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Apple events tend to bring out the giddy-kid-on-Christmas-eve feeling in many of us, and the lines that start at these events reflect that. Here in San Francisco, the WWDC line started no earlier than 6:30PM last night…over 15 hours before the event starts. Read more »

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When running a business, it can sometimes be hard to draw the line between being of service and being taken advantage of by customers, clients and other professionals. Here are a few ways to reinforce that line. Read more »

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Roku is boosting the amount of sports content it carries through a multiyear deal with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) that adds live pay-per-view events and archived matches to its broadband set-top box. It’s the third major sports deal for the set-top box maker. Read more »

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Starting with Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote at 10 a.m. PDT/1 p.m. EDT, Facebook will launch f8 Live, which will stream all sessions from the conference live on the Interwebz, along with a number of interactive features that are designed to let those who can’t attend feel like they are a part of the action. Read more »

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More than a month after the conclusion of COP15 — the UN climate talks in Copenhagen — negotiators and observers alike are still grappling with what to make of the Copenhagen Accord that resulted from the summit. Agreements under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate […] Read more »

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Meet Qinetiq: A British defense technology company, Qinetiq, is testing a new type of lithium-ion battery based on lithium-ion iron-sulfide chemistry for hybrids and electric vehicles that could be substantially cheaper and more powerful than existing batteries. — Technology Review Tioga, SunDurance Bag NJ Solar Schools […] Read more »

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Top Green Stories of the Decade: Take a stroll through 10 years of green headline grabbers, including these stories: climate took over the environmental movement, local got vocal, we got a raft of new body-invaders to fret about (like BPA and PVC), and green went pop. […] Read more »

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Should developed countries be able to meet their targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by investing in carbon capture projects in developing nations? That’s one of the many questions negotiators in Copenhagen have considered this week at the ongoing international climate talks, weighing the case for […] Read more »

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Greenwash or Real Deal?: “Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells Copenhagen that Iran, a fossil fuel giant, wants to dive into renewable energy and stitch cooperative links with other developing nations to develop non-fossil fuel energy,” including solar and wind. — WSJ’s Environmental Capital Road Ahead for […] Read more »

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Trade Tension at Copenhagen: “China is demanding that a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gases prohibit nations from imposing trade sanctions, further pitting the world’s No. 1 emitter against U.S. lawmakers.” — Bloomberg How Fisker Ended Up in Delaware: Reporter Neil King Jr. details California startup […] Read more »

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COPENHAGEN — The weekend break between the two weeks of the Copenhagen climate negotiations showed two things: on one hand hundreds of thousands of people around the world are willing to hold rallies to support an international climate agreement (by some estimates 100,000 alone in Copenhagen), […] Read more »

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COPENHAGEN — The time for business leaders to affect the Copenhagen climate change negotiations is now, Tim Flannery, chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council, proclaimed Saturday night while holding up a globe in one hand and a skull in the other. The props might have been […] Read more »

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COPENHAGEN — UN Climate Chief Yvo de Boer described the state of the climate negotiations at the Copenhagen talks on Thursday as making “good progress” in a few key areas, including a growing consensus around developing a new technology mechanism that will accelerate technology development and […] Read more »

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While I’ve been skeptical of electric vehicle infrastructure Better Place’s grand ambitions to sell EV service like cell phones and cover small countries with its network, there’s one region that is actually a good fit with Better Place’s EV dreams: Denmark. I sat down with some […] Read more »

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GE Chief Calls for Swift, Certain Climate Policy: “What’s most important for the U.S. is that we go from Copenhagen, go into 2010, and have the courage to act on clean energy,” General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt told a conference on renewable energy at Clemson University […] Read more »

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The United Nations’ historic Climate Change Conference, the COP15, hosted in Copenhagen (read more coverage over on our sister site, Earth2Tech) — has seen the usual political controversies, notably leaked emails from the UK Met Office. I suspect what the world’s citizens are looking for isn’t […] Read more »

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Almost a decade after launching the world’s first carbon fund, the World Bank said it has learned a series of lessons about the regulation, oversight and scaling process of the carbon funds and greenhouse reduction projects that it has overseen. The World Bank, which spoke about […] Read more »

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COPENHAGEN — The United Nations top climate official Yvo de Boer weighed in on a variety of high-profile issues at a press conference at the Copenhagen climate negotiations on Tuesday morning, including the leaked climate science emails, how the ruling from the Environmental Protection Agency yesterday […] Read more »

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As global leaders settled in this week to negotiate a climate agreement in Copenhagen — at the U.N. summit that the VP of the Chamber of Commerce’s intellectual property center has called “the IP battle of the year” — the Obama administration took a step that […] Read more »

