green tech

MicroHoo: Anticipation …

John Paczkowski in News on May 2, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

Time to Get Rid of Those Two-Stroke Diesel Data Centers

John Paczkowski in News on May 1, 2008 at 1:26 pm PT

Now that venture capitalists are so taken with green tech, perhaps they can push some VC dollars toward the development of a greener data center. Because according to consultancy McKinsey, data centers are fast becoming the Superfund sites of the tech industry. McKinsey found that data centers are responsible for 0.3% of the world’s carbon-dioxide [...]

Adobe Posts Q4 CEO Loss

John Paczkowski in News on November 13, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

Gore and Doerr in 2004+4

John Paczkowski in News on November 13, 2007 at 5:42 am PT

“Gore and Doerr in 2008” doesn’t have the same alliterative ring to it as “Gore and Doerr in 2004,” the slogan splashed across those spoof political buttons that popped up in Silicon Valley in the late ’90s. Doesn’t make much of a presidential campaign slogan, either. But then it doesn’t need to. Because former Vice [...]

Gore's Inconvenient Truth a Convenient Way of Maximizing Investment Portfolios

John Paczkowski in News on June 7, 2007 at 12:08 pm PT

According to a new report from Environmental Entrepreneurs and Cleantech, venture-capital investments in the clean-technology sector are accelerating and pushing the industry to new levels of growth. In 2006, clean tech became the third-largest VC investment category in the U.S., behind software and biotechnology, but ahead of medical devices, telecommunications and semiconductors. It claimed 11% [...]

Gore’s Inconvenient Truth a Convenient Way of Maximizing Investment Portfolios

John Paczkowski in News on June 7, 2007 at 12:08 pm PT

According to a new report from Environmental Entrepreneurs and Cleantech, venture-capital investments in the clean-technology sector are accelerating and pushing the industry to new levels of growth. In 2006, clean tech became the third-largest VC investment category in the U.S., behind software and biotechnology, but ahead of medical devices, telecommunications and semiconductors. It claimed 11% [...]

So Bright… So Beautiful…

John Paczkowski in News on June 7, 2007 at 11:28 am PT

No, SlurryCarb's About as Far From a Nutrition Bar as You Can Get …

John Paczkowski in News on May 25, 2007 at 6:14 am PT

“Time to pay the electric bill” may soon supplant “I’m going to see a man about a horse” as the most popular bathroom-break euphemism–in Los Angeles County, anyway. Working with a group of SoCal sanitation districts, EnerTech Environmental is building the country’s first commercial biomass-to-energy plant. Once finished, the facility will convert 675 wet tons [...]