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SmartPlanet’s technology videos portray technological solutions for our future world, from aerospace to design, supercomputers to transportation.

  • 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

  • Counting carbon to find bottom-line benefits

    Counting carbon to find bottom-line benefits

    What could your business do better? At the Greentech Media and Groom Energy, Enterprise Carbon Accounting Summit in Burlingame, Calif., panelists explain what "The Climate Registry" is, and how...

    1 | May 15, 2009 12:34pm

  • Revving up the electric-car industry

    Revving up the electric-car industry

    At the Green:Net conference in San Francisco, John Clark of GridPoint and Richard Lowenthal of Coulomb Technologies discuss how the largest obstacle for next-generation electric cars is standards....

    1 | March 26, 2009 1:19pm

  • Getting green consumers to take action

    Getting green consumers to take action

    At the Green: Net '09 conference in San Francisco, Erin Carlson, director of Yahoo for Good, breaks down the demographics of green-minded consumers who visit the Web site. She says most people...

    1 | March 26, 2009 8:33am

  • From Internet to enternet, creating the energy network

    From Internet to enternet, creating the energy network

    At the Green: Net '09 Conference in San Francisco, Bob Metcalfe, a general partner at Polaris Venture Partners, explained how Washington actually helped the Internet, and where the best place to...

    1 | March 25, 2009 2:43pm

  • San Francisco's green plans

    San Francisco's green plans

    At the Green: Net '09 Conference in San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom lays out the city's future plans for reducing emissions even further. He explains the city's current electric-car project,...

    1 | March 25, 2009 2:33pm

  • Will cheap oil affect green innovation?

    Will cheap oil affect green innovation?

    At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, calls on the government to require using alternative...

    1 | February 12, 2009 2:58pm

  • Bill Joy's green investing ideas

    Bill Joy's green investing ideas

    At a Churchill Club event in Santa Clara, Calif., Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, explains how his company came up with 26 "grand...

    1 | February 12, 2009 2:26pm

  • The Green Enterprise: Autodesk

    The Green Enterprise: Autodesk

    Autodesk tools aim to help designers conceptualize projects on a computer before starting the costly (and energy-intense) production process. Correspondent Sumi Das takes a tour of Autodesk's new...

    1 | December 8, 2008 2:01pm

  • Car-friendly outlets pave way for electric driving

    Car-friendly outlets pave way for electric driving

    At the AlwaysOn Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Praveen Mandal, president of Coulomb Technologies, outlines the difficulties in finding places to plug in rechargeable cars and balancing...

    1 | December 5, 2008 3:37pm

  • Foam finds new life

    Foam finds new life

    At the AlwaysOn Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., J. Brian Hennessy, chief marketing officer of Mobius Technologies, explains how the company has found a way to turn industrial...

    1 | December 5, 2008 12:10pm

  • Refining vegetable oil into diesel fuel

    Refining vegetable oil into diesel fuel

    At the AlwaysOn Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Peter Bell, co-founder of Renewable Fuel Products, explains that his company's reactors are small and mobile enough to be loaded onto the...

    December 5, 2008 11:50am

  • The cost of creating solar cells

    The cost of creating solar cells

    At the Always On Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., a panel of solar energy executives debates whether or not silicon prices will fall as the industry matures. While they all think margins...

    1 | December 4, 2008 1:28pm

  • The Green Enterprise: California Academy of Sciences

    The Green Enterprise: California Academy of Sciences

    Since 1853, the California Academy of Sciences has been considered one of the world's most respected institutions. Now more than 150 years later, it's continuing to lead by example, showcasing how...

    November 21, 2008 12:35pm

  • John Doerr: How Obama can kick start 'green' innovation

    John Doerr: How Obama can kick start 'green' innovation

    Kleiner Perkins VC John Doerr discusses his views on clean tech at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. "The most important thing" that President-elect Barack Obama needs to do, he says, is...

    November 6, 2008 5:11pm