Investing in renewal, green energy is no longer just a concept. It’s happening and several industries are on the move, including solar, battery storage systems and wind energy with the goal fo reducing worldwide dependence on fossil fuels to satisfy global energy demand. The Inflation Reduction Act provides funding and...
Do you remember, way back when large, flat-panel TVs hit the market? They were all the rage, but the price tag was prohibitively expensive. In 1997, The Phillips/Fujitsu Plasma flat screen TV hit the market with a retail price of  $22,924. The TV was accessible for the very few, but...
There’s an old adage in investment circles that suggests that “the trend is your friend.”  For decades, megatrends have always set the stage for winning investments, whether they involved technological revolutions, government driven regulation or population demographics.  This has certainly continued to ring true with ESG investing, and not even the...
ESG investing stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance investing. It is an investment approach that takes into account the environmental, social, and governance factors of a company when making investment decisions.  Environmental factors include a company's impact on the environment, such as its carbon emissions, resource usage, and waste management....
Last month, we profiled 3 companies in the wind energy industry. Most companies in this sector are seeing steady gains on increased green energy initiatives around the globe. Wind Energy in the Headlines U.S. Urged to Carve Out Wind, Solar Build Zones to Curb Delays (Reuters) Biggest Offshore Wind Farm in the...
Impact investing stopped being merely a hobby in 2018 when it hit $30 billion. Now it’s a megatrend with a global pandemic increasing the momentum further. It’s no longer about politics or morality. It’s about making money—plain and simple. And it’s disrupted Wall Street to the point that BlackRock is now...
With lawmakers reaching agreement on the debt ceiling, one of the winners in the negotiations could be wind and solar energy. The debt ceiling agreement paves the way for the building of interstate transmission lines which is key to Biden’s infrastructure agenda. Specifically, it would ease the permitting process for...
This year was the breakout year for Generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI). Tech companies, according to McKinsey, are positioned to see the most disruption from Gen Ai, “adding value equivalent to as much as 9 percent of global industry revenue”.  When McKinsey conducted its latest Gen AI survey in April this...
Reimagining the world and learning from it; that’s what today’s artificial intelligence advancements will allow us to do, from figuring out how to avoid disastrous wildfires and introducing carbon-mitigating ‘nature tech’ to reinventing mining so it works for us, rather than against us.  AI can build digital twins of real-word...