http://www.inveslogic.com/popular/articles/green-venture-capital Green Venture Capital - Today's Popular Articles at http://www.inveslogic.com en http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1131651?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 Van Jones is one timely man. With the economic crisis spurring a new search for ways to revitalize and rebuild our flagging economy, Van Jones, the founder and president of Green For All, is ready with answers: a national commitment to green econom... Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:06:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1131651?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1131603?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 By a vote of 263-171, the U.S. House of Representatives passed historic legislation that extends the 30-percent federal investment tax credit for both residential and commercial solar installations for 8 years.This legislation will:Extend for 8 years... Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:19:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1131603?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/1130904?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 Today's New York Times Magazine portrays venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins and the new green Silicon Valley. They are betting hundreds of millions of dollars that now is the time for clean energy:[T]he firm s green-tech investments didn tse... Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:12:07 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/1130904?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1129449?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 10/01/2008 - Hudson Clean Energy Partners has clinched the purchase of Spain and Latin America oriented project developer Helium Energy, in a deal that will give it control of a 4GW portfolio...... Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1129449?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/1129193?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 From the inbox:I saw your blog, Environmental Economics, and thought thatyou and your readers would want to know that tomorrow, September 30thThe Economist will start atwo-week long Oxford-style online debate on the valueof water. The proposition is ... Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:01:53 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/1129193?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1128685?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 Clean Energy Fuels Corp. will own, operate and supply fuel for new compressed natural gas (CNG) public access stations to support airport operations in Atlanta and Oklahoma City.In the Atlanta area, the City of College Park, Georgia, contracted with ... Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:42:15 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1128685?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deal-book/1127796?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 Ostara Nutrient Recovery Systems, a Vancouver, B.C.-based developer of water recycling technology, has raised $10.5 million from VantagePoint Venture Partners and Foursome Investments Limited.The water treatment start-up will use the fresh cash to be... Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:05:49 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deal-book/1127796?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1127512?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 The Guardian Library House 2008 Cleantech 100 represents the hottest 100 private cleantech companies in Europe, selected by rigorously assessing companies using Library House proprietary data filters, and an expert advisory panel. By considering grow... Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:36:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1127512?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1127125?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 09/25/2008 - DIF Renewable Energy, a clean energy arm of a fund manager DIF, will acquire 51...... Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1127125?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1125288?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 Johnson Controls-Saft (JCS) received a US$500,000 Bio Energy Grant from Wisconsin s Clean Energy Wisconsin Plan. The company was chosen for this grant for its work in developing innovative, clean energy projects, specifically for the advanced techn... Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:05:05 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1125288?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1123937?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 A US$100-billion federal investment in clean energy technologies over the next two years would result in the creation of 2 million new jobs with a significant proportion of that in the struggling construction and manufacturing sectors, according to a... Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:20:23 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1123937?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1121233?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 A report by Navigant Consulting Inc. concluded that using renewable energy to power the proposed high-speed train (HST) system, resulting in zero greenhouse gas operations, is well within the capabilities of the state. The zero emissions strate... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:02:03 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1121233?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1120837?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 09/10/2008 - UK clean energy project developer Novera has secured planning approval for a wind farm of up to 27MW in Scotland, having originally applied for permission at the end of last year...... Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:34:58 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1120837?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1120392?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 09/09/2008 - Sustainable Technologies Fund, the first Nordic region Cleantech fund, recently raised 58million euros from Swedish and foreign institutions and individuals...... Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:34:44 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1120392?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1120175?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 Clean Energy Fuels Corp. is acquiring FuelMaker Corporation, maker of the Phill home natural gas refuelling system (earlier post), from American Honda Motor Co. and the FuelMaker Trust for US$17 million in cash. The acquisition is expected to be comp... Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:23:54 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1120175?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1119297?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 For too much of the lengthy debate over expanded access to oil & gas resources, participants on both sides have sought to pit renewable energy against conventional energy. There is nothing at all mutually-exclusive in our need to increase US energy s... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:58:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/energy-outlook/1119297?