"It's about seeing the world as what it can be and not what it is." - K.R. Sridhar, founder and CEO of Bloom Energy.

 

I come back from Brazil, functioning on two nights of little sleep, but I cannot restrain myself from gushing and hoping that the much hyped "Bloom Box," which launched today, will revamp our nation's infrastructure over the next several years.

 

Not having read much news the past two weeks, I was jolted by friend and former classmate now studying in Denmark, who sent me a quick one-line email asking me what I thought about the Bloom Box, the creation of Bloom Energy, a Silicon Valley start-up that has received hundreds of millions of venture capital money. (more...)

I had almost forgotten about CNN, but today at the gym, I spent my time on the elliptical machine watching Campbell Brown interview's of Thomas Friedman.  I still have not read Friedman's book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded, but I'm motivated to snag a copy after watching him this afternoon.  His point of tying in the current financial crisis with the debate over climate change really resonated with me.  After all, the financial crisis resulted from large financial firms taking huge risks, the cost of which taxpayers are now shouldering.  Buying oil from the Middle East, and sending our currency abroad, for an energy source that has huge geopolitical, financial, and environmental risk, is also a threat to our future.  With the supposed hacked emails causing an uproar in Congress and amongst the right, more of our peers are doubting the size behind global warming.  According to Friedman, that's neither here nor there.  (more...)

On Wednesday I attended the Best Events Los Angeles conference as a guest of Jaime Nack, President of Three Squares Inc.  The organization invited Jaime to speak about organizing "green" events at a time when companies and event planners don't have the green to spend.  Jaime was the Director of Sustainability and Greening Operations for the Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) in Denver, Colorado, which a year later is still noted as a case study in organizing and producing sustainable events.  She shared her experience and suggestion at a panel focusing on greening events. (more...)