Facebook-commissioned study says Oregon data center is good for the economy
Study by economic consulting firm ECONorthwest says the Prineville data center contributed to 207 jobs in 2013.
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Study by economic consulting firm ECONorthwest says the Prineville data center contributed to 207 jobs in 2013.
A French company wants to put a $25 sensor in the fuel tanks of vehicles to help the engines burn cleaner and more efficiently. The sensor takes a “fingerprint” of the fuel, informing car computers how to respond.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers combined indium tin oxide, which is commonly found on touch-sensitive screens, and a glassy substance to make the new material.
T. Boone sits down with Katie to talk about converting trucks to natural gas.
Blu Homes, the startup that makes modular green homes, has raised a whopping $60 million, led by Netherlands-based Skagen Group.
Amidst the exodus of generalist venture capitalists from cleantech investing, a new planned billion dollar cleantech fund has emerged: Inerjys.
Total investments in cleantech startups dropped in the first quarter of 2012 by 31 percent compared to the first quarter of 2011, and 19 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2011, according to the latest figures from the Cleantech Group.
Starting a electricity retailer doesn’t sound like an easy thing to do, but startup Ethical Electric is setting out to do that – but without needing to building and operating distribution lines.
Spring Ventures founder Sunil Paul braved the rain and the ever-present SoLoMo apps to give a rendition of his presentation on the Cleanweb, or using computing, mobile, and the web to address resource constraints like energy, food and water.
When did thermostats get cool? Right now. Watch and learn.
The Indian city Delhi has one of the largest compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicle fleets in the world. Walking around the streets of Delhi you can see buses and three-wheeled motorized rickshaws that run on CNG all around you. When did this all happen?
The combined market cap for publicly-listed cleantech companies is about $142 billion today, or roughly about the same as pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, says UBS Securities’ David Dolezal. It’s also a decrease of about two thirds from a market cap of $475 billion back in 2007.
Get a first-look at the hotly anticipated new car from Tesla.
Get a first-look at the hotly anticipated new car from Tesla.
Get a first-look at the hotly anticipated new car from Tesla.
Amidst a lot of the doom and gloom at a clean power financing conference this week, there was a bright spot for entrepreneurs and investors building: mergers and acquisitions have been good in 2011. Here are some myths and tips for selling a greentech firm:
CODA’s VP, Corporate Strategy and Business Development answers our Q’s.
Silicon Valley’s so-called undertaker, Sherwood Partners, which specializes in shutting down startups, sees a major fallout coming for cleantech, according to an interview with PeHub. If the IPO window has really slammed shut for much of 2011, that prediction could come true.
I’ve been playing with a G2x, the first dual-core smartphone for T-Mobile, over the last few days and this phone simply flies! I’ll have a full review soon, but for now, here’s an overview of the device along with demos of the performance, 1080p video playback and gaming.
The new 27-inch iMac unboxed and early hands-on footage, including demonstration of the new built-in FaceTime HD camera.
TaskRabbit founder and CEO Leah Busque talks to GigaOM about her startup, a marketplace for outsourcing errands and other tasks.
Fresh out of the box is the Acer Iconia Tab A500, a Wi-Fi Google Honeycomb tablet. See how it compares to the iPad 2 in terms of size and ports. Plus I test the microSD card slot – but you have to watch the video to see how I carry memory expansion cards around.
We look at Tesla’s new retail store.
I didn’t think it was possible for the shares of rare earth mining company Molycorp to go much higher. But this morning, on news that Molycorp plans to buy 90 percent of European rare earth mining company AS Silmet, shares in Molycorp are surging.
Few expect a newly Republican-tilted Congress to do much about clean energy or climate change, so states will be 2011’s greentech incubators. A new report puts California, Oregon and Massachusetts as the top greentech states.
Can you have luxury and eco-friendliness in the same car. Lincoln says with its MKZ you can.
You may not have heard of AC Propulsion, but their technology can be found in many EVs.
Dunking servers in a bath of oil sounds like the fastest way to break some very expensive hardware, but not for startup Green Revolution Cooling, which builds energy efficient liquid-cooled servers. Its first customer, collocation firm Midas Networks, will implement the technology later this year.
Web workers necessarily conduct our business on computers. So, one of the most obvious ways for us to go green is by using eco-friendly hardware. Electronics have long been a source of pollutants, but manufacturers are now reducing the environmental impact of their products.
What’s worth watching today: The HPOA dry erase girl talks to CBS News, bowling champions face off in Germany, brilliant minds talk at TEDx Kansas, Mandy Moore wants to rid the world of malaria, and more.
