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Lucid Design Group wins California Clean Tech Open
October 29, 2007
San Francisco, CA - The California Clean Tech Open (CCTO) announced the winners of its second annual clean technology business plan competition to a standing room-only gathering at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Among the grand prize winners was Lucid Design Group.
Six companies in six categories (Air, Water & Waste, Energy Efficiency, Green Building, Renewables, Smart Power and Transportation) each won $100,000 in cash and business services. Lucid secured the Smart Power Award sponsored by AMD for their Building Dashboard® real-time resource use feedback system.
The CCTO event, designed to speed clean technologies from lab to market, highlights the growing interest in the clean tech space and its essential role in finding smart solutions to the effects of climate change. "I think of you as environmental heroes," said Noah Horowitz, NRDC senior scientist. "You are our pipeline to a more sustainable world."
The California Clean Tech Open is an independent effort by entrepreneurs, researchers, environmentalists, investors and others to create economic growth and environmental sustainability by sparking a clean technology cluster in California.
Read more at the California Clean Tech Open online »
Read the press release at Forbes.com »
About Lucid
Founded in 2004, Lucid Design Group, Inc. ("Lucid") is a privately held cleantech software company and a pioneer in providing real-time information feedback to teach, inspire behavior change and save energy and water resources in buildings. Over the past seven years, Lucid's team has endeavored to make resource use visible, accessible and engaging so that building occupants have the data visualization and communication tools to manage and reduce their consumption.
Today, tens of thousands of people live and work in schools, companies, community and commercial buildings and homes enhanced by Lucid's web-based Building Dashboard® technology. Now in its fourth generation, the intuitive Building Dashboard® user interface allows occupants to connect personal electricity, water and natural gas consumption with the actions and events that take place within buildings.
