Green Investing

Interesting post from the folks at Alternative Energy Stocks.

In the past 24 hours, there have been a flurry of opinions coming out on what a commanding Obama victory would mean for people’s portfolios. Alt energy investors certainly have reasons to be cautiously optimistic.

See the full post @ Alternative Energy Stocks

Related, there’s a new post on Obama and Renewable Energy at Green Chip Stocks.

Read the full article here.

In brief:

• Despite the credit crunch, cleantech is still embraced by many investors
• Both candidates support cleantech
• Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are into green energy (Algea and Wind turbines respectively)
• Clean energy is a hedge against further carbon emission limits/regulation

Interesting post from the folks at Alternative Energy Stocks in light of the news that the bailout passed the house this afternoon.

As most of you will probably know by now, the US Senate voted tonight to pass the 0 billion bailout package for the financial sector. As part of the this new version of the bill full of so-called “sweeteners”, or measures meant entice certain individuals to vote in favor, lawmakers included a one-year extension of the Production Tax Credit for wind and an eight-year extension of the Investment Tax Credit for solar.

There is clearly some good stuff here for renewables.  View the full text of the bill here.

See the full post @ Alternative Energy Stocks

Interesting post from the folks at Alternative Energy Stocks.

The International Center for Appropriate and
Sustainable Technology (iCAST) helps communities use local resources to
solve their own problems.  I’ve been a fan of iCAST’s approach of teaching
people how to fish (or, in this case, how to apply sustainable technologies)
rather than giving away fish since I first encountered them at a conference in
2006.  Last week, they took advantage of some of their own local resources
(namely the fact that the DNC was in Denver) to organize a luncheon with a panel
of nationally recognized speakers, any one of whom would have been enough to
draw a crowd alone, and asked them to speak about how coping with Climate Change
will impact the poor.

See the full post @ Alternative Energy Stocks

Interesting post from the folks at Alternative Energy Stocks.

At a time when many people see clouds on the horizon for US wind, one Canadian jurisdiction is moving full-swing ahead with a procurement for renewable power. British Columbia (BC), Canada’s westernmost province, announced in June the launch of its Clean Power Call, an initiative aimed at sourcing 5,000 GWh of clean power.

See the full post @ Alternative Energy Stocks