Posts Tagged ‘ cleantech open ’

KCBS: Dynamic ideas for clean water

Aug 6th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Events, General, Media Coverage, News

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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 [...]



KCBS: Recycling for rewards

Aug 4th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Events, General, Media Coverage, Speakers

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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 [...]



Sunpluggers: The Next Big Thing? Probably at San Jose Cleantech Conference

Aug 4th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Events, Media Coverage, News

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 [...]



Utah Pulse: Two USTAR/USU Technologies Reach Semifinaist Stage in Cleantech Open

Aug 4th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Alumni & Finalist Releases

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 [...]



KCBS: New from The Farm

Aug 3rd, 2010 | By admin | Category: Alumni & Finalist Releases, Events, Media Coverage, News

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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, [...]



KCBS: Open Season

Aug 2nd, 2010 | By admin | Category: Events, General, Media Coverage

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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 [...]



earth2tech: viaCycle: Bike Sharing in a Tech-Enabled Box

Jul 30th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Alumni & Finalist Releases, General, Media Coverage, News

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 [...]



Cleantech Open Announces 2010 Competition National Semifinalists

Jun 15th, 2010 | By admin | Category: CTO Press Releases

104 Teams Have Been Selected From Across Five Regions; After Completing a Summer of Intensive Mentoring and Business Training, These Teams Will Compete for More Than $1 Million in Prizes and the Prestigious National Cleantech Title
REDWOOD CITY, CA–(Marketwire – June 15, 2010) – The Cleantech Open (www.cleantechopen.com) business competition announced that 104 semifinalist teams have [...]



Cleantech Open Announces North Central Competition Semifinalists

Jun 15th, 2010 | By admin | Category: CTO Press Releases

Clean and green entrepreneurs compete in a regional competition and then move on to the national level
Minneapolis, MN – June 15, 2010 –  The North Central region of the Cleantech Open (www.cleantechopen.com) business competition announced that 16 semifinalist teams have been selected to represent the region in the world’s biggest clean tech business competition. The [...]



Cleantech Open Announces Pacific Northwest Competition Semifinalists

Jun 15th, 2010 | By admin | Category: CTO Press Releases

(June 15, 2010) SEATTLE – The Pacific Northwest region of the Cleantech Open (www.cleantechopen.com) business competition announced that 16 semifinalist teams have been selected to represent the region in the world’s biggest clean tech business competition. The semifinalists were selected from a talented pool of more than 40 cleantech entrepreneur teams from across the Pacific [...]