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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). Renewable energy projects are frequently financed with project rather than corporate finance. by Bill Cooke.

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Stanford launches major new natural gas research initiative

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The Natural Gas Initiative has begun funding early stage, exploratory research, following a “seed grant” model used by Stanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy, one of NGI’s hosting organizations. Zoback, Ritts and Schuller are in the process of building out NGI’s corporate affiliates program. Previously the Robert R.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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Moreover, developers must show that the project would make no economic sense without CDM funds and that documentation exists to demonstrate that these factors were considered by the company’s board of directors in their decision to pursue CDM financing. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2007: Mitigation.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each. Leap Photovoltaics Inc.

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

He wasn’t a finance guy, thinking “I’m going to make money.” It’s expensive and my clients don’t finance. Because for one, financing isn’t available anymore and two, early adopters are a different crowd. You pay your corporate taxes on-line. Granted, they’re all known as known as much sunnier places than California.

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

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News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Andy Grove on battery power To wean itself from imported oil, the U.S. In addition, climate change demands that we harness new, renewable sources of energy. And they exist.

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A Well Earned, Guilt Free #YearOfJoe

Creative Greenius

I also kept working for major corporate clients as a writer, creative director, brand strategist and subject matter expert. Having seen “Inconvenient Truth” the year before I was driven to work on climate change and related environmental issues. I knew that even with The Parks Company, I needed to give more back.