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SolarCity’s Lyndon Rive: On Biz Model, Growth & Domination

SolarCity’s Lyndon Rive: On Biz Model, Growth & Domination

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues SolarCity’s CEO Lyndon Rive sat down with Fresh Dialogues last week to share details of the solar company’s business model, rapid growth, and ultimate goal of being the world’s largest energy [...]

Google’s Green Czar To Leave Company

Google’s Green Czar To Leave Company

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues (see November 8 update below) Today Bill Weihl, Google’s Green Czar confirmed that he’s leaving the company as of November 8th. What does this mean for the future of [...]

Tech Wonder Woman Shares Tips: Marvell’s Weili Dai

Tech Wonder Woman Shares Tips: Marvell’s Weili Dai

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues “Believe in yourself.” That’s the core advice from Weili Dai, cofounder of Marvell, whom some are dubbing the new Tech Wonder Woman, given the recent ouster of Carol Bartz from Yahoo. Dai’s advice [...]

Game Changers Highlights: Newsom Demands Californians Wake Up

Game Changers Highlights: Newsom Demands Californians Wake Up

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Here are video highlights from the SVLG Game Changers 2012 Conference which took place in Silicon Valley, September 13, 2011. Gavin Newsom, CA Lieutenant Governor was on fire as he talked [...]

How to Predict the Future: A Tom Friedman Lesson Plan

How to Predict the Future: A Tom Friedman Lesson Plan

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Today, we’re presenting the second in our new Lesson Plan Series based on Fresh Dialogues interviews. The series is compiled by Lisa Lubliner, our new Fresh Dialogues Education Expert.   [...]

A Sputnik Moment for U.S. vs China?

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues “This is our generation’s Sputnik Moment,” said President Obama in his State of the Union Speech last night. He’s referring of course to the space race with the Soviet Union, [...]

Tom Friedman: The Clean Tech Race

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues This week, a report by the Pew Charitable Trust was released, underlining how much the United States is trailing in the clean tech race. Phyllis Cuttino, Pew’s Program Director [...]

A Clean Energy Future: Advice from Silicon Valley

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Last night, President Obama addressed the nation for the first time from the Oval office. His subject: the BP oil spill disaster. Although some say he was “vapid”, Obama seized [...]

Tom Friedman: China Envy Video

Tom Friedman: China Envy Video

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues I sat down with Pulitzer Prize winner, Tom Friedman, just before he delivered a lecture to an expectant Foothill College Celebrity Forum audience at the Flint Center in Silicon Valley.  We discussed his [...]

Paul Krugman: On China and Climate Change Transcript

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues This exclusive interview with Nobel Prize winner, Paul Krugman was recorded on November 12, 2009 in Silicon Valley. Dr. Krugman was in town to deliver a lecture as [...]

Paul Krugman: On China, Climate Change

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Here’s the transcript.  SEE VIDEO of Part One (Part Two coming soon) In advance of Obama’s trip to China this week, Nobel Prize winner, Paul Krugman gave a [...]

Tom Friedman: Transcript of Fresh Dialogues Interview Part One

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues This is a transcript of my interview with Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and author Thomas Friedman. I caught up with Tom at Foothill College’s Celebrity Forum in Silicon Valley on [...]