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Kleiner Perkins, the monolith of venture capital, released a 1.2B dollar green fund, and yet, what is the likely result? Clean tech companies getting big, fat, juicy checks. Mind you, one of these clean tech ideas will revolutionize the way energy is produced and therefore help to transform our society, but isn’t there more to “green” than energy generation and storage? The question on my mind is whether VCs are genuinely good for the sustainability movement, outside of the clean tech arena. The answer: probably not. If you’re a clean tech company, possibly. If you have a truly altruistic company that shouldn’t have a 3 year horizon on an investment, emphatic no.
So, given that, where do you go for money if you’re a green company looking for success without VCs? The answer: nowhere. Angels likely won’t "get" your company and finding one that does is often like the proverbial needle in a haystack; most VCs won’t care and you likely don’t have the dough yourself. The result: get a job and leave the green stuff to the big boys.
But, wait, the big boys aren’t getting it done either. When was the last time you were genuinely affected by a newly funded, market-penetrating green company (especially an online play)? Do we simply give up on the sustainability movement like Adam Werbach poignantly alluded to in his seminal “Is Environmentalism Dead?”
European Cars are being remodelled to achieve lower emissions targets. [read more]
Last month, at the Natural and Organic Products Festival in London, Chicza Organic Chewing Gum received the award for best...[read more]
food riots and the causes behind high food prices.[read more]
If you've ever been on a road trip, you've probably seen this sight at a rest stop: one, or many...[read more]
Real estate development, like every other part of the U.S. economy, is starting to change, to adapt to a new,...[read more]
With the rising cost of power, and the greater awareness of the human impact on the environment, home solar power...[read more]
If there is any doubt about the promise and feasibility of renewable energy, consider its true source – human innovation...[read more]
Tuesday night, sustainability leaders from all over the Bay Area made their way to the Berkeley facility of Clif Bar...[read more]
They say when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Well in the case of P2P Rescue, they've done just that,...[read more]
Two significant and contrasting news items related to climate change and energy appear in the April 23 edition of the International Herald Tribune: Europe will increasingly rely on coal to meet its growing electricity needs while two US VCs team up with Norway’s ThinkGlobal to manufacture recyclable, emissions-free electric vehicles in California.[read more]
Smart Glass Jewelry has launched a "recycled line." In this case, "Recycled" as in glass accessories form sources as broad...[read more]
Growing concerns about aging and inadequate water and wastewater treatment infrastructure and technology is spurring investment in a wide range of new companies, such as Aqwise, looking to take advantage of natural means and processes to devise new and cheaper means of ecological wastewater treatment and sanitation.[read more]
Tropical shrimp. Netherlands. Sustainable. What do these words have to do with each other? They describe what and where...[read more]
"How can we make the world a better place? One electric car at a time." That’s the driving force (if...[read more]
“Sustainability is the Opportunity”-Jeff Mendelsohn, Founder and President of New Leaf Paper Last evening Triple Pundit founder Nick Aster and I...[read more]
GridPoint Inc.and Duke Energy announced positive results from what is believed to be the first commercial test of utility-controlled “smart charging” for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs).[read more]
The words sustainability and business phone service don't often get put together, other then, say, consumer long distance and...[read more]
Foresters, climatolgists and environmental agencies are devoting much time and effort to figure out a way to include deforestation abatement into the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development and carbon trading schemes. A recently released discussion paper examines the potential effects carbon credits would have on forest conservation and use.[read more]
Israel’s southernmost Eilot region is a special place in several respects. For one, the desert blooms here, thanks to an aquifer that has turned it into an agricultural center. It also holds a unique place in the hearts and minds of the world’s birds, ornithologists and birding enthusiasts, as it in the migratory route for hundreds of species making their way north to Eurasia and their breeding grounds. It’s also a budding center of entrepreneurial spirit and renewable energy, home to the Arava Power Co., which is hatching plans to build a 500 kWhr solar farm on Kibbutz Ketura.[read more]
The Sustainable Brands Conference is coming to Monterey California this June 2nd to the 5th at the Hyatt Regency. Innovators, entrepreneurs,...[read more]
Tesla President and CEO Ze'ev Drori wrote in his blog today that regular production of the Tesla Roadster has...[read more]
This is a guest post was written by Bobby Grace, a student in Professor Simran Sethi’s Media and the...[read more]
Ask yourself this: How many devices in your house use batteries? How often do they need to get replaced?...[read more]
Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge website published an article this week called Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs. If...[read more]
GreenLoop, the website for your green apparel, accessory and footwear needs. It is a portal to eco-friendly poducts for...[read more]
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