Category Archives: Green Biz

Green Entrepeneur Sunil Paul

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At the recent Greentech Conference in San Francisco, Betsy had a buoyant chat with Silicon Valley mover and shaker Sunil Paul. Sunil is known for putting his money where his mouth is, and going by what he says here, the future for Green (energy!) technology is bright indeed. LISTEN (7 min)

The San Francisco Clean Tech Forum

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Jonathan Lash
  of the World Resources Institute presents the San Francisco Clean Tech Forum.
LISTEN (11 min)


Clean Technology Partners

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Ira Ehrenpreis is with Technology Partners a Venture Capital firm in Silicon Valley that focuses on clean tech. LISTEN (7 min)

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Charting Wal-Mart’s Progress

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Do you go green with the company you’d like to have, or the company you’ve got? Wal-Mart Vice President of Sustainability Andy Ruben tells Betsy how Wal-Mart is attempting to accomplish its three ambitious and open-ended goals:
1. Be supplied by 100% renewable energy.
2. Create zero waste.
3. Sell products that sustain our resources and environment.
He explains how the Green Xanadu of Wal-Marts in Kansas City uses 20% less electricity to operate and how their customers’ green living can begin with a lightbulb.
PART ONE (7 min) PART TWO (12 min)

MIT’s Sustainable Business Lab

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Professor of Management and Engineering Systems John Sterman of MIT’s Sloan School of Management tells Betsy why being a green MBA is less of a lonely pursuit than when he was at Sloan, and of the launch of their S-Lab, a way of harnessing students’ demand to include sustainability in their bottom lines, and to begin working in the big leagues right away. LISTEN (8 min)

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