CNBC - 09.12.2009 - Interview with Tom Knutzen CEO of Danisco, a Denmark company that develops and produces food ingredients, enzymes, and bio-based solutions. He discusses opportunities to invest in technology solutions with solid businss plans and with support from politicians in terms of time horizons and even a carbon tax. All part of the need to combat climate change. Briefly discusses need for support of their natural product designed to replace the rubber coming out of rain forests and from fossil fuel. Not sure it can be cost-competitive, a tax on carbon would make it easier. 

IBMLabs — May 05, 2010 — IBM launches multi-year research effort to model and simulate factors surrounding the health of the individual, community, and the planet. Visit asmarterplanet.com for more information on this and other projects. Objective is better decisions made on understanding of a very complex world actually works, rather than having systems in isolation.

John Doerr is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Together with KPCB's partners, John has backed many of America's best entrepreneurial leaders, including Google and Amazon. Here he talks about his focus as a venture capitalist on recruiting talent and building teams. He makes some clear distinctions between the Internet and Energy market potential, the latter costing more, taking longer and being much more policy intensive.

Special Collection: TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design), Ideas Worth Spreading presents architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account "All children, all species, for all time." http://www.ted.com/

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A business opportunity to monitor emissions:Danfoss IXA Sensor Technologies is a company developing optical sensors for measurement of environmental and energy parameters, gasses, temperatures etc, in harsh environments within industrial, marine, agricultural and horticultural environments.

Cleantech and sustainabile development.