Clean Technology Blogs

Clean-tech firms gird for funding gap – Globe and Mail

SHAWN McCARTHY OTTAWA — From Thursday's Globe and Mail Published on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009 12:00AM EDT Last updated on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009 2:36AM EDT GLOBAL ENERGY REPORTER Source Globe and Mail Investors are returning to the clean technology sector but with a sharper eye for risk and more demanding appetite for reward. But as private investors move back into financing for renewable energy, efficiency and pollution-abatement companies, money is running out at the federal g...

Clean technology – What is it and what does it mean?

Clean technology includes the renewable energy (wind power, solar power, biomass, hydropower, biofuels), information technology, green transportation, electric motors, green chemistry, lighting, and many other appliances that are now more energy efficient. It is a means to create electricity and fuels with a smaller environmental footprint. And it is the need to make green buildings both more energy efficient and environmentally benign. Environmental finance is a method by which new clean techno...