Green Options

Paige Donner’s Greening Hollywood column can be found on The Huffington Post. Donner writes about all things green that intersect with Style, Fashion, Entertainment and Politics. Find her at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paige-donner

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Last night I attended a panel discussion called GREENtrepreneurs Help Individuals Go Green: Green Tech for the Consumer Market sponsored by MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB)

Venture capitalists have begun funding greentrepreneurs who are inventing green-consumer products that the mass market consumer will purchase. We all know about the green car, the solar panel, and the CFLs. The question is: What will come next? What factors will influence consumers to adopt new products.

Three greentrepreneurs presented their product pitch to a sold out crowd: