In the fourth in our series, Fresh Green Minute, we feature Charlie Rose– the acclaimed interviewer and host of the nightly PBS program, Charlie Rose.
We discussed Tom Friedman’s book, Hot Flat and Crowdedand why Charlie thinks that the United States can reassert its leadership in the world by engaging the energy question.
Andres Wydleris a clean tech executive based in San Francisco, formerly with BPL Global, a smart grid company. He cofounded the Constellation Investment Group of angel investors. In January, he delivered a sold out lecture serieson clean tech entrepreneurship at Stanford University and will repeat the seriesthis summer.
I sat down with Andres at a Sand Hill Road venture capital firm to discuss the reasons for the huge demand for his class; what outstanding startups he discovered at Stanford; his thoughts on the morale of venture capitalists today, and his future expectations for the green sector. We also covered:
Catherine Cook was a big draw at SDForum’s Tech Titans of Tomorrow: Teens Plugged In Conference last Wednesday at the Hewlett Packard Auditorium in Palo Alto. She is cofounder of MyYearbook a social media network for teens which has raised almost $17 million in funding. She talked to me about the site’s Causes Application which allows users to donate money to charities with their virtual currency, Lunch Money.
Catherine told me teens are choosing to go greenand make a big difference to our planet. To date, MyYearbook users (reportedly 10 million of them) have bought 2 million pounds of carbon-dioxide offsets and saved millions of sqft of rainforest. (more…)
I met him at the energetic SDForum Teens Plugged In Conference at Hewlett Packard on May 13, 2009 and we found a quiet corner to talk about: How to become a green influencer
This is the second in our weekly series: Fresh Green Minute
Look out for the another Fresh Green Minute with Adam, when he discusses how Twitter is going green and how employees use software like Skype to be green.
Martin Sheensat down with me at the Flint Center in Cupertino to talk about what motivates him to be green and actively involved in environmental causes. He supports projects like the Sea Water Foundation, which is using seawater to create rich agriculture land from coastal deserts around the world. Check out the new Fresh Dialogues YouTube Channelmore exclusive interviews. (more…)
