There's been an explosion of interest in web-sharing services, a growing movement of lending and bartering services that create economical and sustainable consumption methods. Take a few minutes to tell us how you feel about this movement in our new survey, and maybe even win prizes.…
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VIDEO: How Zipcar’s IPO Will Affect P2P Car Sharing
Zipcar's stock is still flying high after the car sharing company debuted on the Nasdaq last month. To the CEO of neighbor-to-neighbor car sharing startup RelayRides, Shelby Clark, Zipcar's IPO has shown investors that there's real money to be made in car sharing.…
Read MoreVIDEO: Making the Grid Smarter With Energy Finger Prints
While many smart grid technologies use wireless networks, Power Tagging has developed a way to fingerprint energy on the grid using digital signal processing. At Green:Net last week, I interviewed John LoPorto, CEO of Power Tagging, which was one of our 10 Big Ideas winners.…
Read MoreVIDEO: Making Money Off Of Capturing Waste Heat
Capturing waste heat from systems and turning it into usable power could be a good way to collect money. Watch my interview with Phononic Devices founder, CEO and President, Anthony Atti, from the sidelines of GreenNet last week.…
Read MoreVIDEO: Energy Storage for the Off-Grid World
Listen to Fenix International founder and CEO Mike Lin talk about Fenix International's ReadySet energy storage device that is delivering power to the off-grid world.…
Read MoreVIDEO: Big Data Meets Connected Cars
On the sidelines of our Green:Net event last week, I did a series of video interviews with our 10 Big Ideas companies. First up is a startup marrying big data and connected cars: Virtual Vehicle Company.…
Read More20 Photos From Green:Net 2011
In case you missed all the action at our third annual Green:Net event last week, we'll be pulling together the photos, videos and presentations from the event over the coming week. Here are 20 of my favorite photos from the show:…
Read MoreTesla and Coda: There’s Space for Indie EV Car Makers
Making all-electric vehicles is easier if you haven't been building gas guzzlers for the better part of a century: That's the mantra put firth by representatives from Tesla and CODA. Both said today at GigaOM's Green:Net conference that there is space for indie EV car makers.…
Read MoreCisco Wants Intelligent Networks to Become the Fourth Utility
Connected networks that analyse traffic, weather and other conditions will tell the office worker of the future if it makes economic sense to make the trip to their headquarter, or wether they should work remotely. All this is part of networks becoming the fourth utility.…
Read MoreGoogle Green Czar: No Moore’s Law for Data Center Efficiency
In an afternoon chat today at Green:Net, Google Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl explained that the future of data center efficiency will not come from improved data center designs themselves, but from more-efficient hardware and cleaner sources of energy.…
Read More10 Digital Energy Innovators from Green:Net 2011
For this year's Green:Net, a team of GigaOM editors and industry insiders chose 10 innovators in the digital energy space to present their "big ideas" for using information technology to fight climate change. Here are some of the insights they shared.…
Read MoreStartups Take Sharing Beyond the Sandbox
As kids, we were all taught to share our favorite toys. At Green:Net Shelby Clark from RelayRides and Joe Gebbia from Airbnb talked about how their companies are leveraging the power of social media to take sharing into the grown-up world.…
Read MoreDOE Loan Chief: Budget Changes Are Favorable to the Program
There was some concern that the Department of Energy's loan program would fall victim to budget cuts. But at GigaOM's Green:Net conference Thursday, DOE Loan Chief Jonathan Silver said that despite those fears, changes in the new budget have actually been somewhat favorable to the program.…
Read MoreCleaner Power and Smart Grid Requires Clear Sales Pitch for Consumers
The future of the power grid is combining clean energy together with the intelligence of the smart grid. But kickstarting that convergence requires some serious salesmanship to convince consumers of the benefit, as NRG Energy's David Crane and Silver Spring Networks said at Green:Net.…
Read MoreWithout Energy Literacy, Conservation Efforts Are Flying Blind
If you want to change something, first you have to measure it, and when it comes to energy consumption and generation we don't have the tools yet to do either. But as Saul Griffith said at Green:Net, we're still in the dark ages for energy literacy.…
Read MoreGreen:Net 2011 Live Coverage
Today, at our third-annual Green:Net event, we're looking at digital energy: how technology can reduce energy consumption and help the environment. The livestream begins at 8:25 PT, and we'll update this post throughout the day with the liveblogs from the event.…
Read MoreWhere to Watch Green:Net Live Online
Do you think companies like Facebook, Twitter and Amazon should clean up their acts and stop using coal? Are you into electric vehicles? Do you want to know what's next in the clean energy market? Then tune into the live stream of GigaOM's Green:Net conference.…
Read MoreEnergy Enters the Internet Age Tomorrow at Green:Net!
On the day before Earth Day (tomorrow!), the place to be is: Green:Net 2011! Our third annual Green:Net event, which focuses on digital energy and how information technology can be used to create a green economy, kicks off tomorrow bright and early.…
Read MoreViridity Energy Takes Demand Response to Military Bases
Viridity Energy is competing for a Defense Department contract to control power use at federal and military facilities, and has already signed up one military base customer. That's a big prize for a startup, if it can scale to match its demands.…
Read MoreGreen:Net 2011 Is This Week!
In the run-up to Earth Day on Friday, here's the must attend event of the week: our third annual Green:Net event! OK, you can tell I'm a little excited about it.…
Read MoreCisco Unveils New Cloud Data Center, Touts Efficiency
Cisco today took the covers off a new Allen, Texas, data center that will serve as the foundation for Cisco's private cloud computing effort, which it calls Cisco Elastic IT Services. The new data center is designed for maximum efficiency and to withstand tornado winds.…
Read MoreGreen:Net: Connected Cities Are Sustainable Cities
At Green:Net next week, we'll be exploring how adding IT technologies to anything from the power grid, to data centers, to buildings, to lighting can lead to energy efficiency and a more sustainable consumption of increasingly-constrained resources.…
Read MoreThe Year of the Car as a Service Has Arrived
With Zipcar's expected public market debut today, the year of the car as a service (in contrast to personal ownership) has arrived. Internet and mobile technology is the platform for cars as a service in a world with increasingly constrained resources.…
Read More10 Things Not to Miss At Green:Net 2011
Our third annual Green:Net event is coming up on April 21 (yep, next week!) and we're getting really excited about all the great speakers, announcements and discussions that will go on. Here's a cheat sheet of 10 things you can't miss at the show.…
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