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The Th!nk Ox From Norway

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

My younger brother just called from Oslo. Business has him running all around Europe at the moment, it seems, though I know he’s happy to have a pitstop in Norway because it reminds him of home, where we both grew up.
We were talking about the Ox while chatting. If you haven’t [...]

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Cities Requiring Solar, Global Warming Scores for Cars, Vertical Farm Designs, and Water

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Because I found a few things of interest over the weekend, I thought I’d point you in the direction of each of those stories.
Solar Will Soon Be The Law – In One German City. More here. You know, I was recycling and buying milk in plastic bags in Germany back in [...]

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Sustainable Brands ‘08 – Conversations with Companies

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Wrapping up the blog I started last week, I’m dribbling in this week snapshots from conversations I had during briefings while at Sustainable Brands ‘08…more below…
AMD – Green(er) Technology & The Greening of Data Centers
You might not know that the EPA recently honored AMD for its efforts to protect the Earth’s climate and stratospheric ozone [...]

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Greener World Media Secures Series A, Announces Management Team Additions

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

From Greener World Media’s website – news I was happy to hear:
Greener World Media Announces Series A Round, Expansion of Management Team
K Group commits to $1 million investment round; publishing vets Hugh Byrne and Alan Robinson join executive ranks
OAKLAND, Calif., June 5, 2008 – Greener World Media announced today the closure of a $1 [...]

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Sustainable Brands ‘08 Draws a Crowd

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Sustainable Brands ‘08 was an interesting place to be this year. I did about 8 briefings in the two days I was able to stay at the conference, and though I missed some great sessions while doing interviews, as well as the first day of workshops, clearly last year’s early adopters who showed up [...]

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All Entries For CA Clean Tech Open Due 6/14/08 at 11:59 PM PT

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

That’s THIS Saturday, folks!
Get your applications in…!!
Timeline of Events here, and more info on the application process here: http://www.cleantechopen.com/competition.php?page=how_to_apply

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SulphCo Completes Equity Financing for Gross Proceeds of Approximately $21.8 Million

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

My list of blogs that I have to get out the door has grown exponentially in the last few weeks, so though I’m feeling completely behind on that front, I thought you’d all find this of interest, and it’s a quick thing for me to blog about since I’m currently trying to wrap up two [...]

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Senate Climate Bill A ‘Dry Run’ [RE: S. 2191: America's Climate Security Act of 2007]

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Leave it to Mother Nature to send a message to our esteemed politicians in Washington DC on the day the first Climate Bill is being debated in the Senate…in the form of a freak storm. I’m not sure how many of you heard about the weather- including a hurricane warning – and a lengthy [...]

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Transforming Power Grid Operations

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Admittedly, my knowledge of this whole area of technology – high performance computing – is extremely limited. Emphasis on extremely. However, I do try to stay at least mindful of ’smart grid’-related news. That said, I found this article from Scientific Computing very interesting, and educational, and wanted to share with those of [...]

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