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UNDER:Us
November 21st, 2006
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UNDER:Us
November 21st, 2006
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UNDER:clean tech
November 17th, 2006
Inc.com has a nice feature profiling 50 (US) companies doing interesting stuff in the green space.
A company called Nanosolar seem to have cracked a way to, in effect, “print” solar cells, reducing the cost and offering a more versatile alternative to traditional panels.
Grist has an interesting article, Transforming the automobile about the future of the car and some of the options available and another on how the media is changing its approach to climate change reporting.
Treehugger features a new solar powered phone from DoCoMo as well as a link to The Waste Book, a directory of recycling businesses.
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UNDER:clean tech, I want one
November 17th, 2006
So, 0 to 60mph in 4 seconds, 130mph top speed and… it’s electric. This is the Tesla Roadster and I want one.

To me, it looks a bit like a Lotus Elise – which is no bad thing (the site has some nice eye candy on it). It has a 250 mile range which counters one of the real limitations of previous electric cars. The only problem is that it’s left hand drive… oh, and comes in at about $100k… and it’s sold out anyway. But if it wasn’t for all that…
Here’s some video taken at the launch:
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UNDER:clean tech
November 17th, 2006
Treehugger has an item on IBM’s new green research unit.
From Treehugger:
The currently unnamed business unit will focus on ideas that will directly benefit the environment, develop them, market them and implement them.
Read the rest here.
(BTW, if anyone involved on this at IBM would like some help from a really good creative agency I know, click here to get in touch.)
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UNDER:clean tech
November 17th, 2006
A press release from the Cleantech Venture Network has started to place some estimates for the VC opportunity for clean tech over the next few years. From the release:
…the Cleantech Venture Network® forecasts that cleantech venture capital investment opportunities for major institutional investors globally through 2009 are estimated at $17 billion, with $10 billion in North America, $5 billion in Europe and $2 billion for the rest of the world.
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UNDER:open source, software
November 16th, 2006
There has been a raft of interesting articles and posts lately looking at alternatives to traditional desktop-based software. Some, like the people at Vitamin, are looking to reduce the cost by moving to a primarily open source solution. Others, like Sam at TechCrunch UK, are exploring the web OS approach, taking advantage of the plethora of new web-based apps that are springing up (and generally being bought by Google). And yet others are cautioning that there is a need for both desktop and web-based software.
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UNDER:marketing
November 13th, 2006
Faris at Talent imitates, genius steals has some thoughts on selling new technologies. He points out how most tech companies are in essence run by engineers who love technology for technology’s sake and how this leads to the kind of technobabble communications that have typified the industry for so long.
This kind of speeds and feeds approach of course means very little to those outside the early adopter community. In mass markets, most people’s eyes simply glaze over when faced by the likes of a “256MB PCI Express ATI RADEON X1300 Pro graphics card” or any of the other components that make up many of today’s tech products.
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UNDER:clean tech
November 6th, 2006
The conclusions of the Stern Report are frightening by anyone’s standards:
And this is just the beginning.