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Beyond Copenhagen: 8 Ways to Revitalize the Climate Talks
More than a month after the conclusion of COP15 — the UN climate talks in Copenhagen — negotiators and observers alike are…
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Meet Qinetiq: A British defense technology company, Qinetiq, is testing a new type of lithium-ion battery based on lithium-ion iron-sulfide chemistry for…
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Top Green Stories of the Decade: Take a stroll through 10 years of green headline grabbers, including these stories: climate took over…
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Greenwash or Real Deal?: “Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells Copenhagen that Iran, a fossil fuel giant, wants to dive into renewable energy…
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Trade Tension at Copenhagen: “China is demanding that a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gases prohibit nations from imposing trade sanctions, further…
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Copenhagen: Leaders Arriving, A "Crime Scene," and A Walk-Out
COPENHAGEN — The weekend break between the two weeks of the Copenhagen climate negotiations showed two things: on one hand hundreds of…
To Be or Not to Be: Green Business Leaders' Call to Action
COPENHAGEN — The time for business leaders to affect the Copenhagen climate change negotiations is now, Tim Flannery, chairman of the Copenhagen…
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Copenhagen: Progress on New Tech Mechanism
COPENHAGEN — UN Climate Chief Yvo de Boer described the state of the climate negotiations at the Copenhagen talks on Thursday as…
Better Place's Danish Dreams, Plus a Test Drive of Its First Electric Car
While I’ve been skeptical of electric vehicle infrastructure Better Place’s grand ambitions to sell EV service like cell phones and cover small…
AMEE and AlertMe: Measuring a Home Worker's Carbon Footprint
The United Nations’ historic Climate Change Conference, the COP15, hosted in Copenhagen (read more coverage over on our sister site, Earth2Tech) —…
Copenhagen: 7 Lessons Learned From a Decade of Carbon Finance
Almost a decade after launching the world’s first carbon fund, the World Bank said it has learned a series of lessons about…
Copenhagen: UN Climate Chief Weighs in On Climategate, EPA Ruling, Work Ahead
COPENHAGEN — The United Nations top climate official Yvo de Boer weighed in on a variety of high-profile issues at a press…
Feds Give Green Patents an Express Lane: What It Means for Startups
As global leaders settled in this week to negotiate a climate agreement in Copenhagen — at the U.N. summit that the VP…
PHOTOS: Loudest COP15 Protests Call for Support of Developing Nations
COPENHAGEN — Out of the tens of thousands of attendees roaming the halls of the Bella Center, the loudest calls to action…
LIVE: Copenhagen Opening Ceremony Kicks Off
The opening ceremony for the Copenhagen climate talks just kicked off with a video of a child’s nightmare of global destruction, followed…
Heard Around Copenhagen
There’s some great coverage already coming out of the Copenhagen climate talks, and there’s going to be a lot more over the…
Notes From Copenhagen: A Bit of Warmth Amid the Cold
COP15, the largest conference about the environment and its challenges is being held in Copenhagen, Denmark. Earth2Tech editor Katie Fehrenbacher is on the ground covering the event for her and GigaOM readers. In her first report, she outlines the chaos she has encountered so far.
Why the Copenhagen Climate Talks Are Important for Silicon Valley
Over 5,000 miles away from the Bay Area and Silicon Valley, where tech entrepreneurs often have an undying faith in the free…
Shai Agassi: See You In Copenhagen
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop15) kicks off Monday in Copenhagen, and promises to be a hugely influential event. Entrepeneur Shai Agassi has weighed in on its importance for governments and public awareness.
How Greener Cars & Smarter Transit Fit Into COP15
“Given the role that transport plays in causing greenhouse gas emissions,” UN climate chief Yvo de Boer told participants in a UN…
Greentech Guide to Cop15
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The Party Line — Phone Buzz of the Day
Here are some of today’s phone conversations I enjoyed reading or viewing on the web, along with some brief thoughts: Verizon Hanging…
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Epic Fail: International climate talks taking place in Copenhagen this December are in danger of collapse as a result of the economic…
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Cozy Coda-Goldman Sachs Connection: Former treasury secretary Henry Paulson, onetime chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs, recently invested in electric car…
Alan Salzman: Bringing Silicon Valley Entrepreneurship to Global Climate Policy
Last week’s World Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen drew more than 500 executives from cleantech firms, utilities and some of…
What the Smart Grid Can Learn From the Internet
[qi:_earth2tech] The success of the future smart grid depends on using the wealth of knowledge created from building out the Internet. Ethernet…
WildBlue Launches Bid for Stimulus Funds
WildBlue Communications, the Greenwood Village, Colo.-based satellite broadband provider, today demonstrated how it can deliver download speeds that are up to 12…
VMware Virtualization Package Has Lots to Offer, But Will It Sell?
VMware has dubbed the major refresh of its server virtualization product line, vSphere, the “mainframe of the 21st century.” While I’m impressed…
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