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Remote control
April 27, 2011
Ed Pleet says the cell phone is the center of people’s universe.Not a total surprise, considering Pleet is a developer for Ford Motor Co.’s (NYSE: F) connectivity group, and one of the people behind a new mobile app designed to keep people in tune with their electric vehicles.
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Clean tech, meet the CleanWeb
April 21, 2011
Get ready for the CleanWeb.That was the message of veteran clean tech investor Sunil Paul, founder of Spring Ventures, speaking at GigaOM’s Green:Net conference in San Francisco on Thursday.
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Wastewater innovation doesn’t have to be hidden from view
April 18, 2011
 
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Will Zipcar's hot IPO pave the way for car sharing startups?
April 15, 2011
Zipcar’s better-than-anticipated Nasdaq debut this week may be good news for the country’s biggest name in car sharing. It could also help jumpstart a small crew of startups offering a new twist on the traditional car sharing model.
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Building efficiency
April 14, 2011
 If California is going to meet its ambitious energy efficiency goals, it’s going to have to retrofit more than its building stock – the state’s workforce needs an overhaul, too, in the form of training, quality standards and incentives for jobs well done.That’s according to a report released last month by the University of California, Berkeley and currently under review by state energy regulators.
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Go fish
April 12, 2011
When the United States Department of Agriculture earlier this year doubled its recommendations about how much seafood Americans should eat, it may have been doing a favor to the country’s hearts and waistlines. But it also added pressure of increasing demand to the world’s already-taxed seafood supplies.
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Ag startups see green
April 4, 2011
Startups coming up with ways to feed an increasingly hungry planet reaped almost $74 million in venture capital investments in this year’s first quarter, says Kachan & Co., a San Francisco clean tech research firm. 
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USDA unveils label for biobased products
March 31, 2011
Get ready to see another ecolabel on store shelves.This one’s coming to you courtesy of the feds. On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture unveiled the first products that will bear its new ecolabel for biobased products through its BioPreferred products program. 
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ET Water scores funds for smart water
March 22, 2011
Water startups don’t get much venture capital love.Blame the artificially low cost of water, complex regulations or the slow pace of change of utilities, but investment in water technologies has been a drop in the bucket compared to the funds poured into other clean tech sectors. In 2010, water made up about two percent of total clean tech venture funding, according to the Cleantech Group.
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Skyline Solar doubles its power
March 22, 2011
Skyline Solar says it has developed a way to make concentrating photovoltaic systems that double the power production of its first-generation systems.The company unveiled its new system, called the X14, on Tuesday along with plans to build its biggest installation to date, a 500-kilowatt project in the Mexican state of Durango.
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