The Green:Net launchpad event showcases 10 startups or new products hand-picked by the Earth2Tech staff. The judges selected ecoATM as the winner, with People Power and Soneter tied for second, while Soneter won the audience choice award. Read More »
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At Green:Net today, venture capitalists said that there was opportunity for money to be made by companies focusing on metering and smart grid technologies. But they also identified some other opportunities. Read More »
Over the next 10-15 years we will fundamentally reinvent the structure of society said Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures speaking today at the Green:Net conference in San Francisco. Khosla explained that he’s now investing in areas that two years ago he would never have considered. Read More »
Jonathan Koomey of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab and Stanford is one of the world’s reigning experts on “dematerialization,” which he defines as two things. First, “removing the need to create a physical product.” And second, “the energy savings associated with not having to transport that product.” Read More »
Carbon pricing will become an important part of corporate accounting. But pricing aside, executives at today’s Green:Net conference said that carbon software can give companies a view into other inefficiencies in their operations. Read More »
As information technology begins to improve energy efficiency in other industries such as transportation and electricity generation, it will grow to consume ever more energy, forcing IT providers to be even more concerned about enegry consumption said Bill Weihl, Green Energy Czar at Google. Read More »
It’s a testament to how exciting and likely the idea of a networked car is that a panel full of experts at Green:Net chose to focus their attention on the trials, tribulations and pitfalls of future of the automotive industry. No boosterism for us, thanks! Read More »
Before you do business in a state, you must think about what the public utilities commissions in those states are there to do, was the message for entrepreneurs and investors attending the Green:Net conference from Dian M. Grueneich, Commissioner, California Public Utility Commission. Read More »
The cost of commodities trend in one direction: up. Coal, oil, gold, even rice, it’s all the same, said greentech and software pioneer Bill Gross at Earth2Tech’s Green:Net conference today. “The one thing that’s going down is the cost of computational power. Read More »
Microsoft and Google are both working on applications for monitoring and controlling energy usage in the home. At Green:Net, the Internet giants laid out their strategies for enabling consumers and utilities to keep track of their power consumption. Read More »
Thanks to Moore’s Law, information technology over time revolutionizes more and more industries, and is currently creating trillion-dollar opportunities in the green tech industry said Steve Jurvetson, managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson today at the Green:Net conference in San Francisco. Read More »
At Green:Net today, former California governor and 2010 gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown said you can’t turn to government to drive innovation in green technology, but that it needs to work together with entrepreneurs to foster innovation. Read More »
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