Posts Tagged by East Coast
2GreenEnergy's Craig Shields Heading Back East for the Holidays
| December 10, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Renewables - Business |
I’ll be on the East Coast (heading north from Washington DC to Boston) for the week between Christmas and New Years. If anyone wants to meet me to discuss a clean energy business idea over a cup of coffee (or a beer, depending on the time of day), please hit “Contact” and let me know.
Visit to the East Coast Features Trip to See GreenChipStocks
| September 12, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Renewables - Business |
I got home late last night from a visit to the East Coast that featured a trip through Baltimore to visit my much-respected friends at GreenChipStocks. I spoke for an hour and change with Jeff Siegel, and then went upstairs to meet Nick Hodge. These are fantastically astute folks, and I’m thrilled to know them.
2GreenEnergy – Checking Out Sustainability-Related Businesses on the East Coast
| August 8, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Renewables - Business |
Sorry to have been absent from the blogosphere for a bit here.
Thursday I was standing in a dairy in Northern Virginia surrounded by hundreds of cows — checking out a methane digester, talking about waste-to-energy, and how feed-in tariffs and carbon credits change the game for dozens of different types of farmers. A few minutes later a thundershower swept in and drove us to cover, but not before a bolt of lightning struck almost directly over our heads. I thought we were goners, but we were spared. Maybe the Man Upstairs recognized that we were trying to do something good down here.
After the meeting, I took my rental car a couple of hundred miles south, through the stunningly beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. Friday found me in Charlotte, NC talking to some extremely seasoned auto execs about their business plan concerning practical and very affordable electric pick-up trucks. They lament, as do I, that exactly zero dollars of the stimulus money went to start-up EV companies, and that 31 of the 32 grants went to companies over $1 billion in revenues — despite the promises that the core concept was to create growth in nimble and innovative businesses.
I’m in Syracuse, NY right now, preparing for my meetings tomorrow; the discussion centers around paper made from sugar cane waste — affordable, high-quality paper that leaves the world’s trees standing. This trip’s first two meetings were very quite productive — but this has the potential to be the best of the three.
Home tomorrow night.
2GreenEnergy – Taking Off for the East Coast
| July 31, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Renewables - Business |
Next week finds us in Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York – pursuing deals with a few companies with hot ideas in the renewable energy and sustainability space.
The bad ideas I receive seem to keep getting worse. Someone sent me an idea this morning that was the energy equivalent of a miracle weight-loss product that, when taken with a drastic reduction in calories and vigorous exercise, guarantees to take those pounds off.
But the good ideas somehow keep getting better. My trip to New York is primarily to meet a team of people who import paper made of sugar cane waste – a 100% replacement for paper made from trees. They have a rock-solid source, and can sell it at the identical price of competitors’ products that come at the environmental expense of deforestation. I want to be a part of this — in a big way.
As always, I’ll keep you posted.
2GreenEnergy Heads East
| January 11, 2010 | Posted by Craig Shields under Renewables - Business |
As I mentioned, I’m spending the week in New York City and Bermuda this week for a string of meetings that I believe will ultimately bring a great deal of additional value to that which 2GreenEnergy offers its readers and clients.
I landed in Philadelphia last night to spend some time with my parents and brother’s family before these meetings began. Driving around, listening to the radio, talking to people, and re-acquainting myself with the flavor of the area in which I grew up gave me a renewed appreciation for the scope of the task facing proponents of clean energy — it’s not at the top of the list of things that occupy people’s attention here. In fact, very few conversations, advertisements — anything — focus on environmental topics. A traveller’s tip for those wishing a sure winner as a subject of discussion: the terrible danger represented to us all by the recent failed terrorist attack.
