The following is an excerpt from an Energy Solutions Forum Policy Primer for the New York Energy Week Series Breakfast, The Rise of Cleanweb.

While cleantech emphasizes the use of renewables to answer climate and energy issues, cleanweb offers a more leveraged means by applying information technology to addressresource constraints and energy efficiency requirements. In addition to infrastructure strategies and policy mandates, infotech tools combined with entrepreneurship are applied to solve environmental and resource challenges.

Unlike cleantech companies that are highly capital intensive and technology-reliant, cleanweb companies can launch with minimal restraints.  Since 2011, cleanweb communities have been organizing hackathons around the world to motivate passionate programmers and entrepreneurs to create applications and solutions for problems related to transportation, energy, water, food, and waste.

You can read the rest of the primer here.

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