Earth2Tech Week In Review

We’re soaking up some of the sun over at the Treasure Island music festival this weekend. We’ll let you know if the event’s got any of those Live Earth-style green elements. Wherever you’re at, check out some of our goodies from last week:

• Who’s the greenest mayor of them all? Austin mayor Will Wynn is so eco he publishes his electricity bill in the paper to show how a little energy management can produce results. We salute you.
• Solar company SunPower’s CFO Manny Hernandez, says solar IPOs this year are a no go. . . unless you’re into thin film.
• Three electric car experts weigh in on the smart charging of plug-in vehicles, and why or why not that’s important.
• The Chairman of solar thermal startup Ausra, David Mills, says the solar thermal industry needs loan guarantees if it will ever hope to replace coal.
• AMD’s quad-core processor “Barcelona” chip has a slight energy advantage over Intel’s 2.3 GHz Xeon processor. Intel, now it’s your move.