Virgance gets funding, deal to install solar for businesses

Virgance gets funding, deal to install solar for businesses

Virgance, a San Francisco startup with multiple business lines all focusing on social activism, has scored $750,000 in seed funding and is also unveiling a new deal that should help it install more solar panels on roofs around the Bay Area.

We’ve covered Virgance before, although it’s a difficult company to track given that it has several founder teams, each focused on different ideas. There’s Carrotmob, which just soft-launched today; it organizes groups of consumers to… Continue Reading

Green marketing spreads on Facebook with winery application

Green marketing spreads on Facebook with winery application

Over the past year, it has become difficult to read business news without finding a mention of how one company or another has launched a recycling initiative or installed solar panels. Motivations vary, but marketing departments long ago realized that going green generates good press.

Enter Village Green Energy with a Facebook application it’s calling Green My Vino. With it, users give “gifts” of renewably generated electricity to each other; each time they hit certain milestones,… Continue Reading