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SF Exploratorium: World’s Largest Net-Zero Museum

SF Exploratorium: World’s Largest Net-Zero Museum

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues What’s the biggest and most impactful exhibit at the new San Francisco Exploratorium, opening April 17th? Get this: It’s not the 330 year-old Douglas fir tree, sliced open [...]

Al Gore: On Carbon Tax, SOTU and Silicon Valley

Al Gore: On Carbon Tax, SOTU and Silicon Valley

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Yesterday, Al Gore braved the picket line in Silicon Valley to appear at the Commonwealth Club and discuss his new book, “The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change.” Needless to [...]

Elon Musk on SpaceX IPO, Environment & Flying Cars

Elon Musk on SpaceX IPO, Environment & Flying Cars

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Last night Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors joined me in conversation for the Revolutionaries Series at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. We explored his journey from South [...]

SolarCity IPO: Sunny Outlook with Clouds on Horizon

SolarCity IPO: Sunny Outlook with Clouds on Horizon

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues This week SolarCity made public details of its plans for a $200M IPO, an all too rare sunny event for the clean energy sector in this doom laden post Solyndra [...]

The Future of Green Building

The Future of Green Building

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Did you know that buildings account for almost 40 percent of total energy use in the U.S.; almost 40 percent of carbon dioxide emissions; and 12 percent of total [...]

Apple’s iCloud to be “insanely green”

Apple’s iCloud to be “insanely green”

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues I recently recorded a story for KQED radio about Apple’s “dirty” iCloud and the more I dug into the issue, the greener the world’s most valuable company appeared to get. [...]

Elon Musk & SolarCity: How does he contribute?

Elon Musk & SolarCity: How does he contribute?

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues What do Elon Musk, SolarCity and Burning Man have in common? The answer is illuminating for those seeking climate friendly solutions to our energy needs. Elon Musk is well known [...]

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 [...]

Bloom Energy: A Closer Look at Adobe’s Bloom Boxes

Bloom Energy: A Closer Look at Adobe’s Bloom Boxes

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Ever wondered why so many companies and institutions like Google, eBay and Caltech are installing Bloom Energy’s fuel cell Bloom Boxes? Here’s a fascinating breakdown of the figures for Adobe’s [...]

2012 Energy Policy After Solyndra – Axelrod Transcript

2012 Energy Policy After Solyndra – Axelrod Transcript

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Here is a transcript of my interview with David Axelrod on January 27, 2012 re. Solyndra, 2012 Energy Policy and President Obama’s State of the Union speech. Video here ALISON [...]

2012 Energy Policy After Solyndra – Axelrod Interview

2012 Energy Policy After Solyndra – Axelrod Interview

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues The implosion of Solyndra last year was a blow to the Obama administration’s clean energy technology program, but as the 2012 State of the Union underlined, it hasn’t dampened the president’s enthusiasm for [...]

Bloom Energy: 2012 Update

Bloom Energy: 2012 Update

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Bloom Energy‘s Director of Product Marketing, Asim Hussain, made a rare public appearance at SVForum’s Clean Tech Conference last week and shared some details about Bloom’s 2012 plans: New manufacturing [...]