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Money Is All That’s Green in Biodiesel

The only green in biodiesel fuel is the money producers make
from it, new research has revealed.

Subsidies: Who Really Benefits? – INTER PRESS SERVICE

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CLIMATE CHANGE: City Apartheid Built Turns Green

Something unusual is happening in Atlantis. Created in the 1970s to fulfill
the apartheid government’s agenda to evict “coloured” South Africans from
Cape Town, Atlantis has always been best known as the city that apartheid
built.

Southern Africa – INTER PRESS SERVICE

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Are Business Startup Angel Financing Groups Tough to Satisfy? Top 5 Ways you can Get a Green Signal Fast!

In one word – Yes, they are! They are pretty tough to crack. In fact, any investor wanting to invest in a venture that has not yet run its course and has not started making profits will be skeptical about putting their money into your idea. However, the silver lining is that business startup angel financing groups are less skeptical than others, because it is their job to fund new ventures and make heir living out of the same!

Having fixed an appointment with the same, you have to follow these 5 top ways to convince your angel investors to invest with you, in your idea!

Get the Green Signal Tip #1: Summarize How your Business Model Works

Get precise, people! Frankly speaking, in this jet age no one has the time to listen to lengthy stories; and if it is with money and financing, people are already half-disinterested. Therefore to make them interested, you have to show them what your project is capable of doing. Have a business model summary ready in your hand and do your homework before you can even think on capitalizing on the appointment.

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Whether your business model works on developing new products or is a totally new technological breakthrough – you have to summarize all this and more in your project.

Get the Green Signal Tip #2: Hopefully it is not a stolen Idea that you want to capitalize on!

Now, this is really a tricky part. If you have the brains and the aptitude to capitalize on a borrowed idea, you can go ahead; but in case if this is a ‘one-night-I-overheard’ thing, know it that you’ll have really a tough time in convincing your investors. It may also happen that some other people had come with the same idea. Angel investors have good networks and they can find that out. Do whatever, but not bluff!

Get the Green Signal Tip #3: Returns based on simulated research

What your investors are interested in the end is the amount you can make and the turnover, your venture/idea is capable of. Therefore the best thing would be to already have a working prototype at hand and then based on simulated models and projections, you can give a well-made idea about the profits in the idea.

Get the Green Signal Tip #4: Vision and Long-term Goals

Investors and businessmen like people with vision and goals. If you’ve a passion to pursue your dream and your idea, you’ll also have the long term goal in your mind and that is the area you need to capitalize on.

Get the Green Signal Tip #5: Beating the Competition

Today, with so many new ideas floating and new businesses coming in the market, there is a great chance that you have a competition already! Make no mistakes about the fact that your investor WILL ask you about that. Your business idea has to be a bit different from your competitor even if the end product is same.

Research, study and doing your homework will drive home the point and get you the funds!

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Green Jobs not Materializing as Quickly as Anticipated

In spite of the fact that new “cleantech” sectors are having explosive job growth, real jobs are not materializing as quickly as anticipated.   Yesterday’s event, Sizing the Clean Economy: A National and Regional Green Jobs Assessment, at the Brookings Institution provided a compelling look at the reality of job growth and the green industry.   Mark Muro, a senior fellow at Brookings, states that this industry will only moderately contribute to new jobs for the next three to five years.  More innovation and new technology is needed for this industry to really take off and produce a wealth of jobs. 

It should be noted “green” or “clean” economy is very hard to define and these jobs cut across many sectors of the economy.  For example if you include all jobs that contribute to reducing carbon emissions, job growth was only 3.4% annually between 2003 and 2010. The larger growth has been in younger energy related segments of the green economy such as wind, solar, and smart grid whose jobs are growing at a fast pace, but their base is small.  These jobs are not materializing quickly because they require technical training due to the relatively new emergence of the cleantech industry.  More investment now in the cleantech industry will help to grown more jobs for the future.

