November 11, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
“Foresters by nature are conservative folk."
— Tom Urban, CEO of CellFor, about why the timber industry is slowly, but increasingly, adopting seedlings developed through somatic embryogenesis. Read article »
"Even Moses tried to extract water from a stone—it worked for a very short while. You couldn't make a company out of it."
— Shimon Peres, president of Israel, on why new companies are trying to find ways to reduce the amount of water used instead of finding new sources (story »)
September 16, 2008 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"We're at a fork in the road. If we're not quite at the fork, we're standing up through the sunroof looking down the road at the fork."
— Dr. Tony Haymet, Director, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, at the Cleantech Forum in Washington D.C. on how the world needs to get serious about either coal CO2 sequestration or demand destruction
December 18, 2008 - Exclusive -
Gary Rieshel of Qiming Venture Partners describes why China is emerging as a lab for water and cleaner coal technologies.