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	Environment Management E-Zine February 2010

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Efficiency “sweet spot” for investors
Energy efficiency appears to have married rich in partnering with smart grid. Yet another report shows that together they have formed what has become today’s most appealing clean tech sector for venture capital. Ernst & Young, using data from Dow Jones VentureSource, recently reported that financing rounds grew 11% in 2009 for energy efficiency, this as deals for the clean tech sector as a whole dropped by 16%. The findings echo recent conclusions by Peachtree Green Advisors that found money ...

Smarter grids, appliances, and consumers
More and more utilities are beginning to realize that building large power plants just to handle peak daily and seasonal demand is a very costly way of managing an electricity system. Existing electricity grids are typically a patchwork of local grids that are simultaneously inefficient, wasteful, and dysfunctional in that they often are unable, for example, to move electricity surpluses to areas of shortages. The U.S. electricity grid today resembles the roads and highways of the mid-twentieth ...

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War of words waged over Big Apple’s e-waste law
A legal battle over an e-waste law enacted in New York City could have far-reaching implications throughout the United States and create a “chilling effect” ...
Frequently Asked Questions About Eco-Friendly Light Bulbs
The era when buying a light bulb was as simple as buying a carton of milk is drawing to a close. Beginning on January 1, 2012, general purpose light bulbs ...
Hot sectors for energy efficiency
It’s clear that the energy efficiency industry is undergoing an unprecedented boom, spurred by state and federal support and movement toward a smarter ...
Global nuclear crisis
We are living in a world rife with many types of crises. The most prominent and urgent crisis involves the Earth's ecology. Environmental crises involving ...
The selling of sustainability
Consider how much the world has changed over the last century and a half — the time since the Industrial Revolution. Some may think of advances in manufacturing, ...
Legal lookout: meet the GHG rule
EPA signs final rule requiring greenhouse gas emissions reporting. On Oct. 30, 2009, EPA issued a final rule that requires reporting of greenhouse gas ...
Why corporate venture capital funds fail – evidence from the European energy industry
Corporate venture capital (CVC) is an important concept for large firms to manage innovation. CVC has been pioneered by major companies in the information ...
Firms` dynamics and the shadow economy in the wood industry in Slovenia
This paper analyses the impact of the dynamics in large enterprises in the wood industry on the dynamics of small enterprises and the shadow economy in ...

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