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What happens when green business meets cleantech? When those companies are like Best Buy, Autodesk and Serious Materials, you get firms that align their products and services with efforts to foster sustainability -- and in some cases guide the marketplace toward broader and deeper adoption of environmentally responsible practices.
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Cree Inc., Dow Chemical Company, GE, CalStar Products and Serious Materials are among the more than 100 firms receiving $2.3 billion in tax credits for cleantech manufacturing that's expected to create thousands of U.S. jobs while producing advanced technology and equipment to generate, efficiently use and manage energy.
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We have upon us the next Industrial Revolution, where companies who make products that embody energy efficiency now have a worldwide advantage. We can’t let other countries lead the world in this next Industrial Revolution, because this is our calling.
by Kevin Surace
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The other day, I took a spin around your nation’s capital in what is being touted as the first affordable electric car that will find its way onto America’s roads: It’s the Coda.
by Marc Gunther
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Johnson Controls, General Motors and A123Systems are among the recipients of a $2.4 billion investment in stimulus funds aimed at developing and mass-producing electric vehicles and batteries.
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Earth2Tech and GigaOM's Green:Net 09 conference, happening March 24 in San Francisco, is a green IT conference that breaks the mold of all-IT all the time to look at how technology is the linchpin of many of the most promising green solutions.
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AFS Trinity Power Corporation announced this week that it has upgraded its prototype for a high performance, high mileage green SUV with new technology to extend the vehicle's driving range.
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The recent increase in wind energy projects has also led to major changes in wind power technology— and now there is a generation of old turbines waiting for a second life.
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Cell phones and alternative energy are coming together in a Vermont Telecommunications Authority plan to use wind power to expand cell phone service to unserved areas.
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The world's cheapest car might be available with micro-hybrid technology, which cuts fuel use when vehicles idle.
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In what could almost be considered a pre-emptive bailout request, the fuel cell industry asked Congress and the incumbent Obama Administration last week for a staggering $1.2 billion in the upcoming planned stimulus package.
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As if visitors to London didn't already have enough to see, the London Transportation Department has just unveiled a sleek zero-emissions double decker bus design.
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The electric transportation company Better Place will enter the U.S. market in a bid to make the San Francisco Bay Area the 'Electric Vehicle Capital of the U.S.' Meanwhile, the Renault-Nissan Alliance has partnered with the state of Oregon to establish a charging infrastructure.
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Startups ranging from a firm that helps data centers operate with greater energy efficiency to a maker of "high performance, consumer friendly diapers" are among the six winners of the 2008 California Clean Tech Open.
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In a bright spot against the somber backdrop of a slowing economy, sales of General Electric's ecomagination products and services will top $17 billion this year, the company said Tuesday.
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The ice cream company has received EPA permission to install freezers cooled with propane, technology used widely in Europe but banned in the U.S.
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A La Jolla, Calif.-based company attempting to address environmental problems by engineering cellular 'bio-factories' topped the cleantech heap on the 2008 GoingGreen 100 Top Private Companies list.
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The race to create the infrastructure for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles is on -- the city of San Francisco, state of Tennessee and a slew of automakers and utilities announced separate plans to lay the groundwork for the mass introduction of PHEVs beginning in 2010.
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If elected, Sen. John McCain promised to award a $300 milliion prize to the automaker that develops a battery that “leapfrogs” commercially available plug-in hybrid or electric cars. He also proposed tax credits for sales of zero-emissions vehicles.
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The Dept. of Energy joined forces with GE, Vestas, Siemens Power Generation, Clipper Turbine Works, Suzlon Energy and Gamesa Corp. this week in a bid to grow wind energy production high enough to account for a fifth of total generation by 2030.
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After two decades of development, countless environmental nanotechnologies are fast approaching commercial viability -- and the companies behind them have the potential to redefine the clean tech sector.
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Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers, ARCH Venture Partners and Foundation Capital will join the DOE's Entrepreneur in Residence pilot program to bring clean technologies to market faster.
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The University of California at Davis wants to help researchers move their work work on sustainable technologies from the lab to the marketplace.
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IBM, Nokia, Pitney-Bowes and Sony are the first companies to join the newly launched Eco-Patents Commons, a coalition spearheaded by IBM to offer environmental technologies, processes and ideas to spur innovation around the globe.
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Will cleantech turn mercenaries into missionaries? By John Elkington and Mark Lee
by Emily Rabin