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...accuse others before a vote eliminates one suspect. In subsequent rounds more players are voted off until no civilians or killers remain. The first to eliminate all members of the other side wins. For decades, Killer provided amusement exclusively to bored children. But in 2004, Chinese Ph.D graduates from Silicon Valley introduced a new futuristic, highly ritualized form of the game in Shanghai...
...companies in 2006 - double the percentage in the U.S. Green start-ups searching for cash "have gone from a desert to drinking from a fire hose," says Nancy Floyd, head of the alternative energy?focused venture-capital firm Nth Power, which also has invested in Imperium Renewables. Like Tobias, Silicon Valley stalwarts who helped power the IT revolution see clean tech as an investment opportunity that could have no ceiling - and that comes with the side benefit of potentially saving the world. Vinod Khosla, famous for being a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, has put massive bets on biofuels, while...
...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 clean tech accounts for 10% of Foundation's portfolio. "This is not a problem...
...article on itemlive.com. So what does this well-loved, business-savvy student aspire to do with his life? He wants to take some time off to travel to South America, meet up with the long-lost relatives in Scotland who invented the famous Tennant brew, initiate a startup in Silicon Valley, and serve his country by going into politics. Oh, and he wants to convert his family’s home videos into DVDs because “the VHS’ simply are not going to last.” That will be a good...
...couldn't create a better advocate for the green-collar movement than Jones. A Yale-educated lawyer who founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, the magnetic Jones moves easily between worlds, at home preaching to inner-city high school students or mixing with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. But everywhere Jones goes, he repeats a simple message. "Give the work that most needs to be done to the people who most need the work," he says, and solve two pressing problems--pollution and poverty--at once...