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1117534?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 09/02/2008 - Italian power behemoth Enel is likely to list up to 40% of its clean energy unit in 2009 and aims to have over 7GW of installed renewables capacity by 2012...... Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1117534?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1116953?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 The US Department of Energy (DOE) will provide up to $7 million to accelerate the movement of clean energy technologies from DOE s national laboratories to the marketplace. The funding will help post-research technologies move toward commercial via... Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:36:04 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1116953?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-break/1115571?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 The Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI) is currently accepting applications for companies wishing to compete in its annual Canada's Top 10 Competition. The competition has been around since 1999, but was initially focused on life science... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:28:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-break/1115571?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1115572?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 Cross-posted from the Breakthrough Blog and WattHead - Energy News and Commentary...With Americans focused on energy prices as never before, a game-changing shift is occurring in the American political climate. The time has come for climate and clea... Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:02:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1115572?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1113871?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 Clean Energy Fuels Corp. has acquired Dallas Clean Energy LLC (DCE), which owns the McCommas Bluff landfill gas processing plant the third largest landfill gas operation in the United States for approximately $19.1 million in cash. Clean Energy h... Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:42:11 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1113871?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-break/1113001?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 WaterFurnance Renewable Energy Inc. continues to cut through the U.S. economic downturn like a hot knife through butter. The company, which makes ground-source heat pump systems for homes and businesses, reported today that sales in its second quarte... Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:32:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-break/1113001?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/infectious-greed/1112697?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 The controversial financial research finding of the week (or maybe year) goes to a new-ish paper (Red and Blue Investing: Values and Finance) looking at the relationship between mutual fund and hedge fund manager performance, and political contributi... Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:31:16 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/infectious-greed/1112697?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1112630?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 Basic components of the CESAR system. Click to enlarge.Canada-based Clean Power Technologies Inc. (CPT), developer of a waste-heat powered steam hybrid system (CESAR, Clean Energy Storage and Recovery, earlier post), has signed a collaboration agreem... Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:49:38 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1112630?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1112636?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 An earlier prototype of the VPG natural-gas taxi, at the New York Auto Show in 2007.Clean Energy Fuels Corp., the leading provider of natural gas (CNG and LNG) for transportation in North America, has joined an investment group providing funding to h... Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:27:12 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1112636?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1112363?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 08/08/2008 - The Blackstone Group, a private equity firm with $113...... Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1112363?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1111023?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 08/04/2008 - Venture capital investments in US cleantech companies grew by 41% to $961...... Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1111023?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1111033?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 Teryn Norris and I published two op-eds this week, one in the San Francisco Chronicle and one in the Baltimore Sun, outlining a proposal for a National Energy Education Act: An Energy Plan We Can Believe In, San Francisco Chronicle, July 31st. Rea... Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:02:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1111033?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1110395?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 07/29/2008 - The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Alexander Karsner and New Zealand's Ambassador to the U...... Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1110395?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-break/1109735?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 Xantrex shares shot up 23 per cent this morning -- reaching their highest point since 2004, the year it went public -- after the company put out a vague press release announcing it is in exclusive negotiations with respect to the sale of the company... Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:00:08 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-break/1109735?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/1109818?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 25 who ditched infotech for Cleantech. This is getting infamous.... Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:30:19 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/1109818?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1109243?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 Selects 44 Exceptional Startup Businesses in Six Categories to Advance to the Next Stage of the ContestThe Clean Tech Open (CTO) tonight announced that its judges have selected 44 finalists in the 2008 California competition, from among more than 100... Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:02:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1109243?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deal-breaker/1108979?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 A Persian Gulf sovereign wealth fund has agreed to an $8 billion partnership with General Electric in a deal that will make it one of GE's top ten shareholders. Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Development and GE are cooperating on a commercial finance division... Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:36:47 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deal-breaker/1108979?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deal-book/1108969?