What is potential for investing in clean technologies?
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About the video: ‘What is potential for investing in clean technologies?’
Bill Joy talks about his involvement with a venture capital group focused on investment in clean technology solutions. Unusually the firm also works as an influential pressure group on public policy issues. They were behind Governor Schwarznegger’s recent bill to reduce carbon emissions in California, which has created a business environment in which innovation can thrive. He sees immense investment possibilities in areas such as renewable energy, water treatment and nanotechnology. In all these fields new technologies are making giant strides. See also: Amory Lovins
Total views: 2,612
Filmed: Berlin, Germany on 10 September 2006
Credits: Interviewer - Marcus Morrell, Camera and Editor - Marcus Morrell
Copyright © 2006 Big Picture TV
About Bill Joy
As Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, Bill Joy pioneered the design of the computer chips and software integral to today’s internet.
Since 2005, his primary focus has been on investment in green technologies as a partner in the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers.
He is widely known for having written the essay “Why the future doesn’t need us” (2000), where he expresses deep concerns over the development of modern technologies.
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