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No Longer Just Growth: Investing in Renewable Energies for Yield
[In this post, Green Alpha Senior Vice President Robert Muir discusses the opportunities and risks of investing in renewable energy yieldco's. - GJ]Given the vigorous investor quest for yield as the...
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No Longer Just Growth: Investing in Renewable Energies for Yield
[In this post, Green Alpha Senior Vice President Robert Muir discusses the opportunities and risks of investing in renewable energy yieldco's. - GJ]Given the vigorous investor quest for yield as the...
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50 Shades of Green: GMOs and Hain Celestial
As I've written before, "human economies are still so far from real sustainability that even a highly idealized portfolio of our most sustainable enterprises necessarily falls short. Ultimately, the...
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50 Shades of Green: GMOs and Hain Celestial
As I've written before, "human economies are still so far from real sustainability that even a highly idealized portfolio of our most sustainable enterprises necessarily falls short. Ultimately, the...
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The Macroeconomic Realities of Fossil Fuels–Free Investing
To attempt an investment strategy that legitimately excludes securities of fossil fuel companies, it's necessary to reevaluate traditional investment management practices, and then to innovate ways in...
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Cheap Oil and the Next Economy
Next economics posits that for the global economy and earth's tolerances/carrying capacities to run in a mutually tolerable equilibrium, we must continue to make rapid advances in economic efficiencies...
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Tech Energy and Commodity Energy: Different Worlds
Solar photovoltaic (PV) as a means of deriving energy is fundamentally different from fossil fuel-based commodities (oil, coal, and gas). Consider: A solar PV panel can be thought of as nothing more...
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Annual Client Letter
Annual Client Letter – January 2015Dear Green Alpha investors, clients, and friends:We hope your new year is off to a good start! In addition to our thoughts for 2015, we want to reflect on 2014 and...
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Public Remarks to the University of Colorado Board of Regents
Provided to Regents in both verbal and written form at the Board’s meeting of April 16, 2015University of Colorado1800 Grant Street, Suite 800Denver, CO 80203 Board of Regents:Kyle Hybl, ChairmanIrene...
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Next Economy Gains and a Note on Divestment: Green Alpha’s Q1 2015 Commentary
Green Alpha was able to navigate a choppy Q1 2015 with quarterly returns of 5.47% for our mutual fund, NEXTX, 3.51% for our Green Alpha Next Economy Index, and 8.81% for our Sierra Club Green Alpha...
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Clean Coal via CCS Is Still a Terrible Investment
Back in February of 2011, we described why we Don't Buy the Myth of "Clean Coal." Our reasons were clear:The engineering involved in separating and capturing just the CO2 and noxious portions of a...
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The Pope and the Climates of Justice
by Jake Raden, Green Alpha ® Advisors, LLCPope Francis’s encyclical on global warming and environmental degradation, Laudato Si, identifies our disruptive effects on our climate as social justice and...
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Energy: From Commodity to Technology and How It Changes Everything
We now live in a global economy with two fundamentally different types of energy: commodity-based in the form of fossil fuels and uranium, and technology-based, represented primarily by solar and wind....
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A Note on the Markets
To our clients, partners and friends:Hi, everyone. Obviously it’s been a tough recent time in the markets. The Green Alpha portfolios have not been immune, and we’ve seen significant pullbacks,...
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Why Green Alpha Never Invested in Volkswagen
In the wake of the Volkswagen emissions scandal, it’s not only consumers of their green diesel cars that have cause to be upset. A lot of investors are feeling misled and taken advantage of by the...
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Stock Investing in the Anthropocene
Jack Bogle is flat wrong. I mean, within his worldview and that of Modern Portfolio Theory, he’s right, but in the Anthropocene, he’s wrong. Bogle, founder and retired CEO of the Vanguard Group, is...
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Green Alpha Advisors' Annual Client Letter
January 13, 2016Boulder, ColoradoDear Green Alpha investors, clients and friends:Wow. 2015 was an interesting year, and 2016 is shaping up to be another. Economic, policy, political, and regulatory...
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What the L.A. Methane Leak Tells Us About Investing
Sempra Energy’s leaking gas field in Porter Ranch, CA, near Los Angeles, has been making national headlines recently, as it now enters its third month of being the largest methane leak in U.S. history....
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50 Shades of Green: GMOs and Hain Celestial
As I've written before, "human economies are still so far from real sustainability that even a highly idealized portfolio of our most sustainable enterprises necessarily falls short. Ultimately, the...
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7 Questions With Michael Brune, Executive Director, Sierra Club
[Today’s post is a conversation between Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune and Green Alpha COO Betsy Moszeter. Their chat took place on April 20 of this year when Michael was in Boulder,...
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