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 General Electric said Tuesday it has entered into an $8 billion joint venture with Abu Dhabi investment agency Mubadala Development with an initial focus on providing commercial finance in the Middle East and Africa. The two companies also plan to wo... Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:56:27 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deal-book/1108969?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-break/1108440?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 First, my take on why now. Obama has already said he'd be keen to give Gore a senior and strategic role in his administration. This indicates that Obama, on the energy and climate file, is prepared to do something bold. So, it makes sense that Gore ... Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:59:33 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-break/1108440?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1108447?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 07/17/2008 - Recurrent Energy, recently raised $75 Million from Hudson Clean Energy Partners...... Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1108447?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1107452?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 Locations for DOE major biofuels projects as of 14 July 2008. Click to enlarge.The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected two additional small-scale cellulosic biorefinery projects in Park Falls, Wis. and Jennings, La. for federal funding of up t... Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:13:08 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1107452?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1107461?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 The National Governors Association (NGA) and General Motors Corp. will work together to expand the nationwide infrastructure and distribution network for E85 ethanol aimed at being ready when next-generation ethanol made from a variety of non-grain s... Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:46:43 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1107461?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/1107238?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 says Cleantech Group. including:SECOND-GENERATION BIOFUELS: While recent increases in grain prices have created controversy over first-generation biofuels, second-generation biofuel companies, which do not rely on food crops as a feedstock, continue... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:06:22 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/deep-green-crystals/1107238?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/silicon-beat/1106364?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 Here s the latest action:Facebook suspends RockYou s Super Wall The social networking site has turned off the Facebook application s viral aspects, like invitations and notifications, presumably as part of its efforts to crack down on spamm... Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:09:33 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/silicon-beat/1106364?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-effect/1106502?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 With growing portfolios of clean energy and environmental technology startups under their belts, Virgin Green Fund of the U.K. and Dubai's Masdar Clean Tech Fund turned to the buyout market...... Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:58:01 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-effect/1106502?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105749?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 Botryococcus braunii, subject of one of the sequencing projects, is a microalga that produces long-chain hydrocarbons. Source: NIESThe US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) will initiate 44 new DNA sequencing projects in 2009, wi... Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:58:55 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/green-car-congress/1105749?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1104621?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 By Helen Aki and Jesse Jenkins, cross-posted from the Breakthrough BlogJust as the time becomes ripe for a major push towards clean, cheap sources of electricity, the Bureau of Land Management threw a two-year stumbling block in the path of solar pow... Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:01:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1104621?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1104623?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 Florida Power & Light Company, a subsidiary of clean energy leader FPL Group, Inc. (NYSE:FPL), today announced new solar energy projects that include the world s largest photovoltaic solar plant and first hybrid energy center, coupling solar... Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:03:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1104623?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1104616?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 06/30/2008 - Florida Power & Light Company, a subsidiary of clean energy leader FPL Group, Inc...... Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-edge-news/1104616?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/silicon-beat/1104273?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 A new plan being introduced today by California s Air Resource Board could cement the state s status as the national leader in cleantech, with an aggressive goal of generating a third of all electricity from renewables and cutting greenhouse gas ... Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:48:52 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/silicon-beat/1104273?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/silicon-beat/1103714?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 Once a year venture capitalist Heidi Roizen and her husband Dave Mohler open up their Woodside villa to host the SD Forum s Visionary Awards honoring pioneers of Silicon Valley. Each time I attend, I m mesmerized by the estate and its furnishings... Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:34:59 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/silicon-beat/1103714?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1103409?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 By Jesse Jenkins, Associate Director, Breakthrough Generation. Cross-posted from the Breakthrough BlogThe solar industry is booming, ramping up production capacity and driving costs down steadily towards the mythical Grid Parity point - the price ... Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:50:00 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/clean-energy/1103409?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/silicon-beat/1101874?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 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... Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:30:22 -0400 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/silicon-beat/1101874?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 http://www.inveslogic.com/sectors/directory/tech-effect/1101431?rsstype=populararticles&cid=39 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....... 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