Interestingly, the clean economy currently employs 2.7 million workers. While this may seem like a small number, in fact, it is larger than all the workers employed by the fossil fuels industry. The fastest growing metropolitan area for green jobs is in New York, Northern New Jersey, and Pennsylvania area which produced 152,034 jobs in 2010.

There is a lot of promise in the clean economy and even though it is not expanding as quickly as anticipated.  Investing in the clean economy now, however, will pay off in a couple years.

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Green Job Grants Available for a Sustainable Career

Green Business League has received a 0000 one-time grant for Green job creation. This is a rare opportunity, and there is no assurance that the grant will be repeated, but the next 20 Green Consultants or Certified Sustainability Officers will get the grant. When the money is gone, the program is over.

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Federal Grants Support Green Enterprises

Tonight, over eighty percent of American families are struggling with overwhelming debt. Like the banks, families, too, have “toxic assets”-homes and cars that are worth less than they owe. Many have suffered severe adjustments in their mortgage interest rates, which in many cases have doubled their monthly payments. In addition, the average American family labors under the burden of more than ,000 in unsecured debts-credit cards with interest rates sometimes over thirty percent.

American families need both inspiration and help. The federal government may supply both in the form of grants for small businesses.

Brent and Lisa, a married couple in their mid-forties, have worked at their respective jobs for more than twenty years, and they have risen up the company ladders about as far as they can climb. Brent has hit the top of his salary class, and Lisa has hit the glass ceiling. Both feel frustrated, because their salaries, even with overtime, do not quite cover all their expenses.

Working in their own backyard, Brent and Lisa have learned a great deal about “greenscaping” and America’s new version of “family farming”-backyard vegetable gardens and orchards. They have become so successful as green gardeners, their neighbors have hired them to do their yards, too. Spending hours over the kitchen table, Brent and Lisa have developed a plan for launching their own greenscaping business…if only they can find start-up funding.

Experts suggest that a federal grant may provide precisely the assistance Brent and Lisa require.

Sam Schwartz, and expert on federal government grants, encourages Brent and Lisa to apply for a grant from the Small Business Administration. “I like their ideas very much,” Schwartz says, “and I can see that they have passion, vision, and smarts in the right measures. I think they can succeed in their own business; and if I think so, I believe the SBA grant proposal reviewers will think so, too. Brent and Lisa should have no trouble qualifying.”

If, like Brent and Lisa, you have a promising idea for a small business-especially a “green” business or a contributor to a high-tech industry-search and apply for a federal grant to launch your dreams. Managed wisely, the grant funds will cover not only your business costs but also your monthly expenses until your business goes into the black. Many SBA-funded businesses turn a profit almost immediately. Why not find out if yours can, too.

I have done a bit of research for you. These Government Grant Experts can help you get the grants you deserve by helping you get out of debt fast. You can find out if you qualify for a Government Grant for free!

Click here to fill out a short form to save your finances and get out of debt as early as this week!

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Michel_B.

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Go Green – Save Green, 125 Ways To Save Money

Go Green – Save Green, 125 Ways To Save Money
125 Ways To Save Money … and Still Be Green! Go Green – Save Green And Make A Massive Difference. This book saves you money and you can still be green…
Go Green – Save Green, 125 Ways To Save Money

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Washington, DC Launches New Government Grants, Work at Home Jobs Export-Import Toll Free Number 888 384 9608 for US Citizens and Green Card Holders

Washington, DC (PRWEB) February 27, 2006

The business marketplace is rapidly becoming less localized and more international. Import-export revenues are increasing faster than any area of the economy. In fact, National import revenues often exceed the gross national product of countries with whom we trade. A major benefactor is small business, work-at-home moms and entrepreneurs in the form of government grants and loans.

These import-export trends are expected to continue as communication and transportation capabilities become more sophisticated. One entity that’s paving the way in this field is Government Publications, based out of Washington, DC. They are dedicated to researching and publishing the latest information about government grants, loans and other sources of aid for small business and entrepreneurs.

