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Prostitution and biofuels

June 25, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"[We're a] company that is not out trying to go public and whore itself out for investors."
— Bernie Mock of biodiesel company SE Energy, building a 320M gpy plant in Virginia

Why biodiesel isn't

June 19, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"Biodiesel is only a fuel because somebody has said it should be a fuel, not because it's a molecule that someone would traditionally have thought of as a fuel."
— Jennifer Holmgren, Director, UOP Renewable Energy & Chemicals

GM: just do it

June 15, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"We've done it in a lab, we're ready to do it for real."
— General Motors VP R&D Larry Burns on GM tooling up to make fuel cell cars

Water action needed in Southern California

June 7, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"We cannot afford to wait."
— Southern California Water District Chairman Timothy F. Brick on the impact of climate change on water supply before a U.S. Senate subcommittee

The speed of Enertia

June 1, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"When it arrives on the truck, you get your crew and in about 10 days, you've got yourself a house."
— Michael Sykes of green builder Enertia on the speed of his homes' construction

McCoal

May 25, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"Coal is like fast food. It's cheap and accessible, but bad for our health."
— Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures at Cleantech 2007 in Santa Clara

Surf's up

May 21, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"I'm forecasting a very wet 2007, and I don't mean rain."
— Roger Bedard, EPRI ocean power research leader, at a recent press event in California

Staying power

May 15, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"We didn’t set out to be climate martyrs. We set out to be climate pioneers."
— Ralph Cavanagh of the U.S. National Resources Defense Council on persistence at the California Cleantech Open kickoff in San Francisco

Eyeing the green

May 8, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"Saving the world is not a substitute for being financially successful."
— JP Morgan managing director Mike Dorsey on FountainBlue's May 8th cleantech panel in Silicon Valley

A corny thing to say

April 23, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"We're not locked into corn."
— Telles chief brand officer Brian Igoe on feedstocks for company's new biodegradable plastic

The Way Starbucks Sees It #234

April 12, 2007 - Cleantech.com Quote o' the week
"For the last two years I have driven to work on soybeans."
— Martin Tobias of Seattle-based Imperium Renewables, quoted on latest Starbucks to-go coffee cups
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