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Veterans Find Jobs, and New Mission, in Cleantech
See the full San Jose Mercury News article here. When military veterans search for jobs, they often want more than a paycheck. Many say they look for rewarding work and a team of dedicated people…
With California Carbon Cap-and-Trade Program Launch, Experts Debate Economic Side Effects
Read the full article on SFPP’s page here. Full text below. By Barbara Grady, SF Public Press – November 15, 2012 At 10 a.m. Wednesday, California’s potentially revolutionary carbon cap-and-trade program launched in a humdrum…
SolarCity to bring Solar to Military Housing
DBL Partners’ portfolio company SolarCity is embarking on a major project to bring solar to more than 120,000 military homes in the next five years. The impact will be huge. Find the article here. ALBUQUERQUE,…
As U.S. Hesitates, California Pours Billions Into Green Energy
(Reuters) – California, long the national leader in clean energy policy, is poised to double down on its investments in the sector, with billions in new subsidies set to flow in over the next few…
DBL Partners’ Nancy Pfund Named an “AlwaysOn Power Player in Greentech”
We’re excited to report today that our own Nancy Pfund has been named an “AlwaysOn Power Player in Greentech” by the editors of AlwaysOn. This is the publication’s inaugural competition to find the “handful of…
DBL Partners’ Cynthia Ringo Talks Women in Venture Capital with USA Today
USA Today tech reporter Jon Swartz (@jswartz) recently convened a panel of female venture capitalists at Facebook’s headquarters to discuss strides these investors have taken in the shrinking VC industry. To simplistically state the result: there’s a…
Now that climate change is on the agenda, is it time to be scared of a Romney Presidency?
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See the full Pando Daily article from the day before the Presidential election here. In the US, Hurricane Sandy’s destructive power was largely focused on the East Coast. But it has also had a significant…
Tesla Model S Wins “Automobile of the Year”
America’s Leading Automotive Lifestyle Magazine Picks Model S as the Best New Car for 2013Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) announced today that Model S, the world’s first premium electric sedan, was chosen as winner of…
BrightSource Raises $80M More for Concentrating Solar Power
Full article from GreentechMedia.com is here. Eric Wesoff, Herman Trabish: October 24, 2012 BrightSource Energy, a concentrating solar thermal technology firm, just announced that it raised more than $80 million in equity financing,…
When Resources are Scarce, Why so Much Food Waste?
We’re lucky to live in a country that takes its food supply for granted. The closest any of us get to experiencing an actual food shortage isn’t really comparable to one at all; we usually…
DBL Partners Makes the Impact Assets 50
Due to some travel we were slow to get this up on the blog, but we are no less thrilled and honored to have been added on Tuesday to the Impact Assets 50 (IA 50…
Want a green job? Here’s who’s hiring in wind energy, solar
See the original article in the Christian Science Monitor here. posted October 3, 2012 at 9:00 am EDT This month has been a fortuitous one for green jobs, despite the ups and downs particularly in…