Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Cap-and-Trade Quote of the Day

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...The economic theory of regulation asks us to consider the political arena as a marketplace where favors are bought and sold. Interest gro...

Anxiety over environment brings weird crimes and a new industry

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...Psychologists say eco-terrorism might be an extreme display of “eco-anxiety,” the new buzz word in mental health: An increasing number of...

Water war heats up

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Central Nevada farmers like Roderick McKenzie fear booming Las Vegas is going to suck them dry. They're fighting a plan to pump billions...

China posts 11.9 percent growth rate

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...The latest quarterly figure showed the fastest expansion since the last quarter of 1995, when the economy grew by 12.5 percent. ...Anothe...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

First Solar (FSLR) Files to Sell 9,650,000 Shares including 5,650,000 From Selling Shareholders

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Officers and Directors selling 950,000 shares. Goldman Sachs lightening up by a mil. Here is the S-1 preliminary prospectus .

First Solar CEO sells 250,000 shares of stock

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The chief executive officer of First Solar Inc. has sold 250,000 shares of common stock under a prearranged trading plan, according to a new...

Australian Dollar Blown Up by Greenhouse Gas

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A very insightful commentary by Terry McCrann writing for The Australian: ...The somewhat more complex question is why demand for the Aussie...

Iowa's near record corn crop growing fast, rain needed

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It might be time for ethanol stockholders to watch the weather in Iowa. Monday's U.S. Department of Agriculture Crops and Weather Report...

Coal stocks and the Citigroup Downgrade

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First, if you didn't see it, C's John Hill did an across-the-board downgrade of the coal stocks. Here's MarketWatch's report...

Green Business Opportunity

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As I sifted through the link-vault last night, I had an "Ah-ha" (and ah-choo) moment while reading this headline: " Two year...

Pacific Hydro to sell carbon credits from Chile plant

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...Pacific Hydro, which is owned by the pension funds manager Industry Funds Management, and a partner registered the 155-megawatt La Higuer...

Fast Cars, Faster Keyboard

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Ross Gelbspan at Desmogblog gets the line of the day award: Talking about climate change at a Formula One race might at first glance seem l...

Sasol eyes "significant income" from carbon credits

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Sasol, the world's biggest maker of fuel from coal, will earn "significant income" by selling carbon credits by converting a g...

GE and the Media

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They own it. Now move along, there's no story here. Or maybe there is. From Variety : NBC Universal going green Enviro themes will be sc...

Pollution Credits Stoke Trader Hiring Wave at Banks

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This is no longer news, June 28 dateline, but it has some interesting numbers. ..."Investment today could earn a 200 percent to 300 per...

California's attack of the jumbo squid

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Ferocious, pack-feeding jumbo squid have invaded waters off California's central coast and are devouring local fish populations. Researc...

Biofuel Impacts on Weather

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All hot and sweaty this summer? It could be the corn. Climatologists are building evidence that crops, particularly corn, are driving up de...
Monday, July 23, 2007

An Email from the President of Planktos

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On 7/23/07, russ george wrote: Your statement that Planktos has hired and paid for the information being promoted by PennyStockHunt...

Playing Climate Change Poker, Magical Thinking and Why Shrinks make Better Money Managers than Quants

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The story that goes with the above headline, below. First a segue: Jerry Yang, a 39-year-old psychologist who uses his professional trainin...

Galapagos Update

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High cost of female choice in a Lekking Lizard Here we report that females can incur high energetic costs as a result of discriminating amo...