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What other news comes from the world of cleantech? Following are some recent stories you might have missed: * The UK’s greenhouse gas emissions declined by 1.7 percent in 2007, according to a final estimate from the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Total emissions of six greenhouse gases
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Need to catch up on your cleantech news after the weekend? After you’ve done with shoveling away the snow on your steps, check out some of the recent headlines you might have missed: * While many of the adverts aired during yesterday’s Super Bowl broadcast less than wowed, GE’
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Couldn’t keep up with all the cleantech news coming out yesterday? Here are some stories you might have missed: * Texas is moving ahead with plans for $5 billion (US) worth of new electricity transmission lines to deliver wind energy to its big cities, Reuters reports. The top wind-energy producer
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What was happening in the world of cleantech yesterday? Following are some of the headlines you might have missed: * It’s on again, it’s off again. After initially granting its OK to the project, the German government has ordered a halt to an ocean fertilisation experiment in the Southern
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Will the declining value of the British pound (though it’s been on the uptick today) impact cleantech spending in the UK? We don’t have access to a working crystal ball (does anyone?), but we’ll offer a few thoughts: * While it broke all records last year, cleantech investing
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Couldn’t wade through all the cleantech headlines yesterday? Following are some of the stories you might have missed: * In yet another sign of an environmental and scientific turnaround in Washington, DC, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is holding off its approval of a new coal-fired power plant in
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Skipped the cleantech news reports over the weekend? Not to worry. Greenbang’s got you covered with today’s roundup of stories you might have missed: * When you think about the potential for solar power, talking rubbish bins probably aren’t the first application to come to mind. But, hey,
biofuels
What else is new in cleantech? Following are some headlines you might have missed over the past 24 hours: * Colorado-based biofuel firm Range Fuels has received an $80 million loan guarantee from the US Department of Agriculture to help build a cellulosic ethanol plant in Georgia. The plant is expected
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Spending too much time obsessively tracking the latest cleantech news on your Google Reader? Despair not: here’s a roundup of some of this week’s top stories you might have missed: Cleantech funding hit new heights in ‘08. Yes, we’ve covered this one already, but it’s worth
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It’s official: 2008, while being generally miserable for many business ventures, was a banner year for cleantech. The Cleantech Group reports that worldwide cleantech investments last year soared to a record high of $8.4 billion (US). It was the sector’s seventh consecutive year of investment growth. Whether
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£250m of funding has been awarded to UK universities to set up PhD-level doctoral training centres for research into climate change, low carbon technology and energy efficiency. One of the universities to bag a chunk of the pot is the University of Leeds, which has won a £6.5m grant
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Silicon Valley venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners has unveiled its cleantech predictions for 2009. We covered Lightspeed’s predictions for 2008 at the same time last year and the big theme then was solar (view those 2008 predictions here). Here’s the five cleantech trends Lightspeed’s Andrew Chung
