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Obama Needs To Let The Big 3 Crash and Burn!!

I believe he (Obama) needs to display "wisdom" and focus on the big 3. One may have to go down and the rise of a green player to replace the fallen may need to be his biggest move! If I was an advisor to President Obama, I would encourage him to not bailout anyone-else (excluding the middle class) and focus on transitioning from the traditional economic giants to investing in the new green giants! One of my own favorite quotes is:

"I happen to deeply agree with the wisdom of Tom Friedman (that we cannot consume of way out of this mess and "Have you ever been to a revolution where nobody gets hurt?"). The fact is that the current economic conditions will cause a lot of companies to close their doors (websites too), and they will die off altogether due to lack of understanding the competitive (innovative) landscape. Just look at Detroit and the Big 3 for example! Those that will fight to stay alive will need to figure out -- What's Next?

I believe that the New Green Economy will include the Rise of Green Real Estate Markets paired with the continued success of Cleantech, Clean Energy Markets, and large scale shifts toward Clean Transportation, and the Greening of the IT Industries (plus a fourth quarter of record investment!!), which will lead to a boom in "American Made" Green Collar Jobs and the creation of new wealth. The trick is: "who will get it right??" Execution makes all the difference for most of these opportunities and green investors need to pay more attention to the items that management claim they can achieve." - Yeves Perez, Founder of EcoInvestmentClub.com - Nov 2008

See more on talk on Fast Company:
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/glenn-croston/starting-an ...On Alliance for Climate Protection ramps up calls for renewable-energy plan posted 1 year ago 17 Responses

Find Out What's Next For The Green Economy...

I happen to deeply agree with the wisdom of Tom Friedman (that we cannot consume of way out of this mess and "Have you ever been to a revolution where nobody gets hurt?"). The fact is that the current economic conditions will cause a lot of companies to close their doors (websites too), and die off and altogether due to lack of understanding the competitive landscape. Those that will fight to stay alive will need to figure out -- What's Next? And get it right! Execution makes all the difference to some of these opportunities and green investors need to pay more attention to the items that management claim they can achieve. I'm also surprised that the Eco Investment Club wasn't mentioned as a resource.

The Eco Investment Club has hosted several high impact meetings such as: "The Economic State of Green Building" with Guest Speaker Harvey Bernstein, Vice President of Industry Analytics, Alliances and Strategic Initiatives for McGraw-Hill Construction and Hosted by Citi Smith Barney's Bruce Kahn, and the First Annual "Green Leaders Week", which was a week-long buffet of events for investors, who were interested in getting face-to-face time with the Green Business Leaders of Southern California. The events of this highly successful week were designed to give Accredited and Institutional Investors, who were interested in getting a first-hand look inside the minds of Cleantech leaders, the opportunity to witness operations of some of the fastest growing companies by attending a series of "open houses", starting with Envirepel Energy, Inc., a clean energy (BioMass) company in Vista, CA.  

On Nov. 5th, a panel discussion will be held to provide some direction to Eco Investors and the panelists include:

Glenn Croston, Ph.D.  
Author of "75 Green Businesses". Glenn Croston is committed to helping entrepreneurs build and grow profitable businesses that solve environmental challenges. Writing for Fast Company, Entrepreneur, TheStreet.com, Renewable Energy Weekly and other outlets, he highlights opportunities for small business owners and entrepreneurs to build businesses that create a brighter, greener future for us all.

Jan P. Schalkwijk, CFA
Principal and Founder of JPS Global Investments, a San Diego-based investment advisor, focusing on sustainable investing. It is JPS Global's belief that one does not have to sacrifice return potential by adding environmental and social criteria to the investment process. As a long-term investor, JPS Global believes that companies with sustainable business practices will ultimately outperform those that have unsustainable business models. As such, sustainable investing has financial and environmental/societal rewards, which are both paramount to our clients' future.

Oren Jaffe, Sustainability Expert
Co-Founder of EcoTuesday.com, a Sustainable Business Leaders networking forum based in San Francisco, California, and a Principal at BlueMap Inc., an environmental consulting firm that specializes in quantifying sustainability decisions by helping organizations lower their environmental impact while concurrently saving them time and money.  Oren's sustainable business experience includes working for Bureau Veritas (BV) Consumer Products Services, a multi-billion dollar global risk management, health & safety, environmental compliance, and social auditing corporation, where he managed the social compliance division helping Fortune 500 clients more effectively and profitably build global sustainable supply chain programs.  Oren was also a founding member of the corporate sustainability development team at BV.

Dave Iverson, Economist
A Social Scientist, Economist, and Environmental Activist. Dave has been working in forest management and public lands management all his adult life. For the past 29 years, Dave worked for the US Forest Service (retired 11/30/07), dealing with land management and public policy played out at the confluence of complex, adaptive natural systems and complex, adaptive, and politically wicked social systems. Before that he also did a short stint with Weyerhaeuser Corporation. Dave is a founding board member for Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics (FSEEE) and has played a minor role in the genesis of Public Employees For Environmental Responsibility (PEER).

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