Building Efficiency will be BIGGER than Solar in Mass – Part 2

February 1, 2010

Last week, I wrote about how Building Efficiency will be BIGGER than the Solar Industry in Massachusetts, this is a follow up to my original post.
With huge money flowing through ‘Cash for Caulkers’ (or HomeStar), Massachusetts DOER, and the utility companies to promote building efficiency, we should have a huge reduction in energy consumption and [...]

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UPDATE: Vote for your Favorite Boston Clean Tech Company

January 29, 2010

Voting for Bostons top clean tech companies is going well, but I need more questions to ask the companies.
We started this competition 4 weeks ago because we wanted the communities feedback. I know the companies that I LOVE but I wanted to know who everybody else LOVED. So, we decided to create the Bostons Top [...]

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How Helping Haiti Now Shows us the Planet is Doomed

January 26, 2010

Don’t get fired up, just yet anyway. I don’t have a problem with the loads of international aid and outpouring of public support toward Haiti after the disaster. It shows the amazing compassion of humans and how cooperative our society can be.
However, the situation in Haiti has been dire for the past 20 years. All [...]

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Building Efficiency will be BIGGER than Solar in Mass – Part 1

January 26, 2010

On January 8th I attended a Breakfast Meeting at Foley Hoag with Phil Giudice, Commissioner of the Massachusset’s Department of Energy Resources (DOER).  It was a dynamite presentation that touched on smart grid, solar, biomass, and a variety of other interesting topics -  but the thing that dominated the conversation was this: there’s a tsunami [...]

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What’s your Opinion? Green Tech VS. Clean Tech VS. ‘EnerTech’?

January 22, 2010

A couple weeks ago, I was sent this article by a friend: Metcalfe brings VC perspective to Alternative Energy. Metcalfe is an interesting guy that has a great perspective. I skimmed through it and this part really popped out at me: “Networking isn’t the only goal Metcalfe’s been using to try to change people’s thinking [...]

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6 Steps to How I Landed My Dream Job in Renewable Energy

January 21, 2010

Do you see the guy on the right? This is what I’ll be doing in a couple weeks! 3 months ago I wrote about the 7 things I learned from losing my dream job in renewable energy, and the 7 values that were driving my job search. I guess I like the number 7.
Losing the [...]

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Clean Tech Tuesday: Spire Solar, Huge Tax Credits for Clean Tech, EnerNOC Expanding

January 19, 2010

The new year in Boston has only brought an increase of activity in the clean tech sector. Federal money from the stimulus package has began to trickle in resulting in a new state solar incentive,while the new state energy efficiency program is getting developed and will be released shortly. Boston based companies have continued to [...]

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Video: What IS and IS NOT working in the Clean Energy Industry – Part 2 Non-Profits

January 18, 2010

Last week, I posted the first part of a discussion by Chuck Levin, the Director of New Generation Energy where he discussed what is working and what’s not working in the clean energy industry. At the end of the discussion Chuck began to discuss how New Generation Energy addresses some of the places that are [...]

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Video: What IS and IS NOT working in the Clean Energy Industry – Part 1

January 12, 2010

This is the first video post for The Green Light Distrikt and am really excited about it, along with a site re-design that will be completed by the time I return to Boston from Toronto. Last week, I went to a local Boston area Green Drinks event. I met some great people, reconnected with others [...]

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Clean Tech Tuesday Boston: Boston + China Wind Deal, Alt. Energy to Double, Clean Tech VC Upswing

January 12, 2010

This is the third Clean Tech Tuesday, though the first one was on a Friday. At first, I didn’t think I would be able to post about Boston based clean tech news every week, but things have not slowed down and there has been ample news stories every week that I want to highlight and [...]

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