Clean Tech Investing Is Victim Of Downturn « TechPulse 360

According to Dow Jones VentureSource, venture capitalists put just $317 million into clean-tech deals in the second quarter. While that is up 52 percent from the tepid first quarter, it is down a whopping 70 percent from a year ago.

Investments in renewable energy companies fell an even greater 75 percent. Only 16 deals were done compared with 30 last year.

fousesquawk: Hillary Flops in India

Thank you for coming, Mrs Clinton, and do try the chicken tikka before you LEAVE.

Another "diplomatic triumph" for the "Smartest Woman in the World".

Last-Minute Climate Bill Add-Ons - Environment and Energy

Amazing. All told, at least 300 midnight-hour amendments crept into the final bill, most of them designed to woo fence-sitters, some of the provisions sensible (sure, let's make mobile homes more efficient), some of them not (like those extra incentives to promote natural-gas-powered cars, which don't make a ton of sense from a clean-energy standpoint). In theory, the Senate has a chance to strip out some of the more ludicrous measures, but, of course, senators are just as likely to slip in their own last-minute items.

SOCIALIST UNITY » Vestas workers occupy factory

The workers have just occupied the factory to fight for their jobs and the environment, please get down to the Isle of Wight to support them if you can. They need lots of solidarity!What can you do?