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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Tom Brokaw: Climate Change is Real

Tom Brokaw: Climate Change is Real

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Days before the Global Climate Conference in Durban South Africa, NBC’s Special Correspondent Tom Brokaw delivered a  strong message in  Silicon Valley for those who deny climate change. ”It’s real, we see it in [...]

Khosla’s Andrew Chung: The Post Solyndra Era

Khosla’s Andrew Chung: The Post Solyndra Era

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues On the day after Steven Chu defends his department’s handling of the DoE loan guarantee to Solyndra, we look at the impact of Solyndra on the venture capital industry.  In [...]

Google’s Green Spending Spree: How it chooses

Google’s Green Spending Spree: How it chooses

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Google is on a green spending spree. By July 2011 it had invested over $700 M in clean energy. Today the figure is over $850 M and set to grow [...]

Jeff Skoll: Humanitarian Award Winner at Tech Awards, Silicon Valley

Jeff Skoll: Humanitarian Award Winner at Tech Awards, Silicon Valley

By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Last night, Jeff Skoll joined an eminent group of change-makers – Bill Gates, Al Gore, Gordon Moore and Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan. He was honored with The [...]