Monthly Archives: September 2005

More clean tech funds

A couple of more clean tech fund links: Treehugger: Investing In Alternative Energy – New Alternatives Fund PBW: Basic Chart for PS WILDERHILL ENRGY – Yahoo! Finance Technorati Tags: cleantech, renewable energy, sustainability

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Setting up a Rails Development Environment Using Eclipse

I fond some instructions on how to set up a ruby on rails development environment using Eclipse. These instructions are not hard to convert to Mac OS X . The only problems I had were: I was using Eclipse 3.1 … Continue reading

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Lube with shrooms for your chainsaw

Ok dad, and all you other chainsaw-wielding treehuggers: (Yes, some trees can be cut down for the health of the forest) What if your chainsaw was lubed with Mushroom Spores so that when you cut down the tree: 1) the … Continue reading

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San Diego looks north for help marketing recycled water

This article describes how San Diego deals with its problems marketing reclaimed wastewater: San Diego Union Tribune SD looks north for help marketing recycled waterSan Diego Union Tribune, United States -Sep 12, 2005…"They had a water-quality track record," said John Ruetten, an … Continue reading

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Investment Firm Seeking REC Proposals

Investment Firm Seeking REC Proposals: RNK Capital LLC, a manager of environmental investments, announced that it is seeking to invest $25 million in the U.S. renewable energy and energy efficiency market and is inviting interested parties to submit an Expression … Continue reading

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Clean tech investing to hit $1.5 billion this year

Clean tech investing to hit $1.5 billion this year Venture capitalists sunk $369 million into start-ups promoting alternative energy and products that leave less of a dent on the environment during the second quarter, according to the CleanTech Venture Network … Continue reading

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Developer.com – Retrieving Map Location Coordinates

Hey great! Someone explains how to convert an address to a lat/long (called geocoding) for google maps. ‘Retrieving Map Location Coordinates’. This article shows readers how to take advantage of geocoder.us and the PHP 5 SOAP extension to retrieve coordinates. … Continue reading

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