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Temperature Extremes and EV Battery Trade-offs

December 10, 2010 by Geoffrey Styles
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The first production-model Nissan Leaf electric vehicle is scheduled to be delivered to a customer in the San Francisco Bay Area tomorrow. I know if I were on the receiving end, I'd be as excited as a kid on Christmas morning, particularly in a place where having the first Leaf will score its owner many green points. However, if the... [read more]

Don’t wash your jeans!

November 4, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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You learn something every day in this business. During a recent visit to the San Francisco headquarters of Levi Strauss & Co., the $4-billion a year clothing company best known for its Levi’s jeans, I was talking with Michael Kobori, the company’s director of sustainability, about the company’s its effort to measure the carbon and... [read more]

Big business’s big innovation problem

October 21, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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To drive the environmental change the planet needs, industrial capitalism must transform itself, radically if not necessarily rapidly. Disruptive, breakthrough innovation is needed, on a mass scale. Government is failing us. Can business step up? Innovation is on my mind because I’m just back from the GreenBiz Innovation Forum, a two-day... [read more]

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Does California need AB32?

September 30, 2010 by Rosana Francescato
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Among the usual slew of propositions California voters will face this fall is the much-disputed Prop 23, which would put AB32 on hold indefinitely. AB32 was signed into law by Governor Schwarzenegger in 2006, and if left standing it will reach its full effect in a year or two.Why the debate about this proposition? Opponents of... [read more]

Purchasing the Environmentally Preferable Way- Green Steps to Manage Your Supply Chain

September 2, 2010 by Dave Meyer
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In this increasing “green” business focused economy, there are a plenitude of purchasing guides focused on assisting suppliers and customers in making environmentally friendly’ product choices.  Recently the City of San Francisco launched a  database of products that meet the city’s preferred purchasing standards. The SF... [read more]

Solazyme’s amazing algae

March 18, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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Algae are so good at producing oil from sunlight and carbon dioxide that there are, by some accounts, as many as 200 companies trying to make biofuels from algae. Some are obscure, little more than a couple of guys playing around with pond scum. Others are attention-grabbing, like Synthetic Genomics, the company led by pioneering... [read more]

[PODCAST] When the Rubber Meets the Road: Taking Cleantech to Scale

March 2, 2010 by Jesse Jenkins
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Financing your innovative cleantech company amidst an economic crisis, navigating a new and uncertain policy environment, and finding the early markets needed to take it all to scale. Not an easy task, but those are just some of the many challenges facing the nascent cleantech industry on display at this year's San Francisco Cleantech... [read more]

Test-driving Ford's Model T of electric cars

October 23, 2009 by Todd Woody
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photo: Todd Woody Ford executives brought a battery-powered Focus sedan to San Francisco on Thursday (along with a plug-in hybrid Escape). It was clear from the presentation by Nancy Gioia, Ford’s director of global electrification, that the automaker is aiming for a mass market and is spending a great deal of effort on helping create... [read more]