Climate Change is causing problems and also increases our health risk; did you notice how hot it has been in Australia this year; and don’t you feel that the summers are getting longer and longer in Australia each year?
 
In countries like Australia, the average temperate has been increasing over the past 10 years; we have seen record breaking hot temperatures in Australia almost every year.

 
A far worse health risk is also emerging in Australia, which is skin cancer. Skin cancer is already one of the most lethal cancers in Australia; despite of the increasing awareness towards sun protection; skin cancer remains as a major health risk in Australia; and it is actually getting worse due to the climate change.
 
Are Sun Screens really enough?
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You don’t need to travel overseas to find international green career opportunities. We launched our first edition of Top Environmental Engineering Firms - USA this week, I was so impressed with the diversifty of the companies in terms of their geographical locations as well as capabilities.
I have always wanted to launch a report dedicated to this industry as it is a fast growing industry, and my guess was correct, out of the 200 firms we have researched on, there are less than 10 companies not hiring at moment, what a big contrast compare to other industries!
Furthermore, many of these companies are both national & international companies; and international recruitment is certainly on the rise especially in Asia and South America.
US environmental companies are global leaders in many segments; especially water resources management; which include planning, development and implementation of water resources technologies. Urban planning, energy management are also excellent areas that US companies are able to export.
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Just finished my trip in Vancouver, Canada (not Vancouver, Washington); and what an interesting comparison to compare that to Sydney (Sydney, Australia not Sydney, Nova Scotia). The names themselves are so confusing..lo.
Many have compared Canada & Australia as likely cities, both have made themselves to most livable countries in the world; I am not going to comment on the ranking as frankly speaking, I think the ranking works on some some strange system that nobody understands.
However, Canada has a number unique advantages to Australia. First, I am not afraid of cold, and it’s not really that cold in Vancouver anyway, it did go down to -7 while I was there, and that was as cold as you can get!
Canada, being right next to the big USA has so many advantages (and maybe some disadvantages); on the way coming over from USA; we could see lots of ships lining up, and we are talking about RECESSION!! The scale of economy is amazing; I had counted number of cargo ships arriving; it was a huge line; and Canada had benefited a lot because of the transportation cost from US is bugger all as they say in Australia. This advantage has helped Canada to source goods at reasonable price, the general cost of living in Canada is much lower than in Australia.
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Our research has revealed some interesting cities that capital seekers should consider when comes to Green Investments.
Now we have seen 2009 was truly a beginning of the “Green Investment” era with many more predicting 2010 is going to be a stellar year for Green investments. We have gathered information throughout 2009 by following deal-flows announced; and determined where the best cities are for 2010 for green investments.
Not surprisingly, USA still dominates the list, and we believe the trend will continue so as USA remains the world’s biggest venture capital & private equity market, and frankly speaking, it is quite difficult to see how this will change over the next decade or two. While China is rising, its investments are mainly driven by Government funding, the venture capitals are starting to become influential in China, with most of them actually set up by their US or European counterparts.
Check out our Global CleanTech & Renewable Energy Capital Providers Guide from http://researchwhitepaper.com
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I mean a small “traditional notebook”, I carry a notebook with me all the time, ready for me to write down notes and also plan my day. Being a business entreprenuer; you need to work on at least 20 things a day, and you need very strong delegation & priortization.
This was my biggest mistake in 2009, not delegating and priotizing enough, this meant a lot of waste opportunities. Also, to know what you are best at, “To know the best devil in you” (as one of my readers put it…not sure why he used the word “devil”, but, he had his good point.
This year, my notebook is full of actions already; and I have deleted the entire section called “Wish List”; we were moving into consultany services back in second half 2009, and in the end, it was not really worth it; as it takes 3 times amount of time to complete the projects; the pay was higher, but it all come down to efficiency.
Finally, from my notebook; I carried out analysis on $ / Hour (which is so basic..); we had products and services for 2009; the products division turned out to be much better; it is always handy to refer back to my notebook and check on the notes I made in 2009 & 2008 to ensure we do not walk around the circle.
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After spending close to 3 months in North America meeting with venture capitalists, start-up CEOs, entrepreneurs, university-CEO-wannabies (as I call them), and coming home to Australia for a few months, it is a very big contrast. I have travelled a lot in 2009, mainly looking at opportunities in North America. Despite of the recession, the opportunities are just tremendous; the fundamanetal differentece between North America and Australia is: VISION.
