New Website Focuses on Utah's Clean Tech Industry
Not long ago, a California blogger created a Google map to highlight several new clean-tech startups in the state. The map circulated the twittersphere like wildfire and was used repeatedly to demonstrate California's dominance. Yet any Utahn in the know about clean-tech entrepreneurship would know that Utah also has more than its fair share of emerging green companies.
Despite its national reputation as a traditional-energy dominated state, Utah has an impressive number of green technology innovators. In fact, Utah is has become and international leader in geothermal technologies and carbon management.
But, until now, there was no central place to learn about Utah's thriving clean tech community. Nor was there a place for green innovators in Utah to collaborate, learn from each other, and get information to help their businesses excel.
The utcleantech.org website was created as an important step toward catalyzing Utah's clean tech industry. By providing a central place for information, opinion, and resources about the industry, utcleantech.org hopes to energy the industry and help state leaders catch the vision for the potential economic impact of investing in this area. The site features regular profiles of Utah clean tech businesses, opinion on the latest clean tech policy debates, a directory of Utah clean tech businesses, and a forum for discussion of hot topics.
Utah companies working in the clean tech industry are particularly encouraged to register their business in the Utah clean tech web directory -- listings are free.
The site is also intended to help launch a real industry association for Utah, which can help catalyze Utah's clean tech growth. Utah can, and should, be a national leader in clean tech business. By creating an industry association, Utah could become one of only a handful of states to get the jump on what will certainly become the next big industry segment. Colorado recently launched its own clean tech industry association to become only the 4th state with such an industry group.
The utcleantech.org website is the brain child of external affairs expert and wind power aficionado Josh Ewing. The effort to catalyze the clean tech sector is also being supported by the USTAR initiative.
