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Climate One is the place where big ideas get heard.

With thoughtful and insightful discussions on policy, business, science, and culture,

Climate One founder Greg Dalton gets to the heart of the matter.

It's our future. It's time to come together.

I'm Greg Dalton, and today on Climate One, we're going to Silicon Valley to ask if tech

companies can be cool and green.

As the web moves to the cloud, there's growing interest in how internet data centers are

powered.

When you visit a web page, does a poof of black smoke go up somewhere from a coal-fired power plant over the next hour

we'll look into how clean your clicks are and hear what grades apple ebay facebook google and yahoo

get on renewable power we also will discuss green energy moving into red states and whether

environmentalists and technology executives are shouting at each other,

are sitting down and having a beer together. Along the way, we will also include questions from

our live audience here at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. This program tonight is

sponsored by Carbon Five, a boutique software consultancy that recently remodeled the new

Climate One website. On the show today, we welcome four guests.

Gary Cook is senior policy analyst with Greenpeace International.

Laurie DeValle is global director of Green at eBay,

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