Government Publications offers a complete business start-up kit for US and Canadian residents on CD-Rom. It includes instructions for successfully importing/exporting products from and to foreign countries. The program reveals how and where US and Canadian residents can obtain free government grants and low-interest loans to start a new or expand an existing business. It includes contracting opportunities for selling products and services to the US Government. It lists hundreds of importers-exporters according to geographical area and type of product they buy or sell.

In addition,”Billions of loan and government grant dollars have been earmarked for people previously identified as credit risks,” announced Mike Greene, a researcher for Government Publications. Government grants,loans, free money is available to purchase homes, cars, start a business,consolidate debts and many other purposes.

“Now is the time to act if you need money for any worthwhile purpose,” urged Greene. He also reported that several reduced-cost and even free programs now exist to benefit the economically disadvantaged and recently unemployed.

“Imagine for a second of going through the process of filling out a few forms supplied by the government ,dropping them in the mail and then receiving a government grant check sent to you for thousands of dollars?? or more”.

“Free money you never have to pay back. It may sound unbelievable but every day people and businesses are receiving government grant checks in the mail for doing nothing more than asking,” replied Greene.

Government Publications offers a CD-ROM that provides the latest information on the above programs. It covers free government grants and loan resources available for a wide variety of purposes. The CD-ROM includes start-up information on over 95 work at home jobs that pay cash. For example, How to Buy and Sell Foreclosed Properties, How to Start a Profitable Gift Basket Business, How to Start a Cleaning Business and How to Become a Loan Broker. The business program includes http://capitalpublications.com/secure_html/free_loan_broker.html and http://www.merchantamerica.com/governmentgrants , which teaches customers to eBay™ the correct way.

The Government Grants Work at Home Jobs CD Rom combines all programs into one price,it also includes 50 successful free government grant applications that were funded. These sample applications are essential items since most denied loan and grant applications are due to improper or incomplete paperwork. For more information on the Work at Home Jobs CD containing all programs log on to http://www.capitalpublications.com. To visit individual sites combined on Work at Home Jobs CD visit http://www.capitalpublications.com/secure_html/free_work_at_home.html http:// press.arrivenet.com/government/article.php/625870.html http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=85269

To learn more search http://www.kazzoom.com or call the Government Grants 24 hour info at 800-306-0873 or Government Grants Info Line 888-384-9608, Government Grants Info line 800-306-0990, Government Grants request more info line 800-416-0712

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Formula One: Formula One Seeking to Go Green

Max Mosley, the FIA president, has proposed a “green revolution” for 2011 which would transform formula one. Under proposals which were recently sent to all car manufacturers involved in the sport, the current 2.4-liter V8 engine regulations would be scrapped. The new rules would call for eco-friendly 2.2-liter turbocharged V6s running on biofuel and developing around 770 horsepower, around 100 horsepower less than present, according to reports in F1 Racing magazine .

Maximum revs would be restricted to 10,000rpm, down from 19,000rpm, which would make the new generation of cars much quieter than the current machines. Each engine would run five grands prix between routine changes, rather than two races under the current rules, and the cars would be fitted with traction control, four-wheel drive and have a power-boost facility that could be deployed by the driver to enhance overtaking opportunities.

“We are in active discussions with the major manufacturers to ensure that, in future, research and development relevant only to formula one will be discouraged, whereas that which has relevance to road-car development will be encouraged,” said Mosley. “We understand that such an approach has broad support from the competing manufacturers and we will work closely with them to ensure that, in particular, the new environmentally relevant technologies that many of them are developing are made our priority.”

He added: “Whilst aiming to achieve these goals we will ensure that the sporting spectacle of F1 remains the same or is even improved by the new developments.”

The proposals were submitted to the car makers by Mosley and Burkhard Göschel, chairman of the formula one manufacturers’ advisory commission. They were framed in a document produced by the FIA technical consultants Peter Wright and Tony Purnell, the former Jaguar team principal, in conjunction with the British engine technology specialists Ricardo who were recently appointed advisers to the sport’s governing body.

