Deal Radar 2010: Urban Green Energy

Urban Green Energy (UGE) is a manufacturer of wind turbines and related products such as wind- and solar-powered street lamps. The company is a player in the “small wind” market, which includes turbines with rated capacity of up to 100 kilowatts. Such turbines are used from northern Canada to Antarctica for a variety of on-grid

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Deal Radar 2008: Carbonetworks

Carbonetworks helps companies develop effective carbon strategies by providing a software platform to find solutions to reduce costs and monitor energy usage. The software monetizes a client’s carbon inventory and provides a clear view of whether carbon represents a financial asset or liability to the company in the future, given its planned investments and business decisions.

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Deal Radar 2008: Creative Water Solutions

Palm, corn and sugarcane may be getting a lot of headlines in the mainstream media as the world seeks alternates to fossil fuels, but as my interview with Glen Kertz shows, a huge variety of plant species can be used in Cleantech solutions. Today’s Deal Radar post discusses another use of plants in cleantech. Creative

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Deal Radar 2008: NTR Global

Net Transmit & Receive S.L. (NTR Global) is a leading European maker of remote support/access solutions with a presence in over 60 countries. Co-founded in 2000 by Tomás Casanovas, Luis Font, and Joan Pons, the company is one of the biggest players in the European market with more than 14,000 customers. NTR is headquartered in Barcelona,

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Green Israel

Sagi Rubin from Gemini participated in writing this post by Danny Cohen. Israel is already known to be a very active place for tech startups. These days, you have everything in Israel: Security (Checkpoint!), Pharmaceutical (Teva!), Communications (Comverse!), Software (Amdocs!), and even Internet (ICQ, Yedda, Answers.com). But what about Green tech?

What Cleantech Is and Why It Matters

By Dominique Trempont, Guest Author Having spent 14 years of my professional life at Raychem Corporation, the world leader in material science and technologies, I was exposed to cleantech businesses before they were named that way. I am very interested in this field because it addresses the quality of our air, water, the sustainable availability

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