Jacob Brody
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Shoeboxed to make expense reports easier with iPhone app
Online receipt scanning and expense management service Shoeboxed.com wants to become an essential tool for mobile businesspeople. The company recently introduced an iPhone app that lets users upload pictures of their receipts to be scanned and indexed. Using proprietary optical character recognition and computer learning… Continue Reading
Regional carbon market will have a limited effect on cleantech investment
As the Chicago Climate Exchange began trading as part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) on Friday, considerable doubt remained about whether the cap-and-trade system will actually effect emissions reductions. The system is plagued by poor design, merely a marginal improvement over the status… Continue Reading
Who wins big from the Climate Security Act? Not solar or wind, but carbon capture
The United States Senate is on break for summer recess, so the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act (CSA), a bill intended to nationally lower greenhouse gas emissions, remains unpassed. But with an election victory by Barack Obama continuing to look likely, it’s possible the bill could… Continue Reading
Northwind Ethanol, another cellulosic startup, claims cheap production from retrofitted plants
Ethanol production has proved to be both cost and energy intensive, distilled with basically the same methods used in biblical times. The latest effort to crack that problem is by Northwind Ethanol, which claims that its low-cost method can efficiently make ethanol using feedstocks like… Continue Reading
India joins the race for carbon credit investment
India has long trailed China in drawing foreign investment for cleantech projects. With prices in the energy and emissions markets surpassing historical highs, the venture capital community and Indian government are finally directing investment into Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects.
While India is currently the second… Continue Reading