Category: 2007: Cleantech Investing's Watershed Year

Maybe one could make the case that 2006 was a more critical year for cleantech investing. It was, after all, the year that saw venture capital investment in the industry break one billion dollars US. But at that point, it seemed the industry was still on the cusp. Would a 1980s-style turnaround […]

Since the inception of this blog, we’ve discussed the practical upsides to adopting cleantech and energy efficient techniques and policies, aside from their impact on the environment. It’s critical for widespread adoption, in fact, that energy efficiency methods and cleantech provide a cost-saving alternative to their dirtier counterparts. The environmentalist movement has succeeded […]

Normally we don’t focus too much on the over-arching questions of climate change, especially with regards to transportation, but there have been a couple of recent developments on the greater political front worth noting.First, on the Canadian front, one of the most conservative and libertarian Canadian provinces, Alberta, is moving in a very green direction […]

The end of the year brings, like clockwork, reflections on the year past and visions of the future. For now, we’ll focus on the future, since recounting the past year would be little more than a list of breakthroughs, achievements, and milestones.The future appears to be a little more interesting, though it seems certain […]

The reports pointing out the wisdom of green building seem to be thick on the ground, but it never hurts to point out when a new one crops up. The reports themselves are invaluable, especially taken together where the sheer weight of them can often work to convince the skeptical or uncertain. So […]

Around and around it goes, playing the same tune, day after day. “How’s cleantech investment doing today?” you might wonder. And the answer, as always, is “Better than it was yesterday, two weeks ago, a year ago.”The National Venture Capital Association this week pointed out that venture capital investments in cleantech and alternative […]

Every so often, it’s nice to take a look at some of the big green building projects around the country and look to see how things are catching on. The higher the profile, the more likely we’re going to see increased enthusiasm for green building and, hopefully in turn, an exponential spread through the […]

Though we’ve focused quite a bit on commercial and public building here, we can’t say too much about the need for the private and public sectors–as opposed to residential, which faces a host of challenges–to get their respective acts together, look at the benefits of green building, and do something about it already. And […]

There seems little question that cleantech investment is on the rise, and should continue along a significant upward trend. As we’ve said often enough here, there’s potentially unlimited upside to cleantech–as eventually, it seems all tech will be “clean,” and all building “green” and so on. That, really, is the ultimate goal, and […]

Former US President Bill Clinton has been taking action on the environment and cleantech of late, echoing the awareness efforts of his former Vice President, Al Gore. Where Gore has simply been trying to make the American public aware of the problem, Clinton has sought to produce, present, and forward strong action to reduce […]