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Heather Clancy

Heather Clancy

Heather Clancy is an award-winning business journalist with a passion for green technology and corporate sustainability issues. Her articles have appeared in Entrepreneur, Fortune Small Business, The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. In a past corporate life, Heather was editor of Computer Reseller News, where she was a featured speaker about everything from software as a service to IT security to mobile computing.

Heather started her journalism life as a business writer with United Press International in New York. She holds a B.A. in English literature from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and has a thing for Lewis Carroll.

About GreenTech Pastures

As the global warming debate rages, Heather Clancy chronicles the smart grid, electric vehicles, alternative energy, green IT and other developments shaping the green technology movement.

  • 2011 will bring sunnier outlook for solar technology

    By Heather Clancy | December 29, 2010, 1:42pm PST

    Right about now, I’m wishing for a sunny spring day in New Jersey, where there are 20 inches of snow between me and my perennial flower beds. So, naturally, I’ve been thinking a lot of...

  • 11 green-tech stories I want to write in 2011

    By Heather Clancy | December 29, 2010, 10:13am PST

    I tend to be a Pollyanna-esque sort of journalist, looking for optimism and positive news wherever I can find it. So, my list of green technology “predictions” (if you can really call...

  • Greenest game for the power-conscious: Nintendo Wii

    By Heather Clancy | December 28, 2010, 9:04am PST

    Since it is just about a week before the electronics world’s annual pilgrimage for the Consumer Electronics show, I felt this item was particularly appropriate. I was poking around various...

  • 5 things you're telling me about greentech

    By Heather Clancy | December 23, 2010, 5:00am PST

    Solar may have been my top post for 2010 but green IT issues dominated my top green-tech posts.

  • Could carbon management software sector reach $1B by 2013?

    By Heather Clancy | December 22, 2010, 2:39pm PST

    Wish I had seen this report yesterday, BEFORE I published my item about Epicor, because it would have made that post even stronger. No time like the present, though, and here’s the crux of...

  • DOE researcher suggests agricultural benefits from wind turbines

    By Heather Clancy | December 22, 2010, 6:28am PST

    This one is bound to create some controversy, given all the negative things I have read about living with or near wind turbines: Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames...

  • ERP player extends software into carbon accounting

    By Heather Clancy | December 21, 2010, 10:29am PST

    More evidence that carbon footprint and energy management features are going to morph into traditional enterprise software applications: Epicor Software has added an extension to its enterprise...

  • Survey: Ford top brand among potential electric vehicle buyers

    By Heather Clancy | December 20, 2010, 4:49pm PST

    Ford gets the nod as the top brand among potential electric vehicle buyers, according to a new survey out about electric vehicle and electric vehicle infrastructure brand awareness from research...

  • Up next for Climate Savers: Consumer electronics devices

    By Heather Clancy | December 20, 2010, 7:24am PST

    With a new executive director at the helm, the next challenge for the Climate Savers Computing initiative will be a push into better power management practices for consumer electronics technology....

  • Brightening outlook for built-in solar technology

    By Heather Clancy | December 17, 2010, 7:09am PST

    One of the developments I’ll be watching during 2011 is the extent to which solar technology can break out of its design mold — that of dozens of bulky panels arrayed across a roof,...

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