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Clean Tech for California: Winners of the Third Annual California Clean Tech Open 2008

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4.7 β€’ 583 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 4 March 2009

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Clean Tech for California: Emerging Winners Jennifer Billock, Founder, Over the Moon Diapers – Air, Water, and Waste Winner Tuyen Vo, Founder and CTO, Viridis Earth – Energy Efficiency Winner Michael Looney, CEO and President, BottleStone – Green Building Winner Allen Bronstein, Founder and CTO, Focal Point Energy – Renewables Winner Donnie Foster, CEO and President, Power Assure – Smart Power Winner Fraser Smith, CEO, ElectraDrive – Transportation Winner Betsy Rosenberg, Founder, EcoTalk - Moderator Meet the winners of the Third Annual California Clean Tech Open 2008. This statewide competition focuses on keeping California the leader in commercialized green technologies. Learn about the progress that the six winning companies have made as they move their innovations from the lab into the marketplace, as well as the biggest challenges and opportunities for turning clean-technology concepts into viable business models. This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club on March 2, 2009 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There once was a woman who lived in a shoe. A size too snug, but what could she do? But that's not where her story ends. Thanks to a little help from her Experian friends, she got her score into much better shape and relocated to a box fresh new place, with room to grow and a mortgage to suit. Now, she lives in a spacious four-bedroom cowboy boots.

0:23.3

Better your Experian credit score to help get mortgage ready. Experian. Better your score. Better

0:29.0

your story. Welcome to this podcast of Climate One at the Commonwealth Club. I'm Greg Dalton, founder of

0:36.9

Climate One. Climate One brings together thought Club. I'm Greg Dalton, founder of Climate One.

0:38.2

Climate One brings together thought leaders

0:40.0

from around the world

0:41.1

to advance solutions to global warming.

0:44.0

The Commonwealth Club is a non-profit,

0:46.0

non-partisan forum open to the public.

0:48.9

Join us online at commonwealth club.org.

1:04.0

Good evening and welcome to tonight's meeting of the Commonwealth Club of California.

1:10.3

Find us on the internet at commonwealth club.org. I am Betsy Rosenberg. I am a green media pioneer. I do have the scars in my back to prove it.

1:13.3

I've been talking trash and all things green for about 12 years since last century, since long

1:17.4

before it was popular. But the good news is green is here to stay. It's not just a fad. As I say,

1:22.8

if it is, we too, we humans, will be merely passing, and that's not an option, right?

1:28.6

So what we have is a huge opportunity before us to create a new green economy, a new green future.

1:34.8

And the people who are up on this podium are the very embodiment of that future.

1:41.0

We are here to learn about the experiences of the winners of the 2008 Clean Tech Open.

1:45.0

The winner for air, water, and waste.

1:50.0

First, to my left, is Jennifer Billick.

1:53.0

And she is a winner in the diaper category.

1:56.0

Going to go through and introduce each one and then ask each of them to take two or three minutes

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