Word: focusing
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...that the presence of this immortal French culture means that there also still exist strong Italian, Spanish, Romanian and English cultures. So why do the media refer to African culture but hardly ever to Nigerian culture, distinct from Kenyan or Algerian culture, for instance? Perhaps it's easier to focus on the lowest common denominator of the African experience than on the unique cultural signifiers that every African country possesses as much as does the land of Proust, Monet, Piaf and Truffaut. Tolu Ogunlesi, ABEOKUTA, NIGERIA...
...support for clean tech. The Gore-approved narrative of climate change - as both a threat and an economic opportunity - penetrated the venture-capital community. Adam Grosser, a venture capitalist at the Silicon Valley firm Foundation Capital, struggled to convince his partners that they should expand beyond their traditional IT focus into clean tech. "When I first proposed it, my partners scoffed," he says. But Grosser persisted, and today clean tech accounts for 10% of Foundation's portfolio. "This is not a problem that is going away soon," he says. "This will be a trend like PCs were for the 1980s...
...area where there were large markets that could benefit from innovation." Khosla hasn't held back - in the first nine months of 2007, Khosla Ventures participated in 14 deals worth nearly $70 million. He has spread his bets along a range of clean-tech sectors, with a particular focus on biofuel start-ups such as Range Fuels, which is close to commercializing biofuel out of agricultural residue like wood chips, rather than food crops. Nothing has paid off big for him yet - in fact, prices for corn-based ethanol, which Khosla has also invested in, crashed in 2007, largely...
...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 consumer products...
...Youpee-Roll’s family has a history of involvement in tribal politics, and she certainly isn’t reserved about getting involved in the Fort Peck Reserve. Youpee-Roll plans to pursue a law degree and a master’s in public policy with a focus on federal Native American public policy. This comes as no surprise to her mother. “She always knew that she had to do something to help this place,” she says. Youpee-Roll’s dedication to her Native American culture doesn?...