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Is It Time For Clean Energy Investing To Go Online?

November 1, 2011 by Scott Edward Anderson
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Longtime readers of The Green Skeptic will recall that back in 2008, I was working on a start-up venture that became the unfortunate victim of the market collapse coupled with, as Andy Swan kept reminding me every time it dipped, the plummeting price of oil after an all-time high of $147 per barrel in the summer of '08. [read more]

Making Buses Better

August 1, 2011 by Deron Lovaas
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I don’t like to take sides in the bus v. rail food fight – I believe they both have a role to play – but it does seem to me that buses, despite their cost-effectiveness, get the short end of the stick when it comes to investment. The ASCE study I wrote about on Wednesday also highlights this point. Deficiencies in bus service, the study... [read more]

The Ultimate Energy + Green Twitter Hashtag List

July 7, 2011 by Tracey de Morsella
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The following are 150+ Twitter hashtags that can help you gain Twitter followers interested in cleantech, sustainability, green building, climate change and other green topics. Using hashtags on Twitter can help you to grow your business, build your green brand, raise awareness about your cause, build your reputation, and more. by... [read more]

We Need More Crazy-Smart Women Leaders in Cleantech

July 7, 2011 by Scott Edward Anderson
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Lucinda Bromwyn DuncalfeMy friend Lucinda Bromwyn Duncalfe always makes me think. She's "crazy-smart," as she likes to say of others.  One of the smartest people I know.  So I pay attention to what she says or what she writes about. Lucinda is a serial CEO.  Her gift is to see the potential in a company or its product... [read more]

Applied Materials' "Dr. Solar" Does "Ask Me Anything" Reddit Chat

June 23, 2011 by Scott Edward Anderson
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Dr. Charlie Gay, Applied Materials, on his computer.To celebrate the Summer Solstice, Dr. Charlie Gay, a veteran of the solar energy space and currently Applied Materials' president of solar, participated in a "live" chat on Reddit.com. "Dr. Solar," as he’s known in the industry, has been a proponent of solar energy since 1975 and... [read more]

Nuclear Energy & Social Media

June 15, 2011 by Dan Yurman
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Image credit: Idaho Samizdat ~ http://djysrv.blogspot.com

Who reads nuclear energy blogs? So, who is reading nuclear blogs? On the ANS Social Media listserv, I asked this question  recently and got some interesting results for the month of May 2011. Here’s a sample of the replies: Michele Kearny, at the Nuclear Wire, a news service, reports for the month of May 18,812 page views. Michele’... [read more]

Facebook’s Coal Problem

May 9, 2011 by Marc Gunther
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  You’ve hard about the cloud, right? This blog comes to you from the cloud. The cloud is where the bank keeps your money. YouTube, Gmail, Twitter and iTunes live in the cloud. So does a record of all my runs in 2011. The cloud, in essence, is the millions of data centers where information and software are stored and can be accessed... [read more]

Astro Turf Wars

April 18, 2011 by Michael Tobis
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It's great having Greenfyre around again. Perhaps he should call his blog Feetfyre instead. He certainly puts matters back into the right ethical perspective. It's easy, in the ivory tower, to lose sight of the urgency of the emergency. Greenfyre doesn't let us forget.I'd like to especially thank him for this little video clip,... [read more]

Energetics: Year Two

April 9, 2011 by Alex Trembath
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I started this blog about one year ago (actually, Energetics had its inaugural post on March 22, 2010). Since then, I've posted 116 entries, averaging somewhere between 5-15 per month (with the exception of April 2010, which had 47 separate posts, a pace which I apparently could not sustain). Energetics has had, as of this writing, 3,851... [read more]

Social Media, Old Media and Fukushima

March 23, 2011 by Dan Yurman
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As expected it ignored reality to provide its own version of events Firms that advertise on television love the weather segment in the evening news. Everyone wants to know about it, and the possibility of offensive content is pretty low.A new development is that ‘Reality TV,’ with its dysfunctional personalities, has brought a new... [read more]

Social Media & Cleantech: Why the Latter is Not Using the Former

December 7, 2010 by Christopher Williams
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As I’ve written in the past about Sustainability and Social Media – the mix works well and should be embraced in particular by new companies looking to effectively connect and communicate with their stakeholders; prospects, clients, press & media, investors, competitors, industry & trade associations, just to name a few. Yet, to... [read more]

The forecast for climate blogs

November 17, 2010 by Simon Donner
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The previous post drawing analogies between the state of climate blogging and cable news drew a wide variety of responses, some here, some over at the Energy Collective, and some in private e-mails (if such a thing exists). There's no right answer to the question of how to respond to skepticism about well-founded scientific findings. I'm... [read more]

Innovation at the IBM Smarter Industries Symposium

November 15, 2010 by Tom Raftery
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Photo credit Tom Raftery I attended the inaugural IBM Smarter industries Symposium recently and the major talking point that emerged from it was Innovation. The event was a nice mix of presentations by IBMers, customers and “breakout exchanges” with a healthy mix of both. Almost all of the speakers talked about the increasing... [read more]

Climate blogs, cable news and some inconvenient truths

November 8, 2010 by Simon Donner
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There is a storm brewing in the climate change world. Climate policy efforts are in disarray. There’s a chance that the Congress, energized by new leadership that questions the scientific evidence for climate change, will hold hearings to investigate scientific practices. Climate scientists are preparing to defend their field. Will the... [read more]

Foursquare ad campaign helps save climate-imperiled pika

October 20, 2010 by Todd Woody
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In a story in Wednesday’s New York Times, I write about how Earthjustice, a non-profit law firm, ran a successful successful fundraising campaign to help the climate change-endangered American pika by using Foursquare and location-based advertising: SAN FRANCISCO IN a city passionate about the environment and technology, commuters are... [read more]