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Tesla’s Elon Musk: “I Ran Out Of Cash” — VentureBeat digs into the finances of Elon Musk, the CEO of electric vehicle startup Tesla Motors who singlehandedly sustained the company with his personal finances for quite awhile.

A New Sustainability Standard for Business: Joel Makower unveils his global sustainability standard for business in partnership with UL Environment, a business unit of the venerable Underwriters Laboratories.

When It Comes to Open Data, Is Transparency Enough? While this article from Mathew Ingram of our sister site GigaOM is on the topic of adding transparency to government data, it’s applicable to the smart grid and openness too.

How to Convert Your Facebook Superfans Into Brand Ambassadors: For all those social media workers out there, this is particularly true for green brands.

Anxiety Builds Among Utilities Over the Communications Part of ‘Smart’ Grid: The New York Times (via Climate Wire) looks at how the intersection between utilities, telecom and consumers is causing anxiety.

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