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  • The lightbulb of the future?

    The lightbulb of the future?

    Silicon Valley's Luxim has developed a lightbulb the size of a Tic Tac that gives off as much light as a streetlight. News.com's Michael Kanellos talks to the company about its technology and its plans to expand into various markets.

    Tags: Lightbulb, Personal Technology

    Date: 03-18-08 Length: 00:01:34

  • Which solar technology will survive?

    Which solar technology will survive?

    At the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco, Todd Glass of Heller Ehrman moderates a discussion on the various solar technologies making a difference in the green movement. From thin film PVs to concentrating solar, which technology is best-suited for deployment on a utility scale? Attempting to answer this question are panelists Peter Duprey, CEO at Acciona; Ricardo Angel, senior vice president at GE Energy Financial Services; and Fong Wan, vice president of energy procurement at PG&E.

    Tags: Technology, Purchasing & Procurement, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Business Operations, Finance, Green

    Date: 03-12-08 Length: 00:06:58

  • Fill your car for $1.10 a gallon?

    Fill your car for $1.10 a gallon?

    Menlo Park, Calif.'s ZeaChem has come up with a way to turn wood chips into ethanol that will sell for around $1.10 a gallon or less when it comes out in 2010. Brewing and petrochemical technology go into the mix. News.com Editor at Large Michael Kanellos talks with founder Dan Verser and CEO James Imbler about their plans for cheap fuel.

    Tags: wood, fuel, michael kanellos, green, ethanol

    Date: 03-11-08 Length: 00:01:43

  • Biotech for food, fuel

    Biotech for food, fuel

    At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., J. Craig Venter says going from food to fuel--corn to ethanol--is taking resources in the wrong direction. He discusses oil palm and the jatropha genome as future fuel possibilities, and talks about algae as a way to convert carbon back into a useful chemical.

    Tags: Food & Beverage, Biotechnology, Manufacturing, green, bioengineering, oil, food, algae, carbon, energy

    Date: 09-18-08 Length: 00:03:35

  • Getting green with Cisco's 'footprint' tool

    Getting green with Cisco%27s %27footprint%27 tool

    At the Green Legal Strategy panel in San Francisco, John Hailey, Cisco's senior manager of sustainable development, shows off the company's "Environmental Data" tool available for free on the company's Web site. He says Cisco is committed to reducing its own footprint by 25 percent by 2012, taking into account growth, which may mean up to a 50 percent reduction of its greenhouse gases.

    Tags: Footprint, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Cisco, green, footprint

    Date: 10-28-08 Length: 00:03:44

  • Making the case for green IT

    Making the case for green IT

    At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., technology executives discuss the motives behind going green. Jim Swartz, chief information officer of Sybase, says smaller and more energy-efficient technology is cost-effective. Rob Ober, an LSI fellow, says the issue is more complicated: IT managers can buy a more efficient machine every two years, but no one has yet figured out what to do with the old ones.

    Tags: Green IT, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, technology, green, IT, energy, efficient

    Date: 09-19-08 Length: 00:04:11

  • Green leases allow tenants to be sustainable

    Green leases allow tenants to be sustainable

    At the Green Legal Strategy panel in San Francisco, Louise Adamson, a partner at K&L Gates, explains the commercial interiors certification within the LEED program--tenants are able to certify their workspace separate from the building and landlord. She says, however, that creating a truly green lease requires a holistic approach with your entire team, not just a few add-on provisions at the end.

    Tags: Tenant, green, legal, lease, rental, sustainable, LEED, tenant, landlord

    Date: 10-29-08 Length: 00:04:13

  • Green tech: Just hype?

    Green tech: Just hype?

    ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to Editor in Chief Larry Dignan about whether IT managers will continue putting capital behind green tech if the economy continues to slow down. Dignan adds that there is currently too much "green" marketing in the tech industry, and he questions the effectiveness of those campaigns.

    Tags: Larry Dignan, Green Technology, Green

    Date: 10-01-08 Length: 00:03:30

  • The Green Enterprise: Cisco

    The Green Enterprise: Cisco

    Networking giant Cisco Systems has a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its operations by 25 percent in the next four years--with the help of technologies it's created. Cisco also wants to help customers do the same. Correspondent Sumi Das looks at green innovations at Cisco, including: an HD video-conferencing system, energy-efficient data centers, and a new office environment that encourages employees to work from unassigned spaces.

    Tags: Greenhouse Gas, Cisco Systems Inc., Video-conferencing, Green, Cisco, Telepresence, Wi-Fi enabled bus, energy efficient datacenters, Sumi Das, John Chambers

    Date: 08-14-08 Length: 00:13:00

  • Traditional bike with electric zip

    Traditional bike with electric zip

    It's environmentally friendly like a traditional bicycle, but it has the zip of a scooter. Getting 20 miles per charge with a max cruising speed of 20 mph, Ultra Motor's new electric bike doesn't come cheap, at $2,600.

    Tags: bicycle, max, green

    Date: 08-06-08 Length: 00:01:49

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