A startup developing technology that can clean water with low amounts of energy is quietly raising funds from some of SiliconValley’s most-well-known venture firms. According to a filing, NanoH20 is raising $30.6 million, and it has closed on about half of that, or $14.9 million. Read more »
Brent Constantz, the founder and former CEO of Calera — a startup that turns carbon dioxide into cement — is having a second act in clean water, and is incubating water desalination technologies and working on a proposal for a deep water desalination project in Monterey, Calif. Read more »
Calera Corp., a startup working to capture emissions from industrial flues and recycle it into pavement and building materials, has won a $19.9 million vote of confidence in a government program for projects recycling carbon emissions in to useful projects. Read more »
Vinod Khosla’s high profile greentech venture firm Khosla Ventures announced this morning that it will sign on former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair as a Senior Advisor. Blair, through his organization Tony Blair Associates, will provide advice and connections for Khosla Venture’s portfolio companies. Read more »
Peabody Energy, the world’s largest coal company, has taken a shine to an idea from a Silicon Valley startup to capture and recycle carbon emissions. The coal giant announced today that it has invested $15 million into 3-year-old Calera, which has developed technology to capture carbon […] Read more »
Cement and lumber will never be as sexy as an electric sports car, but there are still plenty of business opportunities in developing innovative materials for the growing green building market. A report published this week by NextGen Research estimates the global green building materials market […] Read more »
Is your IMAP Gmail moving slower on your handset than a clogged drain? GearDiary offers a simple and common sense tweak to keep the mail moving much faster: sync only the labels or folders that you really need on your phone. Now that’s a compromise that […] Read more »
An interesting debate has been raging on a Google Groups forum over the validity of carbon-recycling, cement-producing startup Calera, points out the Cleantech Group’s blog. And it’s a carbon tongue twister that could confuse the children — as well as us. Backed by Vinod Khosla, Calera […] Read more »
Twitter is now rumored to have between four and five million users, varying from the inactive and curious, to hardcore life-streamers, though it still lacks some useful features like groups. The company appears to be pursuing growth over immediate revenue streams, such as the lucrative delivery […] Read more »
Sam’s Club Selling Solar Panels: Nine Sam’s Club (owned by Wal-Mart) stores in southern California will be promoting rooftop solar installations in the stores and offer $500 discounts. Deals will be offered through residential installers Borrego Solar and BP Solar – CNet. Johnson Controls-Saft Gets $8.2M […] Read more »
It has been a few days now that I’ve had to play, I mean work with the XV6700 and felt it worth an update to let you know how it’s coming. First of all I am finding the XV6700 to be a great phone! This is […] Read more »
Very quietly, Cisco announced that nation’s largest Comcast will be using its CRS-1 routers for its national broadband backbone. CRS-1 will the backbone of Comcast’s integrated national delivery platform for broadband, communications, video entertainment and future cross-platform services. Comcast, as you might remember had bought more […] Read more »