Th!nk is coming to the US with this little plastic car. We get behind the wheel to see how it handles (and how fleets can use it).
A small California town best known for growing much of the world’s lettuce and being the birthplace of John Steinbeck may soon be the home of a manufacturing operation meant to be among the auto industry’s most sustainable.
Get a quick look at the web series on a mission to zero emission.
Bicycling is an extremely green mode of transportation that can be compatible with mobile professionals. Under the right conditions, biking can actually be a faster means of getting around a city and it’s certainly more fun than fighting traffic.
Improving energy efficiency is a doubly-positive proposition for any web worker: It saves money and lowers environmental impact. Whether you are plugging into your home’s outlet or working at your local hangout, options abound for saving electricity. Here are some Green Tips for improving your efficiency.
With the bloom falling evermore off the rose of corn ethanol production, a UK-based startup called Green Biologics Limited aims to swoop in and pick up some of the pieces.
Terry McAuliffe’s highest profile fundraising efforts to date have been in the political arena. But now the former Virginia gubernatorial candidate and…
In the midst of an uncertain emergence from the worst global recession since the 1930s, clean technology was stronger than ever in the first quarter of 2010. Venture investment in the clean technology sector racked up its strongest first quarter of all time, according to preliminary reports from the Cleantech Group and Deloitte, with $1.9 billion invested, up 29 percent from the previous quarter and a whopping 83 percent improvement from the doldrums of first quarter 2009. In this report, we take a look at the big market events, financial trends and shifts over the last three months, with an eye on what second quarter may bring.
Networked digital technology can lead to energy efficiency and reduced carbon emissions. That’s the underlying notion behind two sources this week, which are lauding broadband as the backbone for creating a green economy, and calling for more federal incentives to help boost broadband infrastructure.
Clean technology — which accounted for the largest share of venture capital investment in the second half of 2009 — has fared better than many other sectors in the recession. And perhaps more than any other industry, cleantech has the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to thank. The act, better known as the stimulus, set aside billions for green technologies and projects and brought attention to the goal of creating green jobs. Despite the positive impact of the economy’s negative impacts are not to be understated. The recession has shuffled the deck for clean technologies — strengthening some companies’ hands while weakening others’ — and spurred new thinking about how to make progress, even when traditional financing is harder to come by. It’s not yet clear who the winners and losers will be, and whether the lessons learned during this time will leave the industry, as a whole, better or worse off. But it’s obvious that big changes are happening, and it’s become increasingly important to understand the new sources of capital — and the new challenges in raising money from traditional sources — for companies and technologies to succeed. Based on the most recent available data on venture capital investment, angel investment, private equity, project finance and federal stimulus funding, as well as in-depth interviews with dozens of sector experts, this report looks at what the year ahead holds for cleantech companies at all stages of their development.
Lately, I’ve been hearing too many people talk about what people must do. If you start a blog, you must post three or four times every week. Your company must engage in conversations on
PALM SPRINGS, CALIF. — Reed Hundt is widely known for being the first chairman of the Federal Communications Commission to lead a…
On Monday we noted four greentech firms that had filed fund-raising documents or had made announcements about new financing rounds. But by…
Updated: Alternative-energy companies not only compete with each other, they also compete in a sense with oil firms. While it’s easy to…
A recent effort from startups is under way to move liquid cooling from the computer enthusiast realm into the commercial data center…
The Clean Development Mechanism — a market structure launched in early 2006 by the United Nations to help industrialized nations gain and…
Danfoss IXA of Denmark has a simple idea for changing the way greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants are managed in industrial environments:…
Yep, there are actually 22 firms selling software to help companies and governments manage their carbon footprints. And most of them are…
Consumer demand will fuel a drastic surge in environmentally sustainable handsets, which could see worldwide shipments swell to 485 million by 2014…
I’ve never understood why biofuels get so much more attention than the sister biz of bioplastics — blending agricultural waste and other…
Watercolor, ice climbing, underwater basketweaving — you can pay someone to teach you (or your kids) anything these days — and now,…
Ocean power has suffered some setbacks recently, such as Pelamis’ bellyflop in Portugal and the UK’s WaveHub losing a developer, but the…
Another technology venture looking to capture carbon dioxide and use it to grow algae has thrown itself into the ring. BioProcessAlgae, a…
As expected, cleantech venture capital investing in the first quarter of 2009 looks as bad as Ugly Betty, with none of the…
U.S. green building rating systems have so far largely failed to address renovations of existing homes, in particular so-called multifamily dwellings like…
Who needs font management? If you have ever installed additional fonts on your Mac, then you do. Because of the Mac’s wide…
Intel is using an indirect, green-tinged strategy to sell more chips these days, attempting to convince governments that are spending billions in…
Despite a significant drop cleantech startups investments in the fourth quarter, 2008 still delivered a record level of investment for the cleantech…
The Conservative Party in the UK is ringing in the new year with a call to boost funding for clean technology startups,…
I attended the Sustainable Industries Economic Forum in San Francisco this morning, where green jobs guru Van Jones’ opening remarks kicked off…
Burnaby, British Columbia-based startup NxtGen Emission Controls said today it has raised $15.4 million to commercialize its first products for retrofitting diesel engines, which they say reduce emissions and fuel consumption.
