FROM CTOSE: Fresh Box

Attention foodies! Twin sisters Allison and Megan are innovators with a fascinating product Fresh Box, a new food packaging system. Described as a “soda stream unit for food”, it is the first home food preservation system that brings an established industrial food packing technology to the home consumer, enabling users to increase their access to fresh… Continue reading FROM CTOSE: Fresh Box

From CTOSE: April Richards

Did I hear you say mushroom packaging? April Richards, Program Manager at the Environmental Protection Agency’s SBIR program tells us about this amazing innovation and others that cross her desk in hopes of investment. The Small Business Innovation Research grant program works to fund entrepreneurs who are innovating in ways that meet their mission: to… Continue reading From CTOSE: April Richards

Interview with Sherri Goodman

Sherri Goodman is a former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense and one of the top advisors to the Defense Department and top corporate executives on foreign policy, especially as it relates to energy and the environment. We know that the conflicts in the hotbeds of the Middle East and Russia are as much about oil as they are about national security. Listen… Continue reading Interview with Sherri Goodman

Phyliss Cuttino of the Clean Energy Program

How does policy affect CleanTech business start ups? Click here to listen to Phyliss Cuttino, Director of the Clean Energy Program, Pew Charitable Trust, discuss this and their new research on the energy sector . This interview took place at the 2013 ARPA-E Summit in Washington, DC recently. Click here to listen

Rebecca Blank, Deputy Secretary of Commerce

GCR host Joan Michelson spoke with Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank at the 2013 DC Auto Show about the dearth of women in the auto industry – 1.8% on the shop floor and about 20% in offices – and what can be done about it.

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