Category Archives: Sustainability

There is one question that, as an investor, I always ask myself – what if I’m wrong?

It’s great to have strong convictions about your investment decisions. But when this confidence becomes an unwavering belief that what you’re doing is a no-brainer, it can become your downfall. For every investment decision we make, we should always ask ourselves what happens if we’re wrong. How much of an impact will it have? Have [...]

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China’s Solar Master Plan Sets Production, Efficiency and Price Goals

  The production goals are part of a 5-year plan that began in 2011, when China upped its solar energy installation goal twice: from 10 gigawatts, which it set after Japan’s nuclear disaster last March, to 15 gigawatts (cumulative) by 2015. The Chinese government said the new 5-year plan aims to promote domestic solar energy use and [...]

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UT study debunks electric cars’ zero-emission ads

Heavily advertised for their “zero” emissions, electric cars actually can expose people to more air pollution than gasoline cars, according to a University of Tennessee study published in the most recent edition of Environmental Science and Technology. “These nonsensical claims that (electric cars) have zero emissions are not true,” said study author Chris Cherry, assistant [...]

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