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GreenRoad Technologies announced it has received $3 million in series C funding from Amadeus Capital Partners, Virgin Green Fund, Benchmark Capital, and Balderton Capital on Monday.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger enacts legislation that allows cities to finance solar installations on the roofs of privately owned homes and businesses.
Last month, Google.org’s director for climate change and energy initiatives, Dan Reicher, told us that Google would be making investments in green cars this summer through it’s plug-in hybrid program, RechargeIT. Well, here it is: Austin-based lithium ion battery start ActaCell said on Tuesday that it had raised $5.8 million in a Series A round led by DFJ Mercury and included Google.org’s RechargeIT program, Applied Ventures (the VC arm of Applied Materials), and Good Energies.
There seems to be a lot more media attention covering “cow power,” than actual viable cow power plants out there. But a team of researchers at the University of Texas at Austin say that biogas made from manure could provide as much as 3 percent of America’s electricity needs — that’s about the same amount of U.S. electricity that comes from renewables, excluding hydro and nuclear.
Vulcan Power, a company with one of the larger geothermal project portfolios, says it has received an investment of $145 million from Boston-based private equity firm Denham Capital. The sizable funding has been planned for awhile, as last year Vulcan raised $45 million from Merrill Lynch Commodity Partners (a subsidiary of Merrill Lynch) in what the company said was part of a larger planned $150 million in financing.
How do you make computing eco-hip? Wrap it in bamboo. Back in April, Dell showed off its bamboo-clad PC that uses 70 percent less power than a standard computer. Today, storage company Fabrik announced the release of its new eco-friendly external storage drive dubbed the [re]drive, made from bamboo and aluminum.
The recent warnings of salmonella outbreaks show the difficulty of tracing sources of food contamination in the United States. Federal authorities this week couldn’t say for sure whether contaminated jalapenos were tainted in Mexico where they were grown, at the distribution center in Texas, or while en route to markets.
The answer to our carbon emissions woes lies far below the sea, at least according to a new paper from researchers at Columbia University (hat tip Wired.com). The paper, entitled “Carbon dioxide sequestration in deep-sea basalt,” which was published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that there is “a dream reservoir” of porous, carbon-thirsty rock just off the coast of the Oregon at the bottom of the Pacific.
It’s a common story: people are interested in the clean energy business but don’t have a clue how to get in.
On Tuesday, CleanLoop was launched as a job search site dedicated to the clean-tech industry.
VentureLoop, a niche job site catering to the venture industry and startups, is spinning off a new board today: CleanLoop, a dedicated site for jobs in the cleantech field. Readers who have written in of late asking about how to jump into a cleantech startup may find the board useful.
Employment listings site VentureLoop, which specalizes in posting job openings at venture-backed companies, is hoping to piggyback on the growth in cleantech funding while focusing its offerings. It has launched a new CleanLoop site exclusively listing jobs in emerging solar, alternative fuels, advanced materials and software technology companies.
Many have bemoaned the lack of experienced talent in the cleantech sector as of late: the Los Angeles Times in an article this week, former GreenFuel interim CEO Bob Metcalfe when trying to find his replacement, and the New England Clean Energy Council when launching a green fellowship program. And while another green job board won’t help create more talent, a good one could help companies find those talented few and far between.
VentureLoop
, the job site that features postings exclusively for venture-backed growth companies, is delving into a new vertical with the launching of CleanLoop today. This new niche job site aims to match job hunters with employers that are heavily involved with the green movement.
