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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
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: [...]
Agriculture 2.0: Urban farming in a box
Posted in green startups, tagged AeroFarms, Agriculture 2.0, Cityscape Farms, Verdant Green Technologies on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In my Grist column this week, I take a look at some innovative sustainable urban farming startups: In my last Green State column, I wrote about Agriculture 2.0. The conference, held in Silicon Valley recently, brought together venture capitalists and sustainable ag startups in an effort to jump start a market for the regional distribution [...]
An interview with eSolar’s Bill Gross
Posted in alternative energy, energy, enviro capitalism, enviro startups, environment, eSolar, Google, green startups, green tech, solar energy, solar power plants, tagged Bill Gross, eSolar, green technology, solar energy, solar power plants on March 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
photo: Todd Woody In an interview I did with green tech entrepreneur Bill Gross for Yale Environment 360, Gross talks about the future of solar energy, his relationship with Google, and how to avoid battles over building large solar farms in the deserts of the Southwest: Bill Gross is not your typical solar energy entrepreneur. [...]
Will there be a Bloom boom?
Posted in alternative energy, Bloom Energy, fuel cells, green grid, green startups, tagged Bloom Energy, fuel cells, Google, John Doerr, K.R. Sridhar, Wal-Mart on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Todd Woody In Wednesday’s New York Times, I have a story on Bloom Energy, which has revealed its fuel cell technology with much fanfare after remaining in stealth mode for eight years: SUNNYVALE, Calif. — A Silicon Valley company is claiming a breakthrough in a decades-old quest to develop fuel cells that can supply [...]
Solar showdown in the Mojave
Posted in alternative energy, BrightSource Energy, climate change, endangered species, enviro startups, environment, global warming, green policy, green startups, PG&E, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, Tessera Solar, tagged BrightSource Energy, desert tortoise, Goldman Sachs, Mojave Desert, Senator Dianne Feinstein, solar energy, solar power plants, Tessera Solar, wildlife on December 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In Tuesday’s New York Times, I write about California Senator Dianne Feinstein’s move to ban renewable energy production in two proposed national monuments in the Mojave Desert: AMBOY, Calif. — Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation in Congress on Monday to protect a million acres of the Mojave Desert in California by scuttling some 13 big [...]
Solar startup files for IPO
Posted in alternative energy, enviro startups, environment, green startups, green tech, solar energy, Solyndra, tagged IPO, solar energy, Solyndra on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Solyndra In The New York Times on Friday, I write that Solyndra, a Silicon Valley photovoltaic module maker, has become the first solar startup in years to brave the public markets: Solyndra, a well-financed solar module maker, filed a registration statement for an initial public offering on Friday to raise $300 million to expand [...]
Who will become the Apple of home energy management?
Posted in energy efficiency, enviro startups, environment, green startups, tagged AlertMe, home energy management, Pligrim Beart, smart grid on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In my latest Green State column for Grist, I take a look at AlertMe, a British startup that’s making a play to become a consumer brand for managing home energy use: I’m sitting in a conference room at a PR agency on the San Francisco waterfront when the chief executive of AlertMe, a British energy [...]
Feds hand out $600 million for biofuel projects
Posted in biofuels, green policy, green startups, tagged Amyris, biofuels, federal grants, Sapphire Energy, Solazyme, ZeaChem on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Aurora Biofuels In the Los Angeles Times on Friday, I write about the Obama administration’s move to issue $600 million in grants for biofuel refinery pilot projects. California startups grabbed a fair share of the money: The federal government this morning announced it will hand out $600 million for next-generation biofuels projects, including those [...]
