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Is Social Media a Fad?

Socialnomics: Social Media Revolution (Short 2:30 version 9-27-2009)

How does a feed-in tariff work?

A boost for renewables
By RICHARD BLACKWELL Globe and Mail
A feed-in tariff, sometimes called a “standard offer,” is a fixed price that a utility pays producers for renewable electricity
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A Smart Grid for Intelligent Energy Use

NY Times: A Mad Dash for Smart-Grid Cash
By the time the late August application deadline had expired, a Department of Energy program to distribute $615 million to fund projects demonstrating smart-grid technology had attracted 140 proposals requesting a total of $2.3 billion. http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/a-mad-dash-for-smart-grid-cash/

Carmanah EverGEN 1710 developed in partnership with frog

Carmanah EverGEN 1710
Solar powered parking-lot light delivers affordable off-grid illumination
Carmanah Technologies (TSX: CMH) today unveiled the newest design in solar LED lighting: the EverGEN™ 1710 solar-powered area light. Designed as a compact stand-alone lighting alternative for off-grid parking lots and other municipal, commercial or industrial areas, the new EverGEN 1710 light combines advanced [...]

New $1 Billion Green Technology VC Fund

Venture Firm’s ‘Green’ Funds Top $1 Billion
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
August 31, 2009
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Vinod Khosla, the prominent venture capitalist who has been investing hundreds of millions of his own dollars in green technology companies for the last several years, will now invest other people’s money, too.
Khosla Ventures, the firm he founded [...]