Topic: Vinod Khosla

Vinod Khosla's Green Ventures

Most of Vinod Khosla's environmental startups are efforts to reduce our dependence on petroleum -- both by making better use of oil and by finding other sources of liquid fuel. The rest address solar and geothermal power and ...READ»

The King of Green Investing

Vinod Khosla is pouring his own millions into science experiments to counter global warming -- and to prove he's the smartest guy in the Valley. READ»

• Khosla's Green Ventures
• Silicon Valley's Green Angel Investors
• The Music Industry Goes Green

Venture Capital, " Rightsized"

The old guard of venture capital is changing. The reason? Older partners downshifting as new money starts to flow in.READ»

Update

In September, criticism forced Van Jones ("The Green-Collar Preacher," May 2008) to resign from the Council on Environmental Quality. We could have told the Obama administration he would be controversial -- we wrote, "His mightiest ...READ»

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October 2008: Reader Feedback

In the Fast Lane By the time our July/August issue arrived in subscribers' mailboxes, cover girl Katie Hoff had broken the world record in the women's 400-meter individual medley at the U.S. Olympic trials, shaving 0.34 of a second ...READ»

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Don't Burn Out!

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Web 2.0: Wish You Were Here

I've been ducking in and out of the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco this week, and it has been pretty consistently great. Just to name drop for a moment: the coffee breaks offered the chance to sip java with the likes of former ...READ»

Davos: Tech Pioneers Gathering

I spent the afternoon in a "closed" meeting of the Tech Pioneers. Unlike the previous sessions I've attended, this one was a workshop, and my group spent nearly two hours talking about "Crossing the Chasm" by the subject-master on ...READ»

Biomimicry: Nature-Inspired Designs

The inventor of Velcro ripped cockleburs from his dog's fur. Da Vinci and the Wright brothers studied birds in flight. And now a rising number of designers are looking to nature for inspiration. Companies as diverse as Boeing, Ford, General Electric, Herman Miller, HP, IBM, Kraft, Nike, and Patagonia are welcoming biologists to the design lab. Here's a sampling of Mother Nature at work.READ»

• 2008 Masters of Design
• Biomimicry: Design Inspirations from Nature
• The Vision of John Maeda

Is Print Doomed?

A blogger and a magazine exec square off. Is paper too one-way in an interactive world, or will the Web actually beathe new life into dead trees?READ»

What We Learned In The New Economy

What We Learned A Brief History Profiles Vocabulary Where Are They Now? What You Learned It's a foggy, rainy December afternoon at the port of Redwood City, California--the kind of day that makes reality hard to discern, ...READ»

How Exciting!

Former Excite founder Joe Kraus, who capped off his mid-twenties with one of the biggest tech IPOs of the dotcom era, is hoping to repeat history with his new company, Jotspot. So what's it like to do it all over again at the ripe old age of 33?READ»

In Search of the Sixth Sense

In this expanded interview transcript, inventor Ray Kurzweil discusses birth, death, and the potential offered by non-biological thinking processes.READ»

Is Print Doomed?

A blogger and a magazine exec square off. Is paper too one-way in an interactive world, or will the Web actually beathe new life into dead trees?READ»

Building A Better Skunk Works

In a bold effort to nurture new businesses, IBM is putting its best and brightest in charge of its risky startups.READ»

Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough

William McDonough, the godfather of green design, has been hailed by everyone from Hollywood to Silicon Valley to the Chinese government as the environmental savior. His radical "cradle to cradle" idea -- in which every product, building, and city is designed in an infinite loop with zero waste -- has earned him the Presidential Design Award for Sustainable Development. He was Time's "Hero for the Planet" and has been profiled in documentaries from Thomas Friedman's "Addicted to Oil" to Leonardo DiCaprio's "The Eleventh Hour." And yet, McDonough may in fact be paralyzing his own design revolution.READ»

The World's Most Innovative Companies

We canvassed the experts, analyzed the products, and crunched the numbers. From visionary upstarts to storied stalwarts, here are companies that dazzle with new ideas -- and prove beyond a doubt how business is a force for change. We call them the Fast 50.READ»

• Presenting the 2008 Fast 50
• The Faces and Voices of Google
• Slideshow: The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies