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At the Clean Tech Open in San Jose last week, The Real Story met and spoke with John Eichinger, the COO of Filtration Dynamics. John likened the value of water in the 21st Century to that of oil in the 20th Century, and gave us some insight into [...]

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Among the major breakthroughs that the clean technology movement can be credited with are several that take on the problem of water pollution.   Visiting theClean Tech Open last week in San Jose, The Real Story talked to Sharad Hajela, Chief Science Officer, and Alison Wellsfry, Product Development, [...]

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The Real Story spent a day at the Clean Tech Open in San Jose, and had the opportunity to talk with Keynote Speaker Ron Gonen, co-founder of RecycleBank. As its name suggests, RecycleBank is a program that rewards its users for the amount they recycle. Already in [...]

Foundation grant to support second annual Global Cleantech Open
Kansas City, Mo –  July 21, 2010 - The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation today announced it is teaming up with the Cleantech Open, the world’s largest clean-technology business plan competition that encourages the development of innovation and companies. The Kauffman grant supports an expansion of the Cleantech Open, an organization [...]

Keynote speakers and panelists will tackle the hot topics in cleantech; top cleantech startups and this year’s crop of competition semifinalists will demonstrate the best cleantech ideas.
REDWOOD CITY, CA – July 15, 2010 – Competition, has added energy and sustainability experts from Autodesk, CalCEF, Chevron, and Intel to its stellar line-up of keynote speakers and [...]

Startups involved in renewable energy, electric vehicles, water and waste management, energy efficiency, the smart grid and green building exhibited what they hope will be the next big thing in clean technology at the first national conference of Cleantech Open.
Businesses that were competing in, or had previously competed in, the nonprofit organization’s national business competition [...]

VolumeWind™ and DIAL Emissions Monitoring, two technologies under development by researchers at the Utah State University Research Foundation (USURF), have reached the semifinalist stage in the Rocky Mountain bracket of the national CleanTech Open contest.
VolumeWind utilizes laser sensing to help the wind power industry more effectively site wind towers and increase power generation efficiency. DIAL [...]

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The Real Story attended Clean Tech Open in San Jose last week, and talked to Danny Gilliland from Driptech, the manufacturer of low-cost drip irrigation systems for farmers in developing countries.
The idea behind the Driptech system, which runs creates water pressure from the gravity inside an oil drum, [...]

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The Real Story took a road trip to San Jose to meet some of the inventors and entrepreneurs participating in the Clean Tech Open, a conference dedicated to bringing ideas together with mentoring to create viable businesses in the clean tech arena.
Rex Northen, Executive Director of the Clean [...]

ViaCycle, a startup spun out of the Georgia Institute of Technology, aims to take the idea of bike-on-demand networks, strip out the pricey infrastructure, amp up the location-based services, and deliver a system that will let universities and municipalities implement bike sharing programs with more flexibility and lower cost.
The company, a semifinalist in this year’s [...]