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More on e-Papers…

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

A friend of mine forwarded this article from Business Week to me — personally, as I sit here today doing analysis of a few companies for clients in need of competitive market research, you can’t beat being able to print out information from a website…but – it’s an idea with it’s time…check out the article [...]

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Co-Combustion of Biosolids Reviewed…

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

ACS has published a peer review of biosolids, appraising 5 co-combustion scenarios with policy analysis.
http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sample.cgi/esthag/2006/40/i03/html/es052181g.html 
Here’s a major part of the piece, minus that tables.  It’s worth the read.
Environ. Sci. Technol., 40 (3), 649 -658, 2006. 10.1021/es052181g S0013-936X(05)02181-4 Web Release Date: December 20, 2005
Copyright [...]

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Air Purifying Paper….

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

The Japanese always come up with the most interesting ideas…I found this on www.greatnewsnetwork.org last night:
Japanese Companies Develop Air-Purifying Paper
Japan for Sustainability, 5 hours, 51 minutes ago Tokyo – Nippon Paper Industries Co. has partnered with Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun to developed newsprint coated with photocatalytic titanium oxide. When the paper is [...]

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Air Purifying Paper….

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

The Japanese always come up with the most interesting ideas…
Japanese Companies Develop Air-Purifying Paper
Japan for Sustainability, 5 hours, 51 minutes ago Tokyo – Nippon Paper Industries Co. has partnered with Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun to developed newsprint coated with photocatalytic titanium oxide. When the paper is exposed to the sun’s ultraviolet rays, it [...]

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Solfocus

Friday, February 17th, 2006

Solar May Get Cheaper (http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=15764&hed=Solar+May+Get+Cheaper)
SolFocus says that its concentrator photovoltaics will cost only half the price of competing solar PV technologies.February 16, 2006

The high price of solar panels has slowed the wide-scale adoption of solar energy, but news Thursday that a partnership could make half-priced solar power commercially available in a year may help change [...]

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Konarka’s Power Plastic

Friday, February 17th, 2006

Thanks to my very dear friend Nicole Kidd, who sent me a release updating me on the latest with Konarka.
This is a fascinating company.  And I need to get my friend James Timberlake talking with them because as an architect, and one of the architects behind Smartwrap.
Konarka’s technology would very easily, if I’m correct, fit [...]

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2006 Tech Pioneers Cited By the World Economic Forum

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

http://www.weforum.org/site/homepublic.nsf/Content/Technology+Pioneers%5C2006+Tech+Pioneers

Each year, the World Economic Forum identifies pioneering technology companies from around the world that develop and apply the most innovative and transformational technologies in the fields of information technology, renewable energy and biotechnology / health. Between 30 and 50 companies are identified as Technology Pioneers.  This year, as always, some very interesting technology companies [...]

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About those non-stick pans of yours…

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Posted in The Green Guide today…http://www.thegreenguide.com/doc.mhtml?i=ask&s=nonstick

For all of you interested in what happens to the fluoropolymers which compose the ‘nonstick’ in your pans… 

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Thank politics, the scientific community and a renewed altruism in consumers and investors for the interest in investing in clean water technologies…

Monday, February 13th, 2006

http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=15565&hed=Next+Cleantech+Star%3A+Water%3F&sector=Capital&subsector=EconomyAndPolicy

While it’s not really stated here in this article, it’s interesting to think about what’s pushed the investing herd to put a lot more of a push behind clean technogies than we’ve seen in the past several years. I had my head in other things — keeping my job at the time, as long as [...]

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A Better Way To Desalinate Water?

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

http://www.njit.edu/publicinfo/press_releases/release_830.php.

Check this out…pretty cool, eh? 

NJIT Professor Discovers Better Way To Desalinate Water

NEWARK, Feb. 9 [...]

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IBF Clean Tech Conference Upcoming

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

Just a quick note on the upcoming IBF conference again…I should have said something earlier, just have been running to keep up with everything on my plate lately.  I wanted to mention that Ira Ehrenpreis – whose known for being able to be in about 10 places at once it seems, is chairing this event, [...]

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Water Stock Watch List…

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

Brand new…check it out.  
http://waterstockblog.com/stocks.html, courtesy of AltEnergyStocks.com, a website resource which, along with its related publications and other services (collectively, the "Website"), is edited and written by Mark Anderson, published by MDA Holdings LLC.

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Technology incubator devoted solely to water gets privatized…

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

Israeli VC meets clean tech

Israeli venture capital will raise $300 million for water technologies

Merav Ankori    6 Feb 06   13:30

Very interesting article.
Sources inform ”Globes” that a few months ago, six venture capital funds began to raise over $300 million to be channeled for water solutions. One of these funds [...]

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On bottled water…

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

Believe me, I am a fan of Trinity Water; having grown up on Oregon mountain water, I’ve had to adjust to the taste of a lot of different tap water over time – from Chicago, to Wisconsin, Frankfurt to New York and London. I think we have some of the best tap water around right [...]

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Clean Tech Capital Group Publishes Clean Tech Index

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Taken straight from the release that came into my inbox the other day…
The Cleantech Capital Group LLC announced today it has entered into an Agreement with the American Stock Exchange to begin publishing the Cleantech Index: a new index comprised of publicly traded companies engaged in the cleantech industry. 
The Cleantech [...]

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