Inside Cleantech: Flowers & chocolates for solar

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News brief: Solar affair continues on Valentine’s Day Investors still have feelings for solar. Especially when a leader posts unexpectedly strong results. Buoyed by a mammoth 30 percent gain yesterday on positive quarterly earnings, First Solar and other solar stocks are receiving more loving attention today. Deal tracking: Big returns …

Inside Cleantech News Update

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Deal tracking: More solar heads to market Another solar IPO hits the docket in our weekly roundup of who’s investing where, and who’s acquiring who in cleantech. Exclusive: Glitnir to bring geothermal to India Workers to return to Iceland with iPods full of bhangra. Interview: Challenging silicon’s grip on solar …

State of Green Business 2008

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January 2008 – A new report is available on the State of Green Business in 2008 from leading expert Joel Makower and the editors of Greenbiz: www.stateofgreenbusiness.com

Cleantech Forum® XVI – San Francisco

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February 25–27, 2008. A world class program as cleantech crosses the chasm. Inspiring. Provocative. Educational. Since 2001, Cleantech Forums have facilitated cutting–edge market initiatives, forming and shaping today’s global cleantech industry. Each conference features panel discussions and presentations sharing thought leadership from leading investors, corporations, governments, entrepreneurs and service providers. …

Green Apple Cleaners is turning the Big Apple green

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(CSRwire) New York, NY – January 31, 2008 – New York State has filed lawsuits against at least three companies for groundwater and soil contamination that they attribute to perc, the dry cleaning chemical perchloroethylene (PCE) used by over 90% of all drycleaners. In California and recently proposed in New …

Green For All

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Have you heard? It’s all over the news: people everywhere are talking about the possibility of a recession. From Wall Street to Oakland, economic tensions are high. Congress and the President are scrambling to develop a stimulus package, to jump-start the economy. Bush is calling for more corporate tax breaks …

Inside Cleantech News Update

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Exclusive: Energy generation cleans up in 2007 Investors poured over $5 billion into cleantech last year, with solar standing out as a major theme, according to new data today. Full Story >> Deal tracking: eSolar gets Googled While Google put $10M into eSolar, Khosla Ventures has been on a roll, …

Environmental Finance Publications

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UK power firms hit as regulator proposes carbon windfall tax 17 January: Share prices of carbon-exposed UK power generators slipped yesterday, following proposals from the market regulator to claw back windfall profits from the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. More… World Bank in donor talks on multi-billion climate fund (from Carbon …

Inside Cleantech News Update

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Exclusive: FutureGen goes FutureBust U.S. President Bush led the cleantech section of his State of The Union speech this week touting clean coal. Then, yesterday, his administration killed its flagship clean coal project. What gives? Full Story >> Deal tracking: Solar gets a break Hundreds of millions of dollars changed …

Inside Cleantech News Update

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News brief: SunPower shares drop on fourth quarter report The solar market gets a bit cloudy as a fall in profit at SunPower drags down the whole sector. Full Story >> Deal tracking: Performance monitoring pulls in more cash Fat Spaniel bulks up with $18 million, along with deals from …