green technology

In a relatively inhospitable economy for tech start-ups, the Clean Tech Open and its six $100,000 cash prizes are like an oasis in the desert.

CNET's Kara Tsuboi reports from the 2008 awards show, which celebrates the best clean and green technology companies.

jurvetson/flickr Maker Faire: Call for Makers
Festival: October 18-19
Travis County Exposition Center (7311 Decker Ln.)
Deadline for submissions: September 4

Dell said Wednesday that it is designing its laptops and desktops to consume up to 25 percent less energy by 2010 compared to today.

Welcome to the latest in the “we’re greener than you” game where green technology intersects with marketing-speak.

Green IT is fashionable, but increasingly borders on marketing mumbo jumbo.

Found over at Sully’s place:

One might even wonder if a McCain presidency, combined with a Democratic Congress, offers the best chance for a bipartisan-yet-still-decent emissions-reduction bill to get enacted and stay enacted.

(Think Schwarzenegger and health care in California.) I’m skeptical, but it’s not an outlandish argument.