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...helped power the IT revolution see clean tech as an investment opportunity that could have no ceiling - and that comes with the side benefit of potentially saving the world. Vinod Khosla, famous for being a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, has put massive bets on biofuels, while his former partners at leading venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (Kleiner Perkins) have belatedly followed in a big way, investing more than $270 million in the green-tech sector and hiring Nobel prizewinner Al Gore as an active partner. As Kleiner Perkins' Bill Joy told a recent gathering of clean-tech...
...Iberdrola - are based in the E.U., and with the region set to enact even stricter caps on carbon emissions, this head start is unlikely to disappear soon. "Europe is the clear leader in clean tech, from a market side, but also the technology side," says Felix von Schubert, a partner at London-based investment firm Zouk Ventures...
...field, too - a reminder that clean tech is about more than just carbon emissions. Another difference is the faster payoff for green investment in China, driven by lower fixed costs and intensifying demand for clean energy. "All clean ventures in China are nearly immediately profitable," says Roman Shaw, founding partner of Shanghai-based venture-capital fund DT Capital. "That rarely happens in the U.S." But while China is almost certain to become the world's biggest market for clean tech - the government is calling for 15% of the country's energy to come from renewables by 2020, the same target...
...park in the city, the other leg—pointing North—reminds you of the fact that this a city in nature, and you get a spectacular view of the Olympic mountains and the Puget Sound.” Marion Weiss, Manfredi’s design partner, expounded on the theme, saying, “The project turned out to be a wonderful acknowledgement of this particular site. We should celebrate two qualities, nature and culture.” Weiss also notes the Olympic Sculpture Park’s unique capability to make art more visible...
...West won't complain too loudly or for too long about the elections. Russia's natural gas is still vital to Europe. The U.S. still hopes Putin can be a better partner on matters like sanctions against Iran. So expect the criticisms of the day to fade, paving the way for Putin and the West to continue talks about energy, trade, international diplomacy. Whatever the state of its internal politics, Russia, these days, is too important to leave out in the cold...