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...founder of Sun Microsystems, has put massive bets on biofuels, while his former partners at leading venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers (Kleiner Perkins) have belatedly followed in a big way, investing more than $270 million in the green-tech sector and hiring Nobel prizewinner Al Gore as an active partner. As Kleiner Perkins' Bill Joy told a recent gathering of clean-tech CEOs in Boston, "We really do believe that energy and green technology is the largest economic opportunity we've seen so far this century...
...tide began to turn in 2004, thanks partly to rapidly climbing oil prices that instantly made alternative energy more competitive, and partly to government action in the U.S. and elsewhere that provided support for clean tech. The Gore-approved narrative of climate change - as both a threat and an economic opportunity - penetrated the venture-capital community. Adam Grosser, a venture capitalist at the Silicon Valley firm Foundation Capital, struggled to convince his partners that they should expand beyond their traditional IT focus into clean tech. "When I first proposed it, my partners scoffed," he says. But Grosser persisted, and today...
...controversy surrounding the magazine’s launch wasn’t a bad thing all around. When Current TV, Al Gore ’69’s cable channel, did a story about H Bomb, the crew interviewed co-founder Baldegg, who happened to be looking for a job at the time. She now works for the network, soliciting content. “H Bomb looks great on your resume,” Baldegg said...
...middle of the New Mexican desert with my bizarre family every summer of my childhood. But that particular sordid fact from my past, as well as pretty much everything else about me, I firmly intended to shove into the background so that my new persona as a normal, Gore-Tex-loving co-ed could take center stage. All it was going to take, I decided, was a little imagination and a lot of grit...
...steps the country needs to take in order to return to its core values of equality and opportunity, Kamarck said. But other panelists questioned whether optimism is likely to promote change. David Gergen, the director of the Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership, said Al Gore ’69 has successfully used the threat of impending disaster to publicize the cause of tackling global warming. “You have to create a burning platform and the sense that we are going to sink,” Gergen said. Turning toward the coming presidential election...