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September 2007 Archives

Hybrid Growth Leaves Repair Industry Wide Open - 2007-09-28
"There's a critical mass of hybrids in the Bay Area, enough to support a shop like this," Coquillette said. With over 255,000 hybrids on the road, and 21,000 of them in the Bay area, she's certainly onto something big, and things are really starting to take off for Coquillette, who at 29 seems an unlikely candidate for such a business.

Solar Power Conference - 2007-09-25
Meeting the energy demands of a growing world in a way that secures a safe and clean future is turning out to be pretty big for investors, as evidenced at the recent Solar Power Conference.

The Carbon Market - 2007-09-20
Besides adding words like manbag (a male handbag), yummy mummy (an attractive mother), garburator (a garbage disposal), and removing over 16,000 hyphens from words like fig-leaf and leap-frog, the dictionary also added some words that can serve as a barometer for how the world has changed in the last five years.

Investing in Water - 2007-09-13
In past issues I've talked about various ways to take advantage of a looming water shortage. I've talked about everything from desalination to meter manufacturers. And although there are definitely ways to profit from all the opportunities I've talked about, the market has been extremely favorable to purification technologies of late.

Why We Love $80 Oil - 2007-09-12
So oil finally hit a record $80 today after the government reported a surprisingly large drop in crude oil inventories and accompanying declines in gasoline supplies and refinery activity. Kind of makes OPEC's recent decision to boost production by 500,000 barrels nothing short of laughable.

Renewable Energy Stocks - 2007-09-06
Amid waning fuel prices and mortgage-induced market turbulence, it seems the world had forgotten about one of its most pressing issues, an impending energy crisis.