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Tigo Energy and 8 Israel-related Cleantech Headlines, Week of August 9, 2009

Lisa Damast
By Lisa Damast
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During the week of August 9, 2009, talk continued about plans to revive the ailing Dead Sea. Tigo Energy became a finalist  for two R&D grants from the US Department of Energy and a conceptual plan for a Globe Ecological Hub in Modiin was recently proposed. For these stories and more, check below for this week’s 8 Israel-related cleantech headlines.

Solar
1. Tigo Energy finalist in two US gov’t tenders

Electric Car
2. Shai Agassi, Israel’s Homegrown Electric Car Pioneer: On the Road to Oil Independence

Fuel-efficient Cars
3. Firing up his engine between hot and cold

Dead Sea
4. Plans to revive the Dead Sea

5. Global Warming Effects in India Hit Jordan and Israel’s Dead Sea Potash

Inside Israel
6. Globe Ecological Hub Recently Proposed for Israeli City of Modiin

7. Pioneering Israeli environmentalist, former MK Yosef Tamir, dies at 94

8. Your Taxes: Privileged-enterprise tax breaks for renewable-energy projects

Lisa Damast
Lisa Damasthttp://www.israelinnovation20.com/
Lisa Damast is an online marketing consultant by day and blogger of Israel technology by night. Her blog, Israel Innovation 2.0, provides news and analysis of Israeli technology companies in the enterprise software, Web 2.0 and cleantech sectors. Lisa is also a co-organizer of the Jerusalem Business Networking Forum (JBNF). JBNF helps facilitate online and offline networking among business professionals in Jerusalem, including in the cleantech industry. Lisa made aliyah in August 2007 after receiving a degree in Communication Studies from Boston University in May 2007. Lisa can be reached at lisa (at) greenprophet (dot) com.

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