What more needs to be said.
Please read.
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/is_the_end_in_sight_for_the_worlds_coral_reefs_/2347/
As Oprah graces our shores with her presence, it is worth considering what on earth would entice anyone to visit Australia and Queensland once the Barrier Reef is dead.

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There has been much debate over the last 30 years about the fate of the global auto industry. The headlines often scream of the imminent death of an industry that transports hundreds of millions of people daily.
However, unlike a Movie, where plot points drive you to a conclusion that satisfies our expectations; Life, markets and indeed evolution, simply never delivers an ending as [...]

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Climate Change is a massive economic opportunity. While conservatives will rail against the need to recognise and address the challenges of climate change, innovators will recognise the $300b annual cost as one of the great opportunities of our lifetime.

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We would like to give you a brief update on some breaking news from our client Cetus Energy.
We have been working closely with the founding team at Cetus for the past 15 months assisting them with both their corporate and commercialisation strategies. Pleasingly, over that time, the business has made some giant leaps forward. [...]

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When I am really sick, I see a Doctor. Why? Because they are trained to assess the symptoms/data/evidence I present with. In essence I trust that they know what they are doing.
This trust is based on my understanding that through a unique and powerful combination of training, education and experience they are able to assess the data and from [...]

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Our recent blog on the move towards a Green Bank has been explored further by our colleagues at Mckinsey in a recent article in the Mckinsey Quarterly.
The underlying hypothesis that we put forward was that climate change will be a massive wealth creation event, not a wealth destruction event. This argument is now starting to [...]

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One of the fundamental challenges facing any new energing technology is funding. It is the Rubicon for any startup business.
With any emergent technology, acceptance by investors follows your classic product lifecycle. Early adoptors, mainstream and laggards. The Cleantech industry finds itself in the early adopter (acceptor) stage just when th world needs it to be [...]

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Social innovation is seen as a wonderful thing. But we are starting to see things that make us believe providing assistance to struggling communities may provide new competitive advantage for organisations struggling to innovate.

Coping with oil prices here is bad enough, but in Tanzania it is crippling. In a country where people struggle to maintain [...]

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There is a lot of gloom about at the moment. Runs on banks in the US, property prices are falling in major markets, the threat of military action in the middle east, food shortages and the ever rising price of oil. And as backdrop to all of this is the increasing threat of Climate change.
As [...]

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