David Ehrlich | posted on December 23, 2008

 

Chris Morrison | posted on November 7, 2008

 

The California Cleantech Open (CCTO), a yearly competition to identify some of the hottest new startups in green technology, has wrapped up its 2008 session with six winners, each in its own business sector. The six were chosen from 43 finalists, who were in turn drawn from a larger pool.

The CCTO has grown to be a significant event, in part because its sponsors read like a Who’s Who of good contacts to have (Google and the Department of Energy being two), and because each winner gets $100,000 in startup money, as well as, newly this year, membership in a San Jose city incubator called the Environmental Business Cluster and a year’s worth of business services.

Atop the various goodies, the winners — and some of the better runners-up — typically go on to get significant amounts of venture funding. Below are the winners: …read full discussion

Jorge Chapa | posted on September 23, 2008

 

In our last article (the Car of the Future), we posed the question ‘Is the search for a more environmentally friendly vehicle in the technology of the engine, or in the makeup of the vehicle itself?’ We posed the question to drive the conversation beyond miles-per-gallon, and into other areas of energy efficiency in transportation design. Think of the hyper-milers, people who can get extreme efficiency from their own vehicles. What if we could make our own driving habits so efficient that we could all achieve such mileage? Even better, what if your vehicle was smart enough to do it for you? …read full discussion

Jorge Chapa | posted on September 16, 2008

How many times have you been frustrated by road rage? Do you feel uncomfortable in your car after using it for hours? Do you feel safe inside it? Did you know that on average, drivers spend around 3 hours per day inside their vehicles? It therefore becomes important to think of vehicles as not only a device that can take you from one place to the next, but as space in which we spend a lot of time – and a space which should make us comfortable and help improve our lives. The car of the future will not only be zero emissions in operation, it will be zero-emissions during its creation, as well as healthy, comfortable and toxin-free. …read full discussion

Best of the Green Web | posted on September 9, 2008

 

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, has unveiled a new community for sharing knowledge about environmental topics: Wikia Green. It is hosted on his for-profit wiki hosting service Wikia, and it currently has over 600 articles. …read full discussion