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As the “greening” movement continues to become more part of routine operations, today’s investors, business owners, entrepreneurs, activists and public policy advisors need to keep abreast of cleantech trends and how they can take advantage of those trends. Click the link to learn about this March 19 virtual panel discussion.

From our friends at the DealBook blog:Carter BalesThe race to cash in on the environmental technology wave just got a little more crowded on Monday with the founding of the New World Capital Group, a private equity firm focused on investing in companies in the nascent “green tech” sector. Led by Carter Bales, an industry heavyweight who founded the environmental practice at McKinsey in the 1980s, and assisted by four partners including Bradley Abelow, former head of operations at Goldman Sachs

RICHMOND — Farming, David Ferrell says, “is all I ever wanted to do.” At age 20, the recent Virginia Tech grad sees a good future in farming, even for tobacco, a crop that has sustained his family’s farm in Charlotte County for several generations. Despite the many uncertainties in tobacco, including declining U.S. smoking rates, rising tobacco taxes and regulation of the industry by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Ferrell and his brother, Kevin, 24, are investing in tobacco producti

The world’s few remaining billionaires all over the globe are turning into eco-barons. The Sunday Times had published first Green List of top 100 rich who are investing in some green technology or the other.  Environment is taking precedence in business too. Economics is turning into Geonomics. Yes, world wealth has gone down with recession and in the times of crisis it is quite intriguing that rich are investing in green technology. On top of the Green 100 list is Warren Buffet whose net

Photo via Women's RIghts The opening session on the second day of the Clinton Global Initiative focused on an under-examined issue in the green movement--women's rights and empowerment. When I sat down with Bill Clinton the night before CGI began, he mentioned that investing in women and girls was a good way to invest in fighting climate change. Providing education to women in developing nations has been proven to combat ove... Read the full story on TreeHugger