The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) has proposed changes to federal patent law that would help speed up the patenting process for green technologies. No additional fee would be required to take advantage of the accelerated exam... [more]

Priscilla Burgess is presently one last fire-resistance test away from really putting the product that she's developed over the past three years into motion. She's already cleared the R-value and sound-resistance tests needed to certify that the buil... [more]

Green Chip Review submits:by Nick HodgeThe days of discussing cleantech viability are over. At this point, we need to start looking at how the industry will mature and grow. The industry is moving so quickly that if we don't start now, we risk get... [more]

Guest Blog - Max Branzburg, Clean Pacific VenturesDespite cries to the contrary, the venture capital industry is not broken. The poor performance over the past decade leading critics to write VC off as fun while it lasted has been driven by an ... [more]

Banyan Tree Capital Advisors has closed its first India focussed fund- Banyan Tree Growth Capital LLC at $100 million.The Fund has been anchored by FMO and DEG, the development financial institutions of Netherlands and Germany respectively, it said i... [more]

Exclusive interview by Bill Roth, founder of Earth 2017 and author of The Secret Green Sauce with Steve Fludder, Corporate VP for GE ecomagination posted in Triple Pundit on GE ecomagination's plans to double cleantech investments and revenues. ... [more]

Amid the poster-board displays and smiling, hand-shaking entrepreneurs at the Cleantech Open National Conference in San Jose last week, a trend emerged. A number of the 100 semifinalists vying for the 18 regional finalist spots in the competition hav... [more]

By John Addison (7/26/10)Solar energy growth continues its strong growth. For the 30 years from 1979 to 2009, solar energy has grown 33 % CAGR (compound average growth rate). For this decade, over 40 percent is forecast. Although 2009 was hurt by a s... [more]

Everywhere you look people are trying to do more with less. Reduce costs, increase efficiency, reduce energy use, recover resources. There are strong economic drivers to do all of these things, they also happen to be sustainable.Last Thursday (July 2... [more]

Richard T. StuebiAs pretty much everyone knows, it's been a hot summer -- here in the Northeastern U.S. and across the globe -- as 2010 is shaping up to be the hottest year on record. This weekend was brutally so, and to capitalize on it, the Plain-... [more]