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...based company called the Cleantech Group hosted a venture-capital forum aimed at driving investment dollars toward alternative-energy entrepreneurs on the mainland. Opportunities appear to be plentiful, despite the dim economic environment. Forum attendee Patrick Tam, CEO of Beijing Tsing Capital, says he is investing heavily in Chinese clean-tech companies - most recently in a Beijing firm called NetPower Technologies, which makes a battery that helps power-hungry businesses reduce their electricity consumption. "The government is just letting the venture-capital market rip in this field," says Tam. "It's exactly what needs to happen to develop new technologies...
...everything from pedestrian bridges to bus stations. That in turn contributes to big energy and other environmental savings. Some of the innovations are startling: the white concrete that American architect Richard Meier used for the Jubilee Church in Rome, for example, contains titanium dioxide, which keeps the concrete clean while also destroying pollutants around it, like car exhaust...
...clean water situation in Africa is pretty horrible,” said Chioma Achebe ’10, president of Harvard African Students Association, which hosted the charity...
Many take the clean, hot water in their dorm room showers for granted. But for some, like those living in Ghana, South Africa or other African countries, clean water is more precious than anything else...
More than 50 people attended a charity event called “Dinner for Water” in the Student Organization Center at Hilles penthouse last night to advocate for providing clean water sources in African countries...