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The Green Enterprise: Autodesk
Autodesk tools aim to help designers conceptualize projects on a computer before starting the costly (and energy-intense) production process. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das takes ...
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Car-friendly outlets pave way for electric driving
At the AlwaysOn Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Praveen Mandal, president of Coulomb Technologies, outlines the difficulties in finding places to plug ...
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Foam finds new life
At the AlwaysOn Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., J. Brian Hennessy, chief marketing officer of Mobius Technologies, explains how the company has ...
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Refining vegetable oil into diesel fuel
At the AlwaysOn Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Peter Bell, co-founder of Renewable Fuel Products, explains that his company's reactors are small ...
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The cost of creating solar cells
At the Always On Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., a panel of solar energy executives debates whether or not silicon prices will ...
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PARC VP: Lowering costs with clean tech
Scott Elrod, VP of the hardware systems lab at PARC, says that lowering costs is key in clean tech. By looking at their ink ...
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The Green Enterprise: California Academy of Sciences
Since 1853, the California Academy of Sciences has been considered one of the world's most respected institutions. Now more than 150 years later, it's ...
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SF Bay Area plugs in
The mayors of the San Francisco Bay Area's three largest cities gathered Thursday to announce their ambitious new initiatives to make the region the ...
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San Jose mayor announces 'green' award recipients
At a press conference in San Jose, Calif., Mayor Chuck Reed announces the winners of the inaugural Green Vision Innovation awards. The awards are ...
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'60 Minutes': Crew comes under attack (Part 4)
Scott Pelley and his crew are attacked and threatened with violence by area gangsters who don't want the e-waste story told.
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'60 Minutes': Toxins inside your computer (Part 3)
Scientists discuss e-waste, the fastest-growing component of the municipal waste stream worldwide, and the impact it has on those whose lives depend on it.
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'60 Minutes': Walking through a toxic village (Part 2)
Piles of electronics blanket the Chinese countryside waiting to be recycled.
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'60 Minutes': Cleaning up recycling (Part 1)
Scott Pelley takes a tour of GRX, a Denver electronic waste recycling company, that is a member of 'E-Stewards.' That's a stringent program run ...
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Clean Tech Open entrepreneurs win big
In a relatively inhospitable economy for tech start-ups, the Clean Tech Open and its six $100,000 cash prizes are like oases in the desert. ...
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John Doerr: How Obama can kick start 'green' innovation
Kleiner Perkins VC John Doerr discusses his views on clean tech at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. "The most important thing" that ...
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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 ...
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Getting green with Cisco's 'footprint' 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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Steve Jurvetson: Green nano solutions
At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson describes the acceleration of computer and genetic technology through Moore's ...
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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.
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The future, reusable paper
At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Las Vegas, Steve Hoover, vice president with Xerox Research Center Webster, shows off a technology being developed in the company's labs that enables people to reuse a piece of paper. The paper contains a photochromic compound that makes ink disappear when hit by direct heat.
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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.
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'60 Minutes': Toxins inside your computer (Part 3)
Scientists discuss e-waste, the fastest-growing component of the municipal waste stream worldwide, and the impact it has on those whose lives depend on it.
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'60 Minutes': Crew comes under attack (Part 4)
Scott Pelley and his crew are attacked and threatened with violence by area gangsters who don't want the e-waste story told.
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Harnessing the power of waves
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom believes tapping into tidal and wave power is a swell idea. But how feasible and realistic is this new renewable-energy technology? CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi sits down with the mayor to find out.
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'60 Minutes': Walking through a toxic village (Part 2)
Piles of electronics blanket the Chinese countryside waiting to be recycled.
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'60 Minutes': Cleaning up recycling (Part 1)
Scott Pelley takes a tour of GRX, a Denver electronic waste recycling company, that is a member of 'E-Stewards.' That's a stringent program run by a watchdog group, The Basel Action Network, to certify ethical recyclers who do not ship their toxic materials overseas.
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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.
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Solar power as cheap as fossil fuels?
Charlie Gay, general manager of Applied Materials' solar business, speaks to CNET News.com's Martin LaMonica about solar industry dynamics at the Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. Gay, who has worked in the business for over 30 years, says large-scale manufacturing will bring down the price of solar electricity. Investments will result in incremental improvements in panel efficiency, rather than huge technology breakthroughs, he says.
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