Daily Archives: December 15, 2008

The end of last week was probably a terrible time for @Ventures to have put out a presentation challenging recent trends in cleantech venture capital, given what’s been going on in the news cycle…  There were meaty discussions by Michael Kanellos at GreenTech Media (I’ll discuss that column a bit more in another post) and [

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Deals from the past couple of weeks:

SensorTran, a developer of fiber optic based sensors (and full disclosure: a former portfolio company of mine) raised a $3.5mm insider Series C.  Advantage Capital Partners, Expansion Capital Partners, WHEB Ventures and Stonehenge Capital participated in the round.

Lightwave Power raised a Series A from Quercus Trust and 21Ventures.  More [

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You may recall us posting this video in July, where a New York cop “toppled” a cyclist participating in a critical mass ride. While bikes are quick, the wheels of justice are slow, but they finally got around to deciding what to do about this. According to the <a href=”http://

This week is Carnival of the Green #158 and it’s being hosted by The Christian Environmentalist, a blog that explores environmental issues from a Christian perspective.

So head on over to this week’s Carnival to find a round up of green news and events from the past week, submitted by other bloggers and green sites.

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Our Plan to Save Detroit
It is with tongue planted firmly in cheek that we present you our plan to save the big Detroit automakers from smaller and more efficient foreign cars: They simply need to knock off highly desirable foreign cars, but make them super-efficient and inexpensive by shrinking them! Voilà!

Many more models of the cars of tomorrow below the fold

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The world watched, although in what seems to have been a relatively detached manner, given the general lack of coverage, the events happening over the last two weeks at the UN’s climate change conference in Poznan, Poland (1-12 December). “Present but not contributing” would aptly describe some of the nations there. The US had a delegation, but it represented outgoing president Bush. Obama did not send his own climate team, although he has called climate change “a matter of urgency.”

“It has affected the meeting in a fairly significant way,” said Gus Silva-Chavez, a policy expert at the Environmental Defense Fund in Washington who has been observing the closed negations. “A lot o

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a new most-wanted list that focuses on environmental fugitives. These are folks that have done things like smuggled harmful chemicals, dumped hazardous waste into rivers and trafficked in polluting cars.

I must admit that I find it a bit ironic that the very agency that refused to grant California a waiver to regulate tailpipe emissions for greenhouse gases, has climbed up on its eco-horse to point fingers.

Looks More Like a Toy, but Performs Better
Recently, we wrote about the fuel consumption of some common US military vehicles (f.ex., the M2A3 and M3A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicles get about 1.7 MPG and the M1A1 Abrams Battle Tank gets about 0.6 MPG). This matters because we’re not talking about small amounts of fuel: according to NPR, all the tanks, planes and ships of the U.S. military burn about 340,000 barrels of oil per day, making it the

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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is a likely victim of rising temperatures due to global warming. Photo: Leonard Low

Last week the EU announced a new global warming mitigation plan that, as it called for only a 20% reduction in emissions by 2020 was criticized as not being strong enough. Well, Australia just announced its own carbon emission reduction plan and it