Entries from February 2010

February 26, 2010

I Love Waste

“I love waste,” said Emily Bockian Landsburg, CEO of cleantech startup BlackGold Biofuels , when I ran into her at an an event in New York last night.  BlackGold Biofuels has developed a process for turning trap grease–the gunk collected in grease traps in restaurant sink drainpipes–into high-quality biodiesel. BlackGold Biofuels has licensed its technology [...]

February 20, 2010

Future Cleantech Execs Gather in NYC

This week marked the kickoff of the CleantechExecs program at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU (NYU-Poly). The program will last 10 days spread over several months and will include appearances by an array of speakers from industry, finance and government. The program is intended to prepare mid-career executives for a transition to the cleantech industry. [...]