According to BusinessWeek, the business of environmental technology trumps the Internet in interest and excitement. This was evident at last week’s Web 2.0 Summit, when green startups—even those that had little to do with the Web—took over large parts of the show. John Doerr, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, declared green technology to be “the growing thing in Silicon Valley” and said kick-starting energy research will be President-elect Barack Obama’s most important task. Read more.