By Katie Fehrenbacher
While the articles that drove the most clicks this year were a combo of lists and FAQs, we know our loyal readers came back on a daily basis to check out our solid reporting, our trend-spotting, our startup profiles and our scoops. We worked hard in 2009 to cover [...]
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Editor’s Note: GBDS.US has a deep history as an advocate for renewable energy and sustainable development including one of our founders raising angel funds for Stirling Energy System over a decade ago – now fully capitalized and building the two largest solar thermal power plants in the world in southern California in 2010.
Press Release: December [...]
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By Jack M. Keen
I was stunned when I first heard it. The directive came from a senior executive of a global, old-line firm in a capital-intensive industry. He was encouraging his ROI business-case developer to use soft, rather than hard, benefits for justifying a proposed systems project. What a sea change [...]
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By Cascadia Capital CEO Michael Butler and Senior Vice-President
Part I, Picking the Winners
We are living in the Age of Uncertainty. Nobody knows how bad the economy really is or how long the pain will persist; nobody knows what type of stimulus package we need or whether a stimulus will actually work. And nobody knows where [...]
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By Julia Levitt
Yesterday I sat in on a press teleconference with the three co-chairs of the bipartisan coalition Building America’s Future: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The main topic of discussion: the results of a national poll, paid for by their group, which suggest that [...]
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