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top tips

November 25th 2008 04:20

I think we have been here before but it never hurts. Here are some top tips on how to save money and reduce your carbon footprint at the same time. i have mentioned before reducing consumption and a recession is actually the best thing for global warming (not that I wanted the recession part to happen trust me I am hurting just as much as the next person) but we may as well make the most of it and change our long term behaviour for the better.

Slightly hypocritically these tips are from the Commonwealth bank but I like them because they don't require spending money (much) here's hoping the banks practice what they preach.

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My favourite is the Vintage shopping tip and reducing your paper consumption, especially at work, think twice before printing.....

Cheers

Louie

picture courtesy of the ecopreservationsociety

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the obama effect

November 24th 2008 03:09

The Obama effect: why his win is a victory for ”clean-chip” companies

Climate-friendly goods and services, once deemed luxuries, are set to become the most economic options for consumers in a world increasingly focused on renewable energy.

Take for example, electric cars. Once deemed a luxury item, sales of these cars are set to outpace uptake of mobile phone technology. As prices naturally come down, the cleaner transport alternative will become the cheaper one for consumers.

The election of Barack Obama as the United State’s 44th President will drive this more concerted shift to climate change. His government has committed to using the transition to a low-carbon economy as a cornerstone of his country’s economic recovery plan.

Companies working to provide energy efficient services, renewable energy solutions and energy technology will directly benefit from the range of climate-change and alternative-energy policies the Obama campaign promised in the lead up to last Tuesday’s election.

These policies, which include making the US a leader on climate change and creating jobs in the clean energy field, will underpin growth in the sector.

And companies which work in that finite investment universe within the sector can be easily identified. arkx Investment Management has indentified seven major global themes and 34 companies that will benefit from the transition to a low carbon economy. The entire investment universe in that space includes about 550 stocks with a market capitalisation of $500 billion.

With market volatility close to all time highs, investors are seeking safe havens. arkx believes climate change and the subsequent transition to a low carbon economy will be the source of identifiable investment outperformance for many years to come.

"The current economic downturn presents governments with an historic opportunity to climate proof their economies as they upgrade infrastructure as a core response to the economic downturn," writes Mark Fulton, global head of climate change investment research for Deutsche Asset Management.

The Obama victory may provide the turning point for awareness on this issue. For years now America has been the laggard on the global transition to a low carbon economy. Now it is on board, we believe this transition will take place far more quickly than anyone expects.

Very soon it will make no sense to buy polluting goods, they will be more expensive. Likewise it will make no sense to invest in high polluting companies as the price of polluting becomes a larger burden on balance sheets, forcing behavioural change. It will soon be perceived as a breach of fiduciary duty not to be aware of the carbon footprint of your investment portfolio or make investment decisions without considering the current transition to a low carbon economy.

The world is in the process of an economic revolution that will be accelerated by the global financial meltdown as governments turn to investment in alternative energy and energy efficiency solutions to help navigate their economies out of turmoil. Obama is just one example of this global theme: 69 countries have mandated renewable energy targets. The US takes that number to 70.

So what stocks should you be buying? Here are some companies that we at arkx believe will be direct winners from the transition to a low carbon economy.

1) BYD , Johnson controls and Saft – producers of batteries and a manufacture of parts for electric cars at various points in the manufacturing chain.
2) Sunpower – US base Solar power supplier.
3) Energy Conversion devices and Carmannah Holdings – Provide energy efficiency solutions to U.S companies.

Hollywood has made the butterfly effect a cliché. The butterfly effect is part of chaos theory, and pertains that a butterfly flapping its wings in one part of the world could dramatically affect events in another seemingly unrelated part of the world, such as preventing or causing a tornado. We at arkx investment management believe the Obama effect in the low carbon space will have similar, positive reverberations throughout our investment universe.

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So you think it is just Cocaine

November 19th 2008 05:31

All you are doing is breaking the law, damaging yourself and no-one else.

Well think again and spread the word to make people think twice before they dabble in the odd gram of Cocaine. Every gram of Cocaine destroys 4 square meters of Jungle, hurts countless animals and affects the lives of untold numbers of indiginous people according to this disturbing Guardian Article CLICK HERE

If you don't like words click on the picture link on the right hand side, see the damage done to forests, indigenous people and the damage caused by land mines around illegal plantations!!!!!

I am sure a lot of non-addicted recreational users might think twice before using it if they realized the damage to the environment, ill let Katyzzz discuss the impacts on the brain.

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Louie

photo from the guardian article

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A new Chapter

November 18th 2008 23:59

Obama has declared a new chapter on climate change in America.

Let's all breathe a sigh of relief

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the world on fire

November 17th 2008 04:12

I find this astounding, 12% of Chinese Coal based emissions are due to coal fires. There are coal fires burning all over the world causing almost unquantifiable damage to the environment as well eating up valuable reserves.

It begs the question, why don't we fight these fires but I guess it is pretty hard to fight a fire below the earth. The oldest coal fire on earth is actually in Australia and has been burning for over 2,000 years!!!!! How I did not know this is a huge surprise to me

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everything you needed to know about

November 7th 2008 04:23

Alternative energy with lots of pretty pictures. Thanks to National Geographic. Learning about alternative energy doesn't get much better and more fun than this. We all need to be understanding the alternatives and their pros and cons given the world is transitioning away from traditional energy sources such as Coal and Oil. Oh yeah and we may run out of both.

Hope you enjoy

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does anyone know what tree this is?

November 4th 2008 02:27

I was walking to work this morning as I always do, I love this time of year because the Jacaranda are so so beautiful. While I was gazing at my favourite Jacaranda in Victoria Park day dreaming I looked to my right and saw this amazing bright red tree, it is truly beautiful and I honestly can't beleive I have never noticed it before. I was obviously blinded by my love of Jaranda.

I was wondering if any Orblers out there know what the tree is called

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china on our page

November 1st 2008 00:55

One of the main obstacles to reaching a new Global agreement on Climate Change is China and India's willingness to make concessions also, both countries have expressed an unwillingness to do this as they want the growth of their economies to take priority. Fair enough.

China has released a White Paper on Climate Change and you will be encouraged to know they are on the right page. They recognise that they are pretty vulnerable to its effects are hence the need to curb emissions. They also see the opportunity that exsts being a world leader in the Energy Efficiency and Adaptation areas

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