It is interesting to ask graduates from US/Canadian & Australian universities: What do you want to do when you graduate? A very large number of North American graduates will say “I want to start my own business”, others would say “I want to try out a few companies before I start my own business” and universities have a tradition in fostering this, including grants, fundings, associations, and so much so, there are good universities even offering MBA student administered venture capital funds, to give them real-life experience in analyzing, negotiation and investing and become board members of their portfolio companies.
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Many have asked me about international Social Media recently, especially strong interest in Chinese Social Media. Sure, there are strong arguments that this is a fast growing sector, if you think about it, there are over 300 million net users in China already (380 million if you include other Chinese speaking populations), this means, there are more Chinese Net-Citizens in China than the entire US population! Many are also predicting 500 million users by 2015, the figure itself is quite beyond imagination!
But what about freedom of speech and Internet media? They are of “grave” concerns to many marketers, and their concerns are quite valid. Recently, I asked my team based in China to conduct Facebook marketing for a client, and it has caused a lot of frustration as it takes 20 minutes to reload each Facebook page for her! In the end, I have to give up and rotate the task to our team based outside China.
Another good example is Video, YouTube is frequently banned and removed in China, and again, this is causing a lot of frustration for advertisers; as they are unable to reach the target consumers in China.
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Full article and Global CleanTech Capital Providers Guide from www.researchwhitepaper.com
CleanTech, Environmental and Renewable Energy are reshaping our economies, and also the balance of the global economies, some countries will emerge as the new generation leading economies, while resources focused economies may decline, let us look at each nation with interest.
United States
It is both a major economy for the old and new energy, US is set to benefit significantly from green economy, and it will be a dominant player in the global market for 2 reasons: Its Government incentives and supports in developing the green economy, and it has very large number of institutions investing in related industries, there are more CleanTech / Environmental Venture Capital funds than anyone else in the world. We believe the green economy will create millions of new jobs next decade in US.
China
One of the world’s major polluters, but for a different reason, China is now emerging as one of the world’s largest economy for CleanTech and Environmental sectors. This was caused by thr growing health concern in China due to the pollution, and increasing natural disasters such as landslide. Because of this reason, the Chinese Government have announced various policies and initiatives supporting the renewable energy and environmental sectors in China. Key focuses are Wind, Solar, Water Management and Soil Management.
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When comes to CleanTech Investments, many have associated the word with Environmental Friendly technologies, wind, solar, geothermal. As a matter of fact, many companies are also being considered by CleanTech Venture Capital Firms for different reasons such as energy efficiency.
Intel, widely known for its innovations and technology capabilities in memory processers and semiconductors industry, is aactually becoming a major CleanTech Investor. Last month, Intel capital has picked out five companies who centralize on clean technology to invest about $10 million. The global investment arm of santa clara chipmaker Intel Corp has announced that the stake spans two continents.
The investment encompasses Palo Alto-based iControl Inc., which facilitates an IP-based platform to supervise the domestic security.Also gaining investments were New York-based CPower, San Francisco-based Grid Net, Limerick, Ireland-based Powervation and Richardson, Texas-based Convey Computer.
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We are always interested in finding out smart companies from emerging economies, and Ukraine is one of our latest findings with many “hidden gem” companies.
When comes to IT outsourcing and applications developments, many western companies think of India immediately, but there are many talented companies now based in other emerging economies such as Ukraine..
The European market is an interesting market, because of the diversity and differences in consumer behaviour, some markets are more pro-US products, whereas others are more in favour of the European products and applications.
Ukrainian companies have long associations with Germany, Central Europe and close links with Sweden as well, also have supported Russian companies in terms of IT and applications developments. These experiences mean that they are capable in delivering solutions in different languages, which is a value-added service on its own.
Recently, we met with Uprise Apps (www.upriseapps.com), the company has come up with a number of effective solutions merging the contents for us, and linking our websites with Google Docs and Google Apps.
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