Natural gas companies have spent the better part of two decades exploring, mining, and expanding into new territory in order to bring in more and more of the commodity. Since the recession hit, however, prices have taken a huge dive. Most economists have attributed this fact to oversupply, leading many companies to halt exploration activities [...]
Filed under: Environment, News on September 18th, 2009 @ 6:04 pm
Tagged with: Ben Smith, commodities, energy, energy markets, global, growth, industry, markets, natural gas, prices, recession, resources, strategies, success, sustainability
The LA Times points to the plight of small business centers in the state of California, which offer loans, counseling and other resources to entrepreneurs. Despite the fact that they’ve been busier than ever before, cuts to state budgets have forced them lose out on matching federal funds, turn people away and in some cases, [...]
Filed under: Business, News on August 27th, 2009 @ 11:21 am
Tagged with: budget, Business, California, Community, economy, entrepreneur, funding, innovation, investing, opportunities, opportunity, resources, sharing
I’ve written about the crowd sourcing model for funding previously, both as it applies to charities with social media-styled Jolkona and artistic endeavors in the form of Kickstarter, and now I see today on ReadWriteWeb that this concept is being applied in similar ways with several new models.
Spot.us funds citizen journalism, SellABand allows fans to help [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, Business, News on August 25th, 2009 @ 3:45 pm
Tagged with: charity, Contenture, crowd sourced, donation, entrepreneur, funding, innovation, investing, investment, Kickstarter, micro funding, resources, SellABand, Spot.us, start-up, startup, success
An insightful editorial from the Washington Post authored by John Doerr, partner in the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Jeff Immelt, chairman and chief executive of General Electric, points to the tremendous opportunities in the market for Green Tech solutions and America’s failure capitalize by taking the lead on innovation in this [...]
Filed under: Business, Environment, News, Technology on August 5th, 2009 @ 9:07 am
Tagged with: clean energy, costs, economy, efficiency, efficient, energy, entrepreneur, fundamental, fundamentals, global, government, Green Tech, infrastructure, innovation, innovative, insights, opportunities, opportunity, renewable energy, resources
As we move towards a new way of living alongside our environment, it’s increasingly important that we start to rethink the ways we utilize preexisting resources and spaces, changing the current paradigm of “use up and move on” to something that resembles innovative reuse. Two such large-scale projects point to this kind of thinking, re-imaging [...]
Filed under: Environment, News on July 24th, 2009 @ 9:12 am
Tagged with: Community, Environment, infrastructure, innovation, innovative, opportunity, resources, reuse, spaces, sustainability, Technology, US
Ever since the Academy Award-winning song “Jai Ho” made it to hit charts, the music world has been wondering if other South Asian talents can go global as well.
Envision Solar, a San Diego-based company known for its solar-powered carports, has announced a new product in line with the company’s goal to make use of solar energy in unconventional places.