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  Walmart’s Green Power RFP

  01.04.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Walmart’s Green Power RFP

  A colleague sent this to me yesterday. I’m warmed (pun intended) to see Walmart take a bold move toward energy efficiency. Using the roof space on it’s massive buildings to host solar arrays may make some sense. Certainly Google thinks so and Federal Express (Oakland, CA sorting facility) has had solar cells on the roof […]

• Business, Energy

  Interesting Funding Model

  01.03.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Interesting Funding Model

  One of our Partners brought this to my attention this morning and I thought it was worthy of a mention. Polaris Geothermal has completed it’s first round of equity financing recently using what looks to be a “spec company” approach – they seem to have a different approach in Canada to getting this done. See […]

• Business, Commentary, Media

  Ad Nauseum – Analysis of the Rose Bowl

  01.02.07 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  I posted an entry in the past couple of weeks stating that NFL Football games were now unwatchable product due to the over commercialization witnessed while viewing a game on tv and that over the course of the holidays I would view a pro game and college game with an eye toward ad to content […]

• Business

  Anatomy of a job search

  12.29.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Anatomy of a job search

  Despite the upturn in the economy around Silicon Valley, it can still be tough to secure employment. A colleague shared the statistics of a job seeker he knows with me, and I thought I’d share them with you: 417 Days of job search (~ 14 mos) 513 “To-Do” items logged 182 application events 144 cover […]

• Business, Energy

  Looking to sell renewably generated electricity?

  12.28.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Looking to sell renewably generated electricity?

  Then we at Montara Ventures want to speak with you. If you meet the following requirements, and want to sell your electricity, contact us: Electricity generated by some verifiably renewable means Ability to sell more than 80,000 MWh/year Desire to enter into a long term business relationship (>5 years) Location on or near US West […]

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