10 Cleantech Projects. Cars Published on November 16th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan There are so many cleantech projects, business stories, policy stories, scientific advancements, and original pieces I want to write that I can never get to the majority of them.
Here’s a quick round-up of some recent cleantech project announcements: IKEA is adding solar to 3 more U.S. stores. Top Ten Highlights of Cleantech in Houston, Texas. With Hybrid Capacitors, LEDs Have a Bright Future. LED lights, or light emitting diodes, are increasingly more common in newly manufactured devices.
Top Ten Cleantech Highlights of Ford. A new way to build nanostructures. How to grow wires and tiny plates. Researchers at MIT have found a way to grow submicroscopic wires in water with great precision, using a method that makes it possible to produce entire electronic devices through a liquid-based process.
Top Ten Cleantech Initiatives of Cisco Systems. Cisco Systems is a multinational corporation based in the United States.
Cisco Systems designs, manufactures, and sells consumer electronics and voice, communications, and networking services and technologies. The headquarters of Cisco Systems is in San Jose, California. Cisco Systems is often cited as the biggest technology corporation in the world. Green is about doing the right thing and providing customers with solutions and products that assist them in achieving their “green goals.”
As part of their commitment to the environment, Cisco pledged to reduce carbon dioxide emissions 25 percent by 2012. 1) Green Strategies. 2) One Million Acts of Green. 3) Green Wireless Strategies. Bridging the innovation gap: From Latvia to Silicon Valley. Anne Knudsen Panelists John Roberts, director of the Center for Global Business and the Economy at GSB; Valdis Dombrovskis, prime minister of Latvia; and Leonids Ribickis, rector, Riga Technical University.
In recent years, it has become increasingly difficult to throw a rock and not hit a startup founder at Stanford or the surrounding Bay Area, but the same cannot be said of many other places in the world. Latvia, which recently experienced a devastating economic crisis, is one of the many nations eager to expand its ties with Silicon Valley and emulate the startup model. To that end, Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis visited Stanford on Friday, speaking at the Stanford Graduate School of Business Knight Management Center as part of Latvia @ Stanford 2011. The event was hosted by the Latvian American Business Association of California and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Dombrovskis gave an overview of the Latvian economy and its recent struggles. With Ohio’s Help, Creating Clean Electricity and Jobs.
If you ever get the chance to meet Irish-born entrepreneur, Philip Brennan, he’ll be quick to tell you, “Depending on who you believe in my family, I’m a fourth or fifth generation entrepreneur.
I’ve worked for big corporations for many years and was tired of trying to turn the aircraft carrier in another direction. It is more fun sailing our hydrofoil sailboat, allowing the team to move quicker and respond faster to the changing conditions.” This is a simple way to describe his career and his current venture as a co-founder and the CEO of Echogen Power Systems LLC based in Akron, OH. In 1992, at the age of 22, Mr. Brennan began charting his course by becoming the youngest recipient of Georgetown University’s Graduate Fellowship for the Masters in Business Administration. Founded in 2007, Echogen Power Systems describes itself as energy’s scrap metal dealer.
Mr. By making better use of the energy resources we have.” Ecovative’s Fully “Able” Packaging: Renewable, Compostable and Eatable (maybe) Image Credit: Evocative Design How about packaging that is grown (not manufactured), renewable, compostable and biodegradable?
Oh, and also moisture resistant, heat resistant and strong? Hell yes! EcoCradle™ packaging from Ecovative Design, uses rapidly growing renewable resources like mushroom to design durable and effective packaging. This innovation has earned Ecovative Design the prestigious 2011 Dupont Packaging Diamond Award: Thinking completely outside the box, Ecovative looked to nature and found an innovative, cost-effective, all-natural solution for protective secondary packaging used for items such as electronics. Common packaging materials, such as Styrofoam™ are made from oil or natural gas – products that are not ecologically or economically sustainable and are also hard to reuse (packaging is designed for a specific product so it’s hard to extend its usefulness) and recycle. Engineers build a nanoscale device for brain-inspired computing. Stanford Report, July 12, 2011.
CleanTechnica: Cleantech innovation news and views. Clean Power Published on July 11th, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer Taking space-based solar one rather giant leap further, Japan’s respected construction giant Shimizu is recommending that Earthlings build a huge moon-based solar plant to power the entire world from a Lunar Ring.
The idea behind Shimizu’s lunar solar belt would be to build an array of solar modules extending like a belt around the 11,000 kilometer equator. Cleantech Venture Investment Down 33%; But IPOs Remain Strong in Q2. This is an archived story.
The information and any links may no longer be accurate. Cleantech venture investment fell in the second quarter of 2011 (Q211), but IPO and M&A activity remained strong. Clean technology venture investments in North America, Europe, China and India totaled $1.83 billion across 161 deals, according to preliminary results released by the Cleantech Group.
Measured by dollars invested, investments fell 33% compared to the first quarter ($2.75 billion) and were also 10% lower than Q2 2010 ($2.03 billion). Europe ‘falling behind’ in green investment race. Loic Le Meur: American Start-up Entrepreneurs Have Nothing To Learn From Europe (TCTV) Few transatlantic entrepreneurs know both the European and American start-up scene as intimately as Seesmic and Le Web founder Loic Le Meur. So the first question I asked Loic when he came into the San Francisco TechcrunchTV studio last week was what American start-up entrepreneurs can learn from their European counterparts. Nothing, Loic told me. Weekly Cleantech News Roundup – CleanTechnica: Cleantech innovation news and views.