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  • Evaluating the cost of solar

    Evaluating the cost of solar

    J. Michael Horowitz of the Stanford Group moderates a discussion on 'green' finance and operational and maintenance costs associated with new solar projects at the Intersolar Conference 2008 and...

    July 16, 2008 8:52am

  • Evaluating the cost of solar

    Evaluating the cost of solar

    J. Michael Horowitz of the Stanford Group moderates a discussion on 'green' finance and operational and maintenance costs associated with new solar projects at the Intersolar Conference 2008 and...

    July 16, 2008 8:52am

  • Do we need smart meters?

    Do we need smart meters?

    At the Churchill Club's 11th Annual Top Ten Tech Trends, venture capitalists discuss whether the smart grid and smart meter trends will continue to produce innovation and what the motivating...

    1 | May 29, 2009 3:36pm

  • Is it enough to be 'green,' or does auto design matter?

    Is it enough to be 'green,' or does auto design matter?

    At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen Conference in Sausalito, Calif., automakers and venture capitalists talk about whether sustainable design is enough to attract customers to their cars. The executives...

    1 | September 16, 2009 3:55pm

  • Is nuclear green?

    Is nuclear green?

    At the Venture Summit in Palo Alto, Calif., a panel of venture capitalists shares its views on nuclear as a clean energy alternative to both oil and coal. The panel is moderated by Eric Wesoff of...

    3 | December 15, 2009 10:47am

  • Khosla VC details transformative 'green' tech

    Khosla VC details transformative 'green' tech

    At the Nordic Green conference in Menlo Park, Calif., Khosla venture capitalist Jim Kim discusses why the most significant clean tech R&D is occurring at the university level instead of at large...

    3 | April 28, 2010 11:59am

  • Steve Jurvetson predicts big year for artificial life

    Steve Jurvetson predicts big year for artificial life

    At a Churchill Club event in Mountain View, Calif., venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson touts the latest advancements in the development of artificial life--ones he believes will soon engender...

    3 | May 21, 2010 4:45pm

  • Vinod Khosla: What's next for clean tech?

    Vinod Khosla: What's next for clean tech?

    At the AlwaysOn Going Green conference in San Francisco, venture capitalist Vinod Khosla talks about why he's bullish on green tech and what technologies he believes will be game changers in the...

    1 | September 27, 2011 3:17pm

  • Dispelling the myth that clean tech is capital intensive

    Dispelling the myth that clean tech is capital intensive

    At the AlwaysOn Going Green conference in San Francisco, venture capitalist Vinod Khosla refutes claims that green tech companies require a larger amount of capital to start than typical...

    September 27, 2011 3:20pm

  • How the U.S. should embrace nuclear energy

    How the U.S. should embrace nuclear energy

    At the GoingGreen Silicon Valley conference in San Francisco, Matthew Trevithick, a partner at venture capital firm Venrock, proposes what the U.S. should do if it is serious about using nuclear...

    9 | October 18, 2010 9:12am

  • Silicon Valley VC: Living the green dream

    Silicon Valley VC: Living the green dream

    What will smart homes look like in the future? Venture capitalist Paul Holland and his wife Linda Yates are in the throes of construction on the greenest home in the United States. They're using...

    2 | June 17, 2009 8:41am

  • How texting can solve unreliable water issues

    How texting can solve unreliable water issues

    In the hundreds of millions of Asian, Latin American, and African households where water is only available once every week or two weeks, families lose both time and potential income waiting to...

    June 21, 2012 1:12pm

  • Which solar technology will survive?

    Which solar technology will survive?

    At the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco, Todd Glass of Heller Ehrman moderates a discussion on the various solar technologies making a difference in the green movement. From thin film PVs to...

    March 12, 2008 3:20pm

  • Planting solar gardens

    Planting solar gardens

    At the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco, Todd Glass of Heller Ehrman moderates a discussion on the challenges in developing solar technologies on a utility scale in the magnitude of 2,500...

    1 | March 13, 2008 10:45am

  • Debating the value of green subsidies

    Debating the value of green subsidies

    At a Churchill Club event in Menlo Park, Calif., Ira Ehrenpreis of Technology Partners moderates a discussion on the role of government in subsidizing green-technology ventures. The panelists are...

    3 | January 31, 2008 12:40pm

  • Achieving energy independence

    Achieving energy independence

    At a Churchill Club event in Menlo Park, Calif., Ira Ehrenpreis of Technology Partners moderates a discussion about the political and technical obstacles facing companies developing solutions...

    1 | January 31, 2008 2:18pm

  • Freemium: The first business model of the 21st century

    Freemium: The first business model of the 21st century

    At the Revenue Bootcamp Conference in Mountain View, Calif., Chris Anderson, author of "Free: The Future of a Radical Price," discusses how different companies use the free-to-premium, or freemium...

    4 | July 15, 2009 10:33am

  • Tracking and analyzing your whereabouts with mobile devices

    Tracking and analyzing your whereabouts with mobile devices

    Deborah Estrin, a professor of computer science at UCLA, says the capability of GPS mobile phones to record location over time creates a new wealth of analytics. For example, new opportunities...

    April 6, 2010 11:57am

  • The real cost of e-waste

    The real cost of e-waste

    How are companies tackling the e-waste problem? PC maker, Hewlett-Packard has an ambitious goal to recycle two billion pounds of e-waste by 2010. Correspondent Sumi Das talks to the company's...

    20 | June 2, 2009 9:19am

  • The Future Of... Credit Cards

    The Future Of... Credit Cards

    They're a modern-day must. Anyone who's ever forgotten their credit card at home or worse, lost it, knows exactly how crucial that piece of plastic truly is. With rampant fraud and ID theft...

    9 | February 9, 2011 2:41pm