photo: BrightSource Energy I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. Some good news on the environmental front for a change: Global investment in green technology in the first quarter of the year spiked 52 percent compared to the previous quarter, to $2.57 billion. That’s according to a report released Tuesday by the [...]
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Powering up: Green tech investment surges in first quarter
Posted in alternative energy, biofuels, electric cars, enviro capitalism, enviro startups, green financing, renewable energy, solar energy, tagged Cleantech Group on April 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Power sharing: App connects EV drivers, outlet owners
Posted in electric cars, enviro startups, environment, green cars on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In The New York Times on Monday, I write about PlugShare, a new iPhone app that lets people share their household outlets and electric car charging stations with EV drivers: First there was music sharing and then car sharing. Now get ready for plug sharing. Xatori, a Silicon Valley software start-up, aims to create a [...]
Green tech investment plummets, California hit hard
Posted in alternative energy, enviro capitalism, enviro startups, environment, green financing, green policy, green tech, renewable energy, solar energy on October 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
photo: Todd Woody In The New York Times on Friday, I write about a report showing venture capital investment in green technology companies nose-dived in the third quarter of 2010, with California taking a big hit: Has the green tech recovery stalled? Global venture capital investment in green technology companies fell 30 percent, to $1.53 [...]
Farms in Newark? Ag 2.0 comes to urban New Jersey
Posted in Agriculture 2.0, enviro startups, green startups, tagged AeroFarms, Ag 2.0, EcoVeggies, St. Philip's Academy, sustainable agriculture on September 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: EcoVeggies In The New York Times on Monday, I write about how Newark is becoming a hotbed of sustainable agriculture, or Ag 2.0: On the rooftop garden at St. Philip’s Academy, a private school in Newark, students tend plots of everything from broccoli and beets to sweet corn and spaghetti squash. But since August [...]
Economy sags, green tech investment surges
Posted in alternative energy, BrightSource Energy, energy efficiency, enviro capitalism, enviro startups, environment, green financing, green tech, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, tagged BrightSource Energy, green tech investing, venture capital investment on August 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Todd Woody I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. The anemic economic recovery may have hit the dog days of summer with consumer spending and factory orders slowing, but the new energy economy continues to surge, according to a report released Tuesday by Ernst & Young. Venture capital (VC) investment in [...]
Home improvement giant invests in green retrofit startup
Posted in alternative energy, energy efficiency, enviro startups, environment, green startups, green tech, tagged energy retrofit, green building, Lowe's, Recurve on June 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This post first appeared on Grist. I usually don’t write about companies’ funding announcements, unless the amount of money raised is particularly eye-popping. But when Recurve announced Wednesday that it had scored $8 million in its latest round of fund-raising, what caught my attention was who decided to invest in the San Francisco energy retrofit [...]
Fuelish behavior: It’s not just your car, it’s you
Posted in corporate sustainability, enviro startups, green cars, green tech, tagged Dan Steere, GreenRoad on June 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In my new Green State column on Grist, I write about GreenRoad, a Silicon Valley startup that uses technology to change drivers’ behavior to cut fuel use — and greenhouse gas emissions — as well as accidents: I recently took the Chevrolet Volt for a spin near San Francisco’s ballpark, checking another item off my [...]
David Gelbaum: California’s sun king
Posted in alternative energy, David Gelbaum, energy, enviro capitalism, enviro startups, green policy, green startups, green tech, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, sustainable agriculture, tagged Bill Gross, Cool Earth Solar, David Gelbaum, Entech Solar, eSolar, green technology, GridPoint, Rob Lamkin, Wildlands Conservancy on May 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Todd Woody Green Wombat has been in transition so I’m a bit behind on posting. In case you missed it, in the Sunday New York Times on May 9, I wrote a profile of David Gelbaum, one of the nation’s biggest — and until now — most reclusive green technology investors and environmental philanthropists: [...]
Top execs leave three renewable energy startups
Posted in alternative energy, biofuels, Clipper Windpower, enviro startups, environment, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, SolarReserve, wind power, tagged Aurora Biofuels, Clipper Windpower, Douglas Pertz, Robert Walsh, SolarReserve, Terry Murphy on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Aurora Biofuels As I write in The New York Times on Friday, it’s spring cleaning at three renewable energy firms as top executives depart SolarReserve, Clipper Windpower and Aurora Biofuels: The past week has brought a spate of executive departures at renewable energy startups, with the president of SolarReserve, a power plant builder, and [...]
