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An American’s first impressions of India often include images of alternate approaches to trash management, intermittent electrical power supplies and issues of environmental sustainability. In this interview with Trudy Heller, those approaches are seen from the perspective of Heller’s work designing products for environmental sustainability and providing training to executives in environmental management.
That the term “carbon offset provider” has become part of the business lexicon may be an indicator that companies are finally getting serious about neutralizing their impact on the environment. Consumers are finding that the Internet can be a valuable resource in their own smaller-scale efforts to follow suit.
The virtual world of the Internet has become a hotbed of activity designed to ease the real-world pollution problem. The Chicago Climate Exchange, or CCX, is a regulated exchange whose members are committed to cutting their emissions. It is the only cap-and-trade system in North America for six greenhouse gases.
Shrugging off gloom over the economic outlook, Intel Capital on Tuesday announced its first “clean-tech” initiative in China, a $20 million investment in Trony Solar Holdings, one of China’s biggest makers of solar energy equipment. “The world economy is in a very difficult position, but innovation is the way to help the companies out of financial crisis,” said Cadol Cheung, managing director of Intel Capital for Asia Pacific.
For those who are hungry for some good economic news, venture capitalists apparently are seeing green in clean technology. Indeed, so-called green technology — everything from eco-friendly auto parts to alternative fuels to smart buildings to streamlined manufacturing processes — appears to be blooming, even if the world economy is in wilt mode.