Archive for the 'Australia' Category
Thursday, December 13th, 2007
The Cleantech Show #32 (MP3 - 12MB - 34min)
Interview with Monique Conheady, CEO and Founder, Flexicar
Many of you in major cities are most likely aware of care sharing programs, albeit under potentially different names. Some of you probably fit the demographic just by listening to this show, and may well be participants. Car sharing [...]
Posted in Australia, Podcast, car sharing, clean tech, cleantech, sustainability, transport | No Comments »
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
The Cleantech Show #31 (MP3 - 8MB - 22min)
Interview with Dr. Michael Ottaviano, MD, Carnegie Corporation & CETO
Wave Power seems to be reaching a level of acceptance in the market such that I think its time in the sun i think is rapidly approaching. This is the case Particularly here in Australia where [...]
Posted in Australia, Podcast, clean tech, cleantech, desalination, ocean power, renewable energy | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
The Cleantech Show #029 (MP3 - 13MB - 35min)
Interview with Jan Dekker, Cleantech Ventures - Venture Capital Firm
Following on from our recent shows on Technology Transfer and Research Commercialisation, on this weeks show we look at the process of Venture Capital investment into Cleantech. My guest this week is Jan Dekker, Investment Principle of [...]
Posted in Australia, Podcast, clean tech, cleantech, private equity, sustainability, venture capital | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
The Cleantech Show #024 (MP3 - 15MB - 42min)
Interview with Dave Holland, MD of Solar Systems
There have been a lot of developments in the solar energy sector recently and we have had a number of companies on the show present their unique approach to capturing the sun’s energy. Solar concentration is a core [...]
Posted in Australia, Podcast, cleantech, high efficiency, photo voltaic, renewable energy, solar concentration | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
A new report co-authored by the Cleantech Network and Cleantech Ventures will be released today that details the PE & VC investment occuring in Australian cleantech companies.
At the launch breakfast this morning we heard from Jan Dekker (CV) and Anastasia O’Rourke (CN) present the key findings of the study. I’ve summarised some of these [...]
Posted in Australia, Investment, Report, clean technology, cleantech, private equity, venture capital | No Comments »
Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Yesturday I had the pleasure of being present when Al Gore opened the new FEX-SIM sustainability and cleantech stock exchange in Sydney. Here’s a wrap up.
The exchange is the creation of Brian Price, whom I interviewed recently on the cleantech show during which we discussed the FEX-SIM in detail. You can listed to the [...]

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Posted in Australia, Carbon Tax, Investment, al gore, clean tech, cleantech, climate change, kyoto protocol, stock market, sustainability | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
The Cleantech Show #013 (MP3 - 16MB - 45min)
Earlier this month I blogged about the announcement of the new FEX-SIM Sustainability and Cleantech Stock Market. The Financial & Energy Exchange (FEX) is set to open a new trading board on the Newcastle-based National Stock Exchange (NSX), with high profile green campaigner and former US Vice [...]
Posted in Australia, FEX-SIM, General, Investment, NSX, Podcast, clean tech, cleantech, shares, stock market, sustainability | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
Heres an interesting development. A recent story on The Financial Standard comments on the launching of a new Financial and Energy Exchange in Australia:
The Financial & Energy Exchange (FEX) is set to open a new trading board on the Newcastle-based National Stock Exchange (NSX), with high profile green campaigner and former US Vice President Al [...]
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Friday, June 1st, 2007
If your living in Australia, you would have found it hard not to know that the Prime Ministers National Emissions Trading Taskforce Report is out. For those of you elsewhere in the world, a quick google will bring you up to speed, or you can have a read of this story on news.com.au.
Without going into [...]
Posted in Australia, Australian Government, Carbon Price, Carbon Tax, Emissions Trading, Greenhouse, Report, World, alternative energy, cleantech, climate change, environment | No Comments »