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Protesters invade the Aviation Emissions Trading Summit 2007

The Essence of Ecopreneurship

In this paper, written by Michael Schaper of the Curtin University of Technology, Australia, the role that entrepreneurs can play in the move to a more sustainable economic and commercial system is examined.

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Clean-Energy Trends 2008

Amid a challenging economic outlook—plummeting housing prices, rising foreclosure rates, record-high oil prices, sinking consumer confidence, looming recession—2007 was another banner year for clean energy, with no signs of a slowdown in 2008. Solar, wind, biofuels, geothermal, energy intelligence, hybrid- and all-electric vehicles, advanced batteries, green buildings, and other clean-energy-related technologies and markets provided bright spots in an otherwise sluggish economy.

Please click here to download the full report in PDF format from CleanEdge.

Wall Street Green Trading Summit 2008

The 7th Annual Wall Street Green Trading Summit is the seminal New York City environmental financial market event created by Peter C. Fusaro. Working with Hedge Connection for the third year, this event does it all in 2 days covering carbon emissions trading and finance, renewable energy markets, cleantech VC, green hedge funds and energy efficiency financial markets.

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Shell and Virent Collaborate to Develop Bio-Based Gasoline

Shell and Virent Energy Systems, Inc., (Virent) of Madison, Wisconsin have announced a joint research and development effort to convert plant sugars directly into gasoline and gasoline blend components, rather than ethanol.

The collaboration could herald the availability of new biofuels that can be used at high blend rates in standard gasoline engines. This could potentially eliminate the need for specialized infrastructure, new engine designs and blending equipment. More >