Stroll through practically any business school in the country — or any of the fast-multiplying U.S.-style B-schools overseas — and there can be little doubt that an MBA remains a hot commodity. With the start of classes now upon us,…
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Are We Entering Cleantech’s Dark Ages? | GreenBiz
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The budget brinksmanship that, amazingly, lasted all the way into the first days of August pushed me over the edge. Whether a willful choice, or some kind of subliminal denial, I opted for a partial mental vacation in recent weeks,…
Can Skyonic combine chemical production and pollution mitigation to transform carbon capture into a profitable business? | Global CCS Institute
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I recently caught up with Skyonic, an Austin (Tex.)-based carbon capture startup that is expanding a demonstration unit into a production-scale facility at a cement plant in San Antonio, Tex. Due to come on line in 2012, Skyonic’s new deployment…
Cisco Quietly Shuts Down Building Energy Management Program | GreenBiz
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Another one bites the dust. At the end of June, the names Google PowerMeter and Microsoft Hohm were chiseled on the grave marker of casualties in the race to build smart grid-linked software and gizmos. To this list of famous fallen, Cisco Systems adds…