Skyline Solar doubles its power
Skyline Solar says it has developed a way to make concentrating photovoltaic systems that double the power production of its first-generation systems.The company unveiled its new system, called the...
View ArticleET Water scores funds for smart water
Water startups don’t get much venture capital love.Blame the artificially low cost of water, complex regulations or the slow pace of change of utilities, but investment in water technologies has been a...
View ArticleUSDA unveils label for biobased products
Get ready to see another ecolabel on store shelves.This one’s coming to you courtesy of the feds. On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture unveiled the first products that will bear its new...
View ArticleAg startups see green
Startups coming up with ways to feed an increasingly hungry planet reaped almost $74 million in venture capital investments in this year’s first quarter, says Kachan & Co., a San Francisco clean...
View ArticleGo fish
When the United States Department of Agriculture earlier this year doubled its recommendations about how much seafood Americans should eat, it may have been doing a favor to the country’s hearts and...
View ArticleBuilding efficiency
If California is going to meet its ambitious energy efficiency goals, it’s going to have to retrofit more than its building stock – the state’s workforce needs an overhaul, too, in the form of...
View ArticleWill Zipcar's hot IPO pave the way for car sharing startups?
Zipcar’s better-than-anticipated Nasdaq debut this week may be good news for the country’s biggest name in car sharing. It could also help jumpstart a small crew of startups offering a new twist on the...
View ArticleWastewater innovation doesn’t have to be hidden from view
The American Institute of Architects and its Committee on the Environment released its top ten green projects of the last year, praising designers trying out new ideas during a rough economy....
View ArticleClean tech, meet the CleanWeb
Get ready for the CleanWeb.That was the message of veteran clean tech investor Sunil Paul, founder of Spring Ventures, speaking at GigaOM’s Green:Net conference in San Francisco on Thursday.What is the...
View ArticleRemote control
Ed Pleet says the cell phone is the center of people’s universe.Not a total surprise, considering Pleet is a developer for Ford Motor Co.’s (NYSE: F) connectivity group, and one of the people behind a...
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