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...names from the mainstream business world are migrating into the clean-tech sector - because they want to help the planet and their bankbook. Lois Quam, a pioneering health-care executive, who was last year named one of Fortune's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business, joined the Minneapolis-based investment bank Piper Jaffray to guide its rapidly growing alternative-energy portfolio. "You see so many good companies and entrepreneurs entering this space," says Quam. "This is the biggest business opportunity for this country...
Prophets of profits That's a message much of the rest of the world has already absorbed. Though the U.S. is easily the biggest player in green venture capital, Europe may be ahead on clean tech itself, thanks largely to the kind of generous government subsidies that have yet to be enacted in Washington. The enormous capital expenditure required to compete in the energy market makes government support all the more important. Many of the world's top solar and wind companies - like Germany's Q-Cells and Spain's Iberdrola - are based in the E.U., and with the region...
...both Europe and the U.S. may be less important than the nation that will soon be the world's top CO2 emitter: China. Cleaning up China is both the biggest challenge to green tech and its biggest opportunity, and venture capitalists are staking their claim, with their investments in green companies in China rising by 147% to $420 million between 2005 and 2006. Much of that money is being channeled into meeting China's ravenous energy needs - especially solar, which already has a homegrown success story in billionaire Shi Zhengrong, founder of Suntech Power. Water conservation and filtering...
Until recently, this was a specialized niche. But now it "has gone from being the exclusive domain of some clean-tech funds to being a demand of major investors," says Nick Robins, head of the HSBC Climate Change Centre of Excellence. Indeed, buyers today have their pick of hedge funds that focus on rapid-fire trading to corporate pension funds that are required to put some portion of their money in socially responsible investments. Meanwhile, a slew of new mutual funds is selling individual investors on the heady growth prospects of companies in areas like cleaner energy or environmentally friendly...
...grown” means at least a full year longer in Spain than it does in the U.S. During the bullfight itself, which usually lasts about 15 minutes, the bull is lanced, barbed, and eventually stabbed between the shoulder blades. Usually the kills are quick and clean. The first one that I saw was not; the bull vomited blood for a good five minutes before dying. Once dead, the bull is slaughtered and eaten...