A new report says Oregon and Washington could create more than 63,000 new cleantech jobs over the next decade and a half, in industries like solar manufacturing, wind development, smart-grid technology, and green building design.
[qi:_earth2tech] Google has taken such an enthusiastic role in investing and promoting clean energy that, in terms of number of deals, the…
Google has taken such an enthusiastic role in investing and promoting clean energy that the search engine giant was the second most…
Even as the Senate plans to vote on the financial bailout on Wednesday and the credit crunch is starting to threaten many…
No wonder cleantech investors are standing behind Obama in droves. In his monumental speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president at the…
Tangent, a company that makes computers for fields like healthcare, business and education, has just rolled out a new computer model dubbed…
The smoggy skies of Beijing might not clear up, but plenty of clean technologies have been deployed in preparation for the Olympic…
Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson penned a piece in today’s Washington Post that pushes the president’s…
Solar energy is one of the most abundant resources out there, but how much electricity can we realistically expect to get from…
[qi:_earth2tech]The Earth2Tech Team grabbed some camera time with Google.org’s director for climate change and energy initiatives, Dan Reicher, at Google’s conference in…
It’s easy to forget that the average web worker’s skills and knowhow is quite specialized, even though Internet use is growing gradually over the years. Your colleagues might have Facebook accounts, but do they know how to use it for networking? Likewise, a client may have an existing website, but have they maximized its potential? You might have been brought in to deal with the tech issues, or you may have some ideas on how to make things work better. How do you do your job well if those around you aren’t as knowledgeable in your web working ways?
The oh-so-obvious solution to use a Windows Mobile handheld as a Sideshow device has finally poked its head out of the rabbit…
Last week, several important players in the computing industry got together at the Green Grid Technical Forum to continue trying to come…
[qi:_earth2tech] Earth2Tech: As Iowa gets its caucus on, Earth2Tech checks out the candidates’ stance on what we think is one of the…
Holy cow! Do I really leave for the CES in Las Vegas at the end of this week? I’m not prepared just…
Among free productivity application suites that can save you from shelling out money for Microsoft’s Office suite, GoogleDocs and OpenOffice tend to…
Jenn Lee at pocketables recently took a 5 hour flight and used her HTC Advantage for the duration of the flight to…
The Weather Channel is expanding its online video offerings this week with Football Forecast, according to MediaWeek. Hosted by journalist Tim Liatta,…
Revver, which has seen the departure of many of its prominent founders, employees, and content producers, tonight announced its final remaining founder,…
Akihabara News reports today of a new mystery convertible Tablet PC-like device, the SA1F00A from Japan-based Kohjinsha. They haven’t uncovered much yet…
Who says video-sharing sites can’t go public? GoFish (which has reshaped itself as destination instead of a search engine these days) said…
Like its devices, network digital music device maker Slim Devices is moving up in the world. The company has just moved to…
Microsoft has recently upgraded the free synchronization tool SyncToys to version 1.2. New features include: The ability to type in a UNC…
ThinkPad manufacturer Lenovo is reportedly developing a Windows Mobile smarphone. PhoneDaily (Chinese site) reports that the Lenovo ET980 will support GPRS, play…
The Smoking Gun says Robert McCormick, 40, and three guests ran up the tab during a visit to the Scores nightclub in…
I have been trying to sync Nokia 6620 with my iCal and not much success. It seems the support on iSync is…
Bit Torrent consumes a third of the Internet bandwidth. What with Bush winning, bad news is getting worse for Hollywood. “I don’t…
Yesterday, I did a quick summation of a report from ABI research on how broadband gateways were good for DSL guys. Well…