Makes Play to Become World’s Clean Tech Capital

By Chris de Morsella on April 25, 2009 1 Comment Antonio Villaraigosa, California Institute of Technology, Caltech, clean tech corridor, clean technologies, clean technology, CleanTech Los Angeles, Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles, CRA/LA, DWP, green building techniques, green economy, green jobs, green manufacturing, green technology, JPL, L.A., Los Angeles Department of Water & Power, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, renewable energy resources, sustainable technology, UCLA, USC, water conservation technologies

CleanTech Los Angeles is a multi-agency collaboration between CRA/LA, Caltech, DWP, JPL, Mayor’s Office, Port UCLA, and USC to establish Los Angeles as the global leader in research, commercialization, and deployment of clean technologies. It brings together groups like the city’s power and water utility, the chamber of commerce, and the universally recognized scientific research heavyweights UCLA, USC and CalTech with the aim to help LA region become a global center of green technology, green jobs and green manufacturing, officials explained. The ultimate goal is a lofty one: to become the global capital of clean technology.