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Climate Red - October 2008

the power of the people

October 29th 2008 01:12
The Uk is about to have the toughest Climate Change legislation in the world, one of the engineers of this legislation believes there is one element missing and I agree.

Tapping the power of the people. Yes of course big business needs to change their ways and pay for their pollution but we can forget that collectively we can all do a lot on the community level, whether it is participating in environmental events like National Tree Day or Earth Hour to installing solar hot water at home or simply consuming less. We as individuals also have a lot to contribute. Apologies if I state the obvious.


Here is a link to the article, I could be sarcastic here and say its like the guy has just realised that the plebby masses exist for the first time or something, he is a Lord after all. Anyhow, however he got there his message is good with me.

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i agree

October 28th 2008 02:50
Here is an article stating that when rationality returns to the market investors are going to demand more than just returns from their investments but also demand for their money to be working towards the future and even for good.

Here is a link to an article written by a guy called Mark Fulton who I have in fact worked with in the past talking about how investors will start to look into the Climate Change Investment space as a relatively recession proof place to park money. As I have stated before energy efficiency is my big call for companies that should fare better than most in tough times, with governments around the world subsidising households and businesses to spend money in this space with the bonus being a lower power bill. No brainer.

CLICK HERE

Many thanks to CNN and Mark for saving me writing a whole post dedicated to this again, i was feeling very alone.

Tough times out there.

Cheers

Louie

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By now you will probably have all seen the article in the New York Times from the weekend CLICK HERE IF YOU HAVEN'T where Warren Buffet says its time to buy US Equities so via default he is recommending to buy stocks globally. Ths will no doubt be another historical Warren Buffet moment of which there are many.

Given recent market performance what can he see that we don't. Welll the answer is simple, Warren Buffet is a value investor. This means he evaluates and buys companies on valuation, not on market sentiment. A large part of the recent fall in equities has been for want of a better phrase, throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

The finance world has known there has been an economic slowdown coming for a long time now, markets are now reacting because the man in the street has worked it out, Warren Buffet being a professional investor can now draw the line in the sand and say, in quality, well managed companies the recession has been well and truly been priced in, so it is time to invest n the companies that will be well placed when things pick p again because when things are good again you won't be able to buy them at current prices.
Another way of putting is this, Warren Buffet thinks long term, equity markets are currently reacting to short term news headlines creating opportunity for those who think ahead.

I wrote a post a week or so ago saying it was time for rationality to come back into the market and listed my top picks. This shake up should have helped us all to wake up to ourselves that our excessive financial system not only damages the environment but damages all of us. Capital is a powerful tool to leverage corporate behavour, if you invest your money in companies that also help the environment then that is one of the most efficient ways to actually help the cause.

Here is a link to my list of Green Investents from around the world CLICK HERE. Warren Buffet bought into BYD Corp (1211 HK)

cheers

Louie

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investing in the future

October 10th 2008 00:11
Here are my 30 or so , Green, clean and efficiency global stock picks. The codes are www.yahoo.com/finance codes if you want to look into these stocks yourself. The last name on the list is the way to play the NEX index which is a proxy for clean Investing, i will write more about the NEX another time.

This list gives exposure to Wind, Solar, Biomass, hydro and other renewable energy generation world wide as well as exposure to best in class energy efficiency names. It is worth noting BYD is one of the few stocks Warren Buffet has been buying in this current sell-off


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it is time for rationality

October 8th 2008 23:00
OK so i've left this space to market newbie for a while now but it is time to draw a line in the sand. Today we saw some very decisive co-ordinated global Government intervention in these markets, these measures will help free up capital, it is time to look through market moves and see the opportunities.

Mkt Newbie often talks about fear and greed, these are arguably the two major driving forces of markets to extremes. The Credit Crisis was without a doubt caused by greed and now recent market moves are being exaggerated and perpetuated by fear. The same greedy people who couldn't buy enough at the top and leveraged themselves to the hilt are now panic selling


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new google tool

October 8th 2008 00:11
This is cool, this new Google tool designed with conservationists and National Geographic lets people view endangered marine areas at the click of a mouse.
CLINK HERE FOR LINK TO STORY

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