John Denniston: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
July 20, 2010Leave a Comment
John Denniston talks with THE GREEN ECONOMY about the future of clean technologies, how the US may be loosing our future to China, and what we should do about it.
Is cleantech catching on?
It’s doing much more than catching on. World-class entrepreneurs are sprinting into the greentech sector from all walks of life: large companies, small [...]
The Sixth Revolution: Leaping the Valley of Death
July 20, 2010Leave a Comment
PART I
We’re at risk of missing out on some of the most profound opportunities offered by the technology revolution that has just begun.
Yet many are oblivious to the signs and are in danger of watching this become a period of noisy turmoil rather than the full-blown insurrection needed to launch us into a green economy. [...]
CEDA: The Clean Energy Deployment Administration
July 20, 2010Leave a Comment
PART II
Looking to help bridge the gap in new cleantech and biotech projects, is a proposed government based solution called the Clean Energy Deployment Admin. (CEDA).
There is a house and senate version, as well as a house Green Bank bill to provide gap financing.
Recently, over 42 companies, representing many industries and organizations, signed a letter [...]
Pennsylvania’s Green Economy
July 2, 2010Leave a Comment
When asked why he was so good, hockey icon Wayne Gretzky replied: “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”*
As Leo Gerard, President of the Steel Worker’s Union, and Michael Peck of Gamesa, said in a recent editorial, “The world is skating toward multiple clean sources of energy [...]
Governors’ Biofuels Coalition Chair Determined to Help Pass Biodiesel Tax Incentive
June 28, 2010Leave a Comment
Chet Culver tells nation’s struggling biodiesel industry to keep pushing “energy revolution”
WASHINTON, DC – Iowa Governor Chet Culver, who is Chair of the Governors’ Biofuels Coalition, yesterday told the nation’s biodiesel industry that he is more determined than ever to help get the extension of the federal biodiesel tax incentive passed in [...]
Biodiesel Industry: Americans Strongly Support Tax Incentives for Clean Energy
June 18, 2010Leave a Comment
New Stanford Poll Finds 84% of Respondents Favor Alternative Energy Tax Breaks
WASHINGTON, DC – With the U.S. Senate poised to consider legislation this week that includes reinstatement of the biodiesel tax incentive, a new poll released by Stanford University found 84 percent of respondents favored federal tax breaks to encourage alternative energy, including [...]
Hey! It’s a blowout!
June 15, 2010Leave a Comment
It is up to us all to take a stand to preserve our resources–like oil and gas–unless we genuinely believe we are the last generation to need to them. If that is the case, we can all party hardy now, because tomorrow will never come.
It’s not a spill: a gentle, gradual thing like [...]
Farmers Benefit from Carbon Legislation
June 12, 2010Leave a Comment
The battle over who will regulate Green House Gas (GHG) continues, with no one winning.
The Supreme Court mandated that–in the absence of a legislative solution– the US Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA) must enact regulations under the Clean Air Act—even though most acknowledge that regulation is not the ideal solution. [...]
New York to become 23rd state to pass e-waste legislation
June 9, 2010Leave a Comment
June 7,2010– Like the program recently enacted in South Carolina and many other states, New York will adopt an extended producer responsibility-based take-back program for used consumer electronics. Under the legislation, which E-Scrap News said “looks to be one of the strictest of the 23 e-scrap take-back programs established nationwide,” OEMs will be expected to [...]
Post-Stimulus Legislation for the Renewable Energy Industry
May 29, 2010Leave a Comment
What’s Next, and Why Should We Care?
Now that much of the Recovery Act’s energy-related funds have been awarded, some may wonder what Congress and President Obama have in store next to support renewable and sustainable energy technologies. And those industrial and commercial energy consumers who have not benefited directly from energy stimulus programs may be [...]