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West Coast Green is the world’s largest conference and expo dedicated to green innovation, building, design and technology. This year’s expo featured more than 400 exhibits and brought over 14,000 designers, green professionals and homeowners together to network and foster new ideas.

Watch West Coast Green president and founder, Christi Graham, as she shares her vision for the show and conference and kicks off this year’s Innovation Pipeline: 50 exciting and innovative green technologies that have yet to hit the market.. Watch video above.

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Innovation Pipeline
Take a look at some of the exciting green solutions featured at West Coast Green 2008.

Water from Thin Air! The Watermill by Element Four collects water vapor from the atmosphere, then condenses and purifies it into drinking water for the whole family. watch video

Be Cool and Save Money. The Coolerado Air Conditioner by Coolerado provides a system that can cool a 2000-4000 sq foot building on 600 watts of power, 1/10 the amount of power used by a regular air conditioner. watch video

Lighting the Way to Energy Savings. Verve Living Systems by Verve is a lighting system that reduces the amount of wiring needed to wire a home and utilizes new wireless, energy harvesting switches and occupancy sensors to reduce energy use. watch video

Solar PV Panel Installation Made Easy. Andalay by Akeena Solar allows residential consumers to “plug and play” solar panels making the panel installation process extremely easy with a sleeker and more reliable system. watch video

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Small Steps... Slash Heating Costs Try These New Tips to Help Consumers Reduce Heating Bills and Increase Comfort this Winter read more Use Green Hotels The GreenSwitch system is designed to control energy consumption in hotel rooms based on the room's occupancy status read more	Big Steps... Be Energy Efficient HP Cuts Costs, Triples Data Center Capacity With New Energy-Efficiency Technologies, Services read more Become a Green IT IT equipment vendors are finding that they are expected to ‘walk the green walk’ as well as ‘talk the talk.’ read more

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This Month:
Peter Hsiao, Partner, Morrison & Foerster, LLP, explains the sources, influence and future of water usage

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California Clean Tech Open: Renewable Energy
"Future of Renewables" Event:
Renewable energy is clean and abundant, but the challenge is to innovate new ways to reach cost parity. Hear perspectives from PG&E, Google, clean tech VCs and policy experts to find out where they are investing, partnering, buying, and growing. Clean Tech Open’s panel also includes leading entrepreneurs using solar thermal plants, efficient wind turbines, wave energy, and renewably produced biofuels.

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