While the country remains in a fury over
absurd corporate bonuses and looking for economy scapegoats, it was a refreshing change to be at the
Green:Net conference yesterday, surrounded by distinguished entrepreneurs,
technologists and investors committed to solving the world’s biggest issue:
climate change.
In the spirit of "we’re running out of time," San Francisco’s Mayor Gavin Newsom kicked off the one-day event after a long-delay, setting in motion the urgent pace and tone among the 200 participants. Newsom did a great job of rallying the troops, inspiring action and sharing some recent successes both in his City and within California.
Who killed the Electric Car? It may have been old school electrical engineering as much as the Petro overlords.
What better way to create the next-generation Electric Car than by piggybacking off of the Darwinian race to make laptop batteries ever more efficient? Powered by lithium-ion cells and the backing of PayPal cofounder Elon Musk, Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and ex-eBay chief Jeff Skoll, Martin Eberhard has created Silicon Valley's first real auto company: 
