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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 [...]
Why Green Roofs Matter: Paul Kephart
By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues It’s well known that green roofs are good for the environment, but did you know they can have major impact on your productivity and energy costs? Paul Kephart has been [...]
Susan Sarandon, Will.i.am on Green Design
By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Susan Sarandon and Will.i.am shared tributes to Green Design guru Bill McDonough at the Cradle to Cradle Design Innovation Event this month in San Francisco. “We are a community of [...]
Meryl Streep: Green Inspiration
By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues The first thing that strikes you about Meryl Streep is her grace and poise. Like a true royal, she glided into the throng of green designers and architects gathered at [...]
PlanGrid Offers Solution to Blueprint Blues
By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Last week, Fresh Dialogues visited PlanGrid, the recent Y Combinator startup winner that’s tackling what some call the “insane paper” problem that the construction industry produces. Computer-Aided Design (or CAD) works well [...]
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”
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Novacem: Carbon negative cement
By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues This week, we explore the progress of Novacem, the London based “green cement” manufacturer. On April 22nd, 2010, the company received an appropriate Earth Day honor: Novacem was named [...]
Kevin Surace: Green Rock Star, Entrepreneur of Year
By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues Silicon Valley’s Kevin Surace has just achieved Rock Star status – of the Green Biz variety. The CEO of Serious Materials was picked as Entrepreneur of the Year by Inc. [...]
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