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GoingGreen Tackles Water Supply
In the face of scarcity and infrastructure breakdown, some of the most promising advanced water tech companies are providing new sources of water supply—from repairing leaks to small scale desalination to remediation.
Laura Shenkar will moderate “The Supply Side of Water” at 11 AM on 14th September, addressing how we can create new sources of water. The panel will bring together Andy Seidel from Underground Solutions, Fatemeh Shirazi, CEO of MicroVi Biotech, and Bill Wescott, the new head of innovation at Veolia, Americas.
The GoingGreen events are entering their 4th year, and are bringing together what is possibly the most elite cross-section of VCs, investment bankers and entrepreneurs involved in greentech. Last year over 600 people attended GoingGreen at Cavallo Point (http://goinggreenwest.com/2009/). This year our program once again surveys all sectors of greentech, with a focus on key enabling technologies and the evolving strategic outlook for cleantech.
More details can be found in the Going Green Silicon Valley 2010 program, http://goinggreensv.com/2010.
Low-Pressure Membranes Panel at the Water Innovations Summit
The second annual Water Innovations Summit will take place in Chicago on September 28-29, 2010 at McCormick Place.
Keynotes include famed researcher Craig Venter; Don Correll of American Water; Finn Neilson of Veolia NA; Fabien Cousteau; Dr. Mark Shannon U. IL.; and the EPA Department of Administration for Water’s Michael Shapiro. Others speakers are confirming every day from IBM, Hach, Badger Meter, Siemens and Nalco, among others.
Laura Shenkar of The Artemis Project will be moderating a panel on the promise and challenges of low-pressure membranes in providing energy-efficient water treatment solutions.
For more information please visit http://www.waterinnovations.org/event.php
Water Analytics at Cleantech Focus Los Angeles
Population growth and industrial development continues to drive competition for scarce water resources around the world. Now more than ever, businesses are recognizing water as a real business risk that requires effective management and policies.
Laura Shenkar will be speaking on the panel “The business case for water analytics: IT solutions for increasing water efficiency” at Cleantech Focus Los Angeles on November 14, 2010. Key global stakeholders in effective water management will convene to discuss innovative corporate water policies, current best practices in water management, relevant policy and regulation, and the technology solutions available now and on the horizon.
BlueTech Innovation Forum a Success
Co-chaired by Laura Shenkar of the Artemis Project and Paul O’Callahan of O2 Environmental Inc., the BlueTech Innovation Forum was held at The Renaissance Stanford Court in San Francisco on June 8, 2010. The Forum welcomed over 200 attendees, including executives from advanced water technology companies, venture capitalists, corporate and municipal customers, water specialists, researchers, utilities, government agencies, and thought leaders from the water industry.
Read the overview of the BlueTech Innovation Forum with links to speaker presentations.
The Artemis Project lauches the BlueTech Blog – April 2010
The BlueTech Blog is an open forum for commentaries in the world of innovative water technology. Leaders in the field write about the most pressing water challenges of our time and what solutions are promising. Read it today!
Over a hundred years ago, Henry Ford transformed the automobile from a custom-made, luxury item to a low-cost, standardized product that became the engine of the world economy. Today, water purification and waste water treatment remain fragmented industries, driven by custom projects to fix small parts of a rapidly decaying infrastructure. Could the design skills that made the Mustang Convertible and the Pontiac transform the emerging water technology sector into Detroit’s next great industry?”
Cleantech Blog: A Perfect Storm for Water – March 2009
Paul O’Callaghan, CEO of O2 Environmental writes: “Investment in water deals represented just 1.8% of the total investment in the Clean Technology area in 2008. There are number of reasons for this and also signs that this is changing.”
National Onsite Water Reclaim Standards: The White Paper – March 2009
This white paper summarizes national standards for onsite water recycling quality. Decentralized water systems are central to the water challenge that the United States is facing. They are a public health challenge today, and yet offer the best solution for specific aspects of the adaptive, resilient water supply infrastructure we will need in the future. Executive Summary for National Onsite Water Reclaim Standards March 2009
Water and the Consumer Contract – April 2008
Can the water industry borrow go-to-market tricks from others cleantech sectors? Laura Shenkar of The Artemis Project thinks so.
Setting off in 2008, we note that getting out the message of climate change and the value of innovative technology to address it simply isn’t enough to bring about sweeping new behaviors. How so? Most of us aren’t yet commuting to work by bus, nor have our utilities stopped using coal as primary source of energy throughout the U.S.
After Going Green — What Kinds of Water Technology We Might See Next Year
A Green Tech Conference’s Maiden Voyage
Last week, a different kind of venture investment conference took place up in Sacramento, California. Rather than focusing upon the full range of renewable energy technologies, Going Green addressed “the whole system” that will need to respond to the new world that climate change and resource limitations are bringing—from Green cities to green buildings to mega-projects, water and renewable energy.
Recent industry initiatives include
Water Study for Environmental Entrepreneurs
www.e2.org
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Through Improved Water Policy for Environmental Entrepreneurs
Laura co-authored a study that quantitatively evaluated the connections between energy and water conservation. This study determined that through water conservation, California can reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by up to 7 million metric tons of CO2 equivalents per year by 2020.
