The CCTO Release the list of 2007 finalists. I am happy to say that our team, Euclid Street Technologies, is a 2007 finalist in the Smart Power category. A lot of green blogs picked up the news such as Cleanenergy.org, Green Wombat, earth2tech, and Earth 911.

Over the past couple week, Nate and I have been doing more planning for the new company. We still haven’t come up with a name, but we do have office space now. Since Nate was a graduate student at UC Berkeley, he was able to get a temporary space in the Berkeley Entrepreneur Laboratory. It is a non-profit lab providing this free service to Berkeley graduates. It currently houses 5 or 6 companies. We have a small cube with two desks (see above picture). It’s not much, but you can’t beat the price! I commute to Berkeley a couple times a week by driving to the Fremont BART station, riding BART to downtown Berkeley, and walking up tot the office. It’s about a 1.5 hour commute in total, but I’m able to read or get some work done while on the BART.

Today was the CCTO’s Green Building Symposium, sponsored and hosted by Google. Nate and I met at a Starbuck’s near the Google campus a few hours early to get some work done. We spent a few hours trying to come up with a company name to no avail. We tried all kinds of names using various words and various languages, but it’s very difficult to come up with something that sounds good and has a .com domain available. We eventually gave up for the day and headed over to Google.

First of all, I was a little disappointed with the facilities a used at Google. We were not in the main building as originally planned, and the room we did get was neither an auditorium nor big enough to accommodate everyone. The poster board sessions were crammed into small conference rooms along the edges of the main area. The presentation area was just a large section of office with rows of chairs instead of cubes. There weren’t nearly enough chairs for everyone. That aside, the panel was pretty decent. It included a Stanford professor, an architect, a venture capitalist and a VP of a concrete supplier. It was interesting to see how these various people viewed the future of the green building industry. One point they all seemed to agree on was that this market has a lot of potential. As our business relates to residential heating and cooling, this should bode well for us.