Greening the machine
Monday, August 21st, 2006I’ve got a feature in today’s Toronto Star that takes a look at the trend toward green entrepreneurship, investing and technology adoption. Major corporations such as GE and Wal-Mart are embracing clean technologies to improve operational efficiency and capture the associated marketing benefits. Big-name VCs are aggressively investing in green technology, as are entrepreneurs of the high-tech world — Skoll, Gates, Case, and the Google co-founders — in search of the double-bottom-line benefits of making money and helping the environment. Cleantech investing and awareness is skyrocketing. The feature starts with a profile of Ron Dembo, who founded risk-management software firm Algorithmics in 1989, sold in 2004 for $175 million (U.S.), and has since founded Zerofootprint Inc. — a company dedicated to spurring adoption of renewable energy technologies through knowledge-sharing and creative financing.
Tyler Hamilton is senior energy reporter and columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the cleantech market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper.