Startup Spotlight: Oroeco tackles climate change, one purchase at a time
Oroeco combines your spending and investment data with data about global climate change to help users track the sustainability of their lifestyle.
Oroeco combines your spending and investment data with data about global climate change to help users track the sustainability of their lifestyle.
In a conversation with Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, film director James Cameron urged technology-minded people to become better stewards of the planet. That was a fundamental message of Cameron’s blockbuster film Avatar, and it’s also the advice he has …
When John Doerr spoke at the Ted conference in March, he broke into tears at the end of a 20-minute talk about global warming.
We heard from some participants that the speech was moving.
The talk is on YouTube, and …
Here’s the latest on environment developments:
Did you know this? — Fluorescent lightbulbs, those funny looking spiral bulbs that cost a little more than regular bulbs, will save you money in the long run (they last longer), and are also …
In his State of the Union address tonight, President Bush is expected to call for a doubling of ethanol use in gasoline.
This is a much delayed but very important step by the Administration to recognize that global warming has …
Amid continued evidence global warming is speeding up, Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed new regulations requiring a 10 percent reduction in the carbon content of all passenger vehicle fuels sold in California by 2020.
Details are still being ironed …
The latest roundup of the action happening in Silicon Valley:
First evidence of YouTube wealth — What do you do with your money, when you get it? One way is to spend $20 million to buy Andre Agassi’s Tiburon estate. …
Turns out, a group of Silicon Valley venture capitalists, including Kleiner Perkins’ John Doerr, and other business folks helped tipped the balance on the landmark global warming bill passed last week.
The bill, AB 32, mandates that California reduce global …