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He was just a boy with a dream of putting a computer on every desk. Now the Microsoft co-founder wants businesses to heed his call toward solving the greatest challenge of the time.
by Elsa Wenzel
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The former Greenpeace organizer and co-founder of Sungevity will become the new head of California clean tech fund CalCEF.
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The social startup seeks to develop partnerships with companies that would use it to build employee and customer brand engagement.
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Cloud computing could redefine the way we think about business ethics and sustainability. Here's how the cloud could affect two of our biggest sustainability challenges: climate change and human rights.
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The Internet, shale gas technologies and Google search engine all had their origins in research funded by the U.S. government. These are just a few examples, and show why now is exactly the wrong time to stop supporting cleantech innovation.
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Google's renewable energy investment leader discusses what it's like to be responsible for major capital investments at a company that could reshape how the world gets its power.
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Los Angeles leads the nation on green jobs creation; Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal released list of Top 25 Environmental Firms, Auto industry enjoys green jobs growth, and more.
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Global sustainability spending will soar 50 percent to 100 percent between 2011 and 2013, predicted research firm Verdantix.
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Investors and U.S. policymakers face a historic choice: Invest in energy infrastructure now or wait for economic recovery. Certainly, the world faces serious challenges to both capital markets and the global economy as the effects of the financial crisis unfold, but this is not an “either/or” issue. Investing in clean energy infrastructure is a business and environmental necessity that we cannot afford to postpone.
by Jigar Shah
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Research suggests even more can be done to stimulate investment in Los Angeles startups, with one area -- cleantech -- poised to lead the way if spurred by entrepreneurial drive and public policy.
by John Paglia
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Like most big problems, climate change will require big solutions, and will make smart companies big money. No financial institution has done more to promote investment in climate change solutions than Deutsche Bank.
by Marc Gunther
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Banks and other financial institutions could refurbish their tarnished reputations by using their smarts to innovate new financial products that actually help average Americans while addressing some of the nation's greatest challenges: unemployment, economic competitiveness, national security and climate change.
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Did the stimulus package jump-start the economy? Will climate regulation create jobs? Are clean energy subsidies an efficient way to curb pollution? Is healthcare spending worth it? And how worried, really, should we be about budget deficits?
by Marc Gunther
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General Electric Company, the PG&E Corporation and Tnt Nv, an international express and mail delivery service based in the Netherlands, rank first, second and third place respectively on Corporate Knights magazine's sixth annual Global 100 list of most sustainable firms.
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Why is wind-power behemoth GE bothering to invest a relatively tiny amount of money in a small company that makes backyard wind turbines?
by Marc Gunther
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Financing is the most significant hurdle to getting a green idea off the ground. Venture capitalist Bryan Korba offers an insider’s perspective on what VCs are looking for, how not to look like an amateur, and what to do with the money when you get it.
by Anna Clark
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A near-Herculean effort, Newsweek's new list of the greenest companies in the S&P 500 Index may be imperfect -- and are sure to be debated -- but they may also be the best effort to date to assess the mainstream corporate marketplace in the U.S.
by Joel Makower
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The city's new "Green Building Retrofit Ordinance" will bring all city-owned buildings that are 30 years old or older up to LEED Silver levels, and will give priority to projects that bring jobs to the surrounding community.
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The state's treasurer announced the creation of a $10 million investment account to finance green building and energy-efficiency projects around the state.