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Leith Sharp
Posted by: Suhit Anantula on: October 28, 2009
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While working in the Greening job I learned a lot in terms of systems and inspiration from Leith’s work at Harvard. She has done some amazing stuff at a bureaucracy like Harvard.
She was the first paid environmental officer on the Kensington campus when still a student and after graduation was hired to “green” [...]
Project Better Place – Concept Video
Posted by: Suhit Anantula on: July 3, 2008
Shai Agassi was predicted to be the future CEO of SAP. Instead, he started Project Better Place. This is an ambitious game changing idea to create infrastructure to support electric cars. In a way, his work is one part of the chicken and egg problem of extending the range of electric cars.
Israel and Renault-Nissan will [...]
Om Malik talks to Vinod Khosla about Data centers
Posted by: Suhit Anantula on: June 7, 2008
An interesting talk with one of the biggest venture capitalist in the clean tech area.
Khosla talks about why he does not pursue the hot markets and the concept of ‘punctuated equilibrium’ in the technology world.
Carbon Neutrality to Carbon Advantage
Posted by: Suhit Anantula on: January 10, 2008
Dave Douglas in a Op-Ed in Business Week writes about the carbon or sustainability opportunities available for companies. Dave is the vice-president for Eco Responsibility at Sun Microsystems and like other Sun executives he writes a blog which makes for good reading.
Dave writes about the growing interest in Carbon Neutrality, which is impossible in actual [...]
Branson on Clean Energy
Posted by: Suhit Anantula on: January 7, 2008
“I think the trick with clean energy is not to be able to charge more. Because you can’t see global warming, I don’t think people are willing to pay more for it. It’s got to be a viable investment if it’s going to be successful.”
- WSJ
Green Jobs – How to find them?
Posted by: Suhit Anantula on: December 10, 2007
The Environmental Magazine – E, has a list of 10 Green jobs to look at. The specific jobs are not important. What is important to understand is the potential of ‘green’ jobs.
“People think there is some kind of mystery, ‘Where are the ‘green’ jobs?’” says Marie Kerpan, founder of consulting practice Green Careers, “There are [...]
Michael Norster on China, India and Alt Energy
Posted by: Suhit Anantula on: September 14, 2007
From the Eureka Report:
Will China’s growth impact on your investment decisions?
I think China is an absolute powerhouse. The world has underestimated China for far too long even though there are all these platitudes now about how important China will be in the global economy. America has a serious problem because China will emerge as [...]
Gunns, Cousins, Wood and Turnbull
Posted by: Suhit Anantula on: August 23, 2007
Well, the story of the pulp mill proposed by Gunns in the state of Tasmania in Australia is the story of many names, environmental issues, political plots and cost-benefit analysis.
Starting with the names. Gunns is proposing the cleanest and greenest pulp mill in the world. Wood is the owner and millionaire founder of wotif.com; one of most successful internet travel site. Cousins was the politicial consultant to John Howard, the prime [...]
China’s Green Incentives
Posted by: Suhit Anantula on: August 1, 2007
Incentives matter. China has been promoting and rewarding its local officials around the country based on GDP growth figures. This incentive model has played a part in the creation of the great Chinese growth miracle of the last two decades.
The Age reports that China has changed its incentive model:
CHINA has announced a new promotion system [...]
13 Socially Responsible Careers in Finance
Posted by: Suhit Anantula on: July 18, 2007
In Green jobs with Growth potential; I wrote that; “Makower has some good advice. It is important to gain a skill and then have a green tinge to it and not get pigeonholed into a environmental division… In that sense, environmental divisions will become redundant. The environmental lens will become part of the other lenses [...]
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