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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Below is an article from Business Spectator which I have linked to and also taken the liberty of reprinting in full because I believe it is extraordinarily important and reflective of both the opportunity climate change presents business and also indicative of why the gold rush 2.0 is well underway.
Google’s search for smart power
February 24, 2010
Giles Parkinson
Most people expect there to be a [...]

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A gold rush has started. One of the biggest, if not the biggest race in human history.
We are talking about a mad grab for the fortunes that will define the next 100 or possibly 300 years. This is dynastic in implication, geopolitical in nature and paradigm shifting in impact. Individuals and companies will make fortunes that will make the money made by the [...]

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I attended a fascinating lunch today on what the climate change world will look like post Copenhagen.
The top line summary was that while it would be nice to think a solution will be politically led, the reality is that it simply won’t be. It will be up to local communities, business and individuals to drive [...]

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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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Like Wow, Wipeout!

The classic Australian rock group Hoodoo Guru’s song from the mid 80’s pretty much captures the nature of the current financial crisis. As a result of this mayhem there is now little doubt that we are about to enter a major down turn. How far down, no one really knows. But what [...]

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There has been a lot of press about the commodity boom and how it’s the saving grace for the Australian economy. And for the vast majority of people out there, the rising prices of ‘commodities’ can often seem a nebulous and intangible issue - an issue that grabs a few seconds in the business section [...]

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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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