More clean tech funds
Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Sustainability
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
Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Uncategorized
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 and the menu options were a little different
/usr/bin/ruby and /usr/bin/rails instead of c:\blah
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Lube with shrooms for your chainsaw
Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Sustainability
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 stump decomoses faster and 2) you might be able to eat the mushrooms! Check out: [...]
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San Diego looks north for help marketing recycled water
Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Uncategorized
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 environmental marketing consultant with Resource Trends Inc. in Escondido. …
[Google Search: "environmental marketing"]
Apparently it’s a big [...]
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Investment Firm Seeking REC Proposals
Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Sustainability
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 of Interest. The company hopes to receive offers for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects that [...]
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Clean tech investing to hit $1.5 billion this year
Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Sustainability
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
The article notes that alternative energy is most heavily invested in but up and coming [...]
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Developer.com – Retrieving Map Location Coordinates
Posted by Ivan Storck | Filed under Sustainability
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.
(Via Google Maps Mania.)
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