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COPENHAGEN — Out of the tens of thousands of attendees roaming the halls of the Bella Center, the loudest calls to action and protests are distinctly coming from advocates of more support for developing nations, particularly the ones most vulnerable to climate change. These groups also […] Read more »

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COPENHAGEN — David Blood, the lesser known partner that makes up the “Blood and Gore” of investment management group Generation Investment (yes, the other is Al Gore), asked Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen this afternoon for a strong treaty at the Copenhagen climate talks that […] Read more »

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The opening ceremony for the Copenhagen climate talks just kicked off with a video of a child’s nightmare of global destruction, followed by a Danish girls choir. Solving climate change for the next generation is clearly a big theme throughout the event. The intro music was […] Read more »

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There’s some great coverage already coming out of the Copenhagen climate talks, and there’s going to be a lot more over the next 2 weeks. There’s also a lot of info that the UNFCCC is providing online. I’ll be doing a reoccurring roundup of some of […] Read more »

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COP15, the largest conference about the environment and its challenges is being held in Copenhagen, Denmark. Earth2Tech editor Katie Fehrenbacher is on the ground covering the event for her and GigaOM readers. In her first report, she outlines the chaos she has encountered so far. Read more »

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Over 5,000 miles away from the Bay Area and Silicon Valley, where tech entrepreneurs often have an undying faith in the free market, world leaders will be meeting to make major policy decisions over the next two weeks that will determine not only how the world […] Read more »

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The United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop15) kicks off Monday in Copenhagen, and promises to be a hugely influential event. Entrepeneur Shai Agassi has weighed in on its importance for governments and public awareness. Read more »

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Calling Dibs on Cleantech: “Just as the rise of the Internet spawned battles over technology rights and patents, the clean tech revolution has the industry hunkered down behind armies of lawyers fighting over intellectual property rights.” Now UC Berkeley has released a report on the battle […] Read more »

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The leaders of several university energy departments were solidly optimistic about the prospects of the international climate talks that begin in Copenhagen next week at an event at Google’s San Francisco headquarters on Monday night. While Google grabbed our attention at the event by indicating the […] Read more »

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“Given the role that transport plays in causing greenhouse gas emissions,” UN climate chief Yvo de Boer told participants in a UN framework convention in Tokyo earlier this year, “any serious action on climate change will zoom in on the transport sector.” Nearly a year later, […] Read more »

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The upcoming Cop15 international climate negotiations in Copenhagen will have a massive affect on the developing greentech industry. How close countries get to agreeing on legally binding greenhouse gas emissions could determine the size of the various international greentech markets, be a lever for how much […] Read more »

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Obama Heading to Copenhagen: The White House announced today that President Obama will attend the UN climate talks next month in Copenhagen “and commit the U.S. to a short-term emission reduction target ‘in the range of 17 percent’ below 2005 levels, providing new momentum for negotiations […] Read more »

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Selling the Smart Grid to Average Joe: Smart grid analyst Jesse Berst examines how the Electrification Roadmap released this week by a coalition of heavyweight CEOs could be an inflection point for the smart grid. “Electric transportation is something the public wants; it will take a […] Read more »

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Dutch to Try Road Tax Alternative: The Dutch government has approved a plan to replace the annual road tax on cars with mileage fees in an effort to reduce traffic congestion and vehicle emissions. Starting in 2012, GPS devices will be used to monitor vehicles, tracking […] Read more »

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Feds Open Another Spigot for Clean Energy: The Treasury Department has announced that it’s allocating $2.2 billion in bonds to support the efforts of 805 small-scale clean and renewable energy projects across the country. Most of the bond money will be used to support solar, wind […] Read more »

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I usually have at least three browsers open at any time. One will be a Mozilla Gecko app (Firefox, Camino, or SeaMonkey) and one an Apple WebKit based program (Stainless, Cruz, iCab, Shiira, OmniWeb, or especially since Safari 4 was released, Safari itself). Interestingly, I find […] Read more »

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Here are some of today’s phone conversations I enjoyed reading or viewing on the web, along with some brief thoughts: Verizon Hanging up on iPhone? (Computerworld) — That’s the sentiment now that Google and Verizon are buddy-buddy after this week’s announcement. The thought is that it […] Read more »

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Epic Fail: International climate talks taking place in Copenhagen this December are in danger of collapse as a result of the economic recession, complexity of the issues at hand, and “suspicion” between developed and developing countries. — Wall Street Journal Health Care Tactics Needed for Climate […] Read more »

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Cozy Coda-Goldman Sachs Connection: Former treasury secretary Henry Paulson, onetime chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs, recently invested in electric car startup Coda Automotive and joined the advisory board. Coda’s ties to the firm run deeper than that: CEO Kevin Czinger and co-chairman Steven Heller […] Read more »

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