Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Securities of fossil fuels firms, as an economic sector, may soon be on the decline.
The Green Alpha Advisors' approach to portfolio management utilizes a top-down macroeconomic model reflecting how global economies will evolve to meet demands presented by modern challenges such as resource scarcity, growing populations, land and food...
On a recent broadcast of the news show Democracy Now hosted by Amy Goodman, Cynthia Rosenzweig, co-chair of the New York City Panel on Climate Change, went out of her way to begin her comments on Hurricane Sandy and the effects of global warming to issue...
Let's be clear: Justice is not an immutable law of nature. Neither math nor physics nor chemistry recognizes justice as one of the universe's governing principles. The strong, rich, and powerful have, since long before humans emerged, by and large taken...
The hysterics around recent solar industry announcements that in general profit margins are narrowing are, as usual with all things solar recently, completely overblown. "Is This A Death Spiral for Solar Companies?" might be my favorite histrionic headline...
The Occupy Wall Street movement (OWS), now in its fourth week, is getting a lot of media attention. Opinions are divided. By and large, conservatives represent the protesters as "a mob" (a notable exception is former governor of Louisiana and current...
Tom Konrad has kindly provided an opportunity for me to contribute a response to his recent piece "Inverter Stocks: A Value BOS Play on Solar." I'm grateful for the opportunity because it gives me the chance to discuss these stocks and along the way to...
Much has been made this week about the nearly contemporaneous bankruptcy filings of two American solar companies, Silicon Valley's Solyndra and Evergreen Solar (formerly ESLR) out of Massachusetts. These two had something in common: Both made different...
For most of 2011, the stocks of solar power companies of all kinds, from providers of raw polysilicon to developers of finished utility scale plants, have been taking a beating on world and U.S. stock markets, partly because solar has been the industry...
A couple days ago Bloomberg reported the following: "Saudi Arabia plans to generate solar electricity equaling the amount of its energy from crude exports, Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi said." Wait, what?
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