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Truman Semans

Truman Semans is Senior Advisor at GreenOrder, advisory arm of the Cleantech Group. The Cleantech Group helps leading corporations find, connect with, and embed environmental innovation and grow profitable, customer-focused businesses around sustainable products and services.

Truman Semans is Senior Advisor at GreenOrder, advisory arm of the Cleantech Group. The Cleantech Group helps leading corporations find, connect with, and embed environmental innovation and grow profitable, customer-focused businesses around sustainable products and services.

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Southern exposure for startups: The Cherokee McDonough Challenge featured image

Southern exposure for startups: The Cherokee McDonough Challenge

November 8, 2013

By Truman Semans

An environmentally focused startup accelerator in North Carolina’s Research Triangle is leveraging a world-class team -- and money, too.

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Memo to the CEO: How to choose the right policy partners

March 5, 2012

By Catherine Potter and Truman Semans

The final lesson in our four-part series on navigating the intersection of policy and business explores how who you work with is as critical to policy successes as the platforms you advocate.

  • Employees
  • Leadership
  • Corporate Governance
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Memo to the CEO: A Marketing Plan to Move Your Policy Beyond Spin

February 27, 2012

By Catherine Potter and Truman Semans

Although you've built a policy team with deep business smarts and innovation savvy, you're still going to have the right marketing strategy to make an impact with policymakers.

  • Employees
  • Corporate Governance
  • Marketing
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Memo to the CEO: Build a Balanced Team to Achieve Policy Successes

February 21, 2012

By Catherine Potter and Truman Semans

Having the right skills on your team to equally emphasize business smarts, innovation savvy and policy know-how is the key to navigating the intersection of policy and business.

  • Leadership
  • Corporate Governance
  • Green Team
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Memo to the CEO: 4 Strategies for the Intersection of Policy & Business

February 13, 2012

By Catherine Potter and Truman Semans

The first in a four-week series on navigating the policy world looks at how to approach policy as a means to revenue and growth, not just defense.

  • Corporate Governance
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Why We Need a Green Standard for Natural Gas

September 21, 2011

By Truman Semans

The success of the Green-e renewable energy certification points the path to a solution that can bring the country's relatively cleaner natural gas supplies to market without polluting the environment around fracking operations.

  • Commitments & Goals
  • Measurement
  • Emissions Reduction
  • Renewable Energy
  • Energy Efficiency
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How to Succeed in Energy Management Where Google, Microsoft Failed

July 5, 2011

By Truman Semans

Is it possible to get large parts of the population to engage -- and stay engaged -- in energy efficiency?

  • Commitments & Goals
  • Utilities
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Residential
  • Smart Grid
  • Gadgets
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Fending Off the 'New Barbarians' with a Culture of Innovation

March 17, 2010

By Truman Semans

There is a critical parallel between a national-level need for innovation and new technology and what is needed inside U.S. organizations. This is especially true of incumbent companies in the energy industry (oil and gas and electric power) that want to be competitive in a changing marketplace.

  • Energy & Climate
  • Clean Tech
  • Climate
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In Copenhagen, Follow the Money

December 18, 2009

By Truman Semans

A few inconvenient truths about money and property underlie most of the topics on the tongues of negotiators and business people alike -- truths that are largely the reason that a complete, detailed world climate agreement could not be reached there.  

  • Energy & Climate
  • Emissions Reduction
  • Climate
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How Business Can Help Shape Policy in Copenhagen

December 16, 2009

By Truman Semans

Climate delegates should recognize the challenges and opportunities COP15 presents to business by pressing industry to step up with more concrete policy proposals -- but they also to give business official standing in the negotiating process.

  • Energy & Climate
  • Renewable Energy
  • Small Business
  • Climate
  • Energy Efficiency

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