The submission has yet to be considered in proper detail by the teams. “McLaren’s view is not yet fully formed,” said Martin Whitmarsh, their chief executive. “I think you would have to say that, on the face of it, these are very laudable propositions. However, I think we have been going through a period of much change in formula one, what with sealed engines in 2007, new electronic systems in 2008, energy recovery systems in 2009 and then more sweeping changes from 2011.

“Change is always very expensive in formula one. We understand that the sport must evolve, but we are concerned about cost.”

Proposed changes

Replace current 2.4-litre V8s with 2.2-litre turbocharged V6s

Engines to be around 770 horsepower – about 100hp less than present

Engines to run five grands prix without changes

Four-wheel drive and traction-control systems

Power-boost facility to enhance overtaking

Cars to use ecologically sympathetic biofuels rather than fossil fuels

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The Rising Green Home Loan Market

Introduction

As Green issues increasingly play on people’s mind the desire to renovate defunct properties or build eco-friendly properties is growing. Mortgage lenders, who typically steered away from such projects, now recognise a growing market and many more are now willing to loan money to fund such projects. This article discusses the rise of the Green Home Loan and the complexities surrounding it.

Green Mortgages

Only a handful of specialist lenders are offering green home loans. These can either be loans that offer environmentally friendly perks, such as free energy savings reports, carbon offsetting and cash back for energy saving home improvements or those that fund large scale renovations of disused buildings and energy efficient new builds.

For larger projects people will still have there hands tied as to where they can go for a loan, but companies such as Ecology are happy to offer loans on smaller projects that other lenders won’t offer mortgages on. It will offer loans on log cabins or timber chalets and properties built using traditional materials like straw. It also offers loans to develop rundown houses, unused churches or derelict buildings. In the past the company has been known to fund projects to develop disused lighthouses, chapels, oast houses, water towers and barns.

One of the problems though of going to such companies, is that as they are dealing with niche loans, they will typically charge a higher rate of interest than for those found in traditional mortgages. Another problem is that companies offering green mortgages often find it difficult to carry out surveys or valuations. The lenders also find it difficult to establish whether they could resell the property in the event of payments defaults and subsequent repossession.

Recognising the growth in the market though, other companies like Norwich and Peterborough are now offering their own flavour of niche green mortgages. These companies offer green loans on new and existing homes with higher than average standards of energy efficiency or existing homes that buyers plan to make more environmentally friendly. Norwich and Peterborough’s green loans come with free energy rating surveys and perks such as cash back that can be used to improve the energy efficiency of the home.

Some lenders also have other sales gimmicks on their green loans, for example Norwich and Peterborough say they plant 40 trees for each green mortgage it sells and other lenders say they will plant one tree for each year you have the mortgage.

As concerns over climate change grow there are expected to be more and more lenders offering green home loans. The government is also launching various incentives for borrowers looking to improve the energy efficiency of their homes.

Brokers warn that homeowners should be wary of just how much of what is offered on green loans is a sales gimmick and how much of it is actually a tangible benefit. Some brokers advise that people looking to take out a loan on a conventional property might want to take out a more competitively priced standard loan and then donate to a carbon offsetting scheme on their own. Unfortunately, if your dream home is unconventional like a log cabin, then you are more or less forced to go to one of the companies like Ecology. Ecology has a range of mortgages, including buy-to-let and interest only deals and for properties that have a commercial element or loans to buy woodland that the buyer wants to preserve. At the time of writing, interest rates for residential mortgages start at 6.15% and for buy-to-let at 6.4%. Ecology also offers discount from its standard rates if people are taking out the home loan to increase the energy efficiency of their property. Borrowers can get a 1% discount if they are doing things like modifying the floor, wall and roof to improve energy efficiency or if they are installing low water-usage appliances.

The way some of the Ecology schemes work is to offer an initial loan amount to fund the start of a project, which is based on the value of the property or planning permission and then, as the building work progresses, to reassess the property’s value and to issue further funds accordingly. There is an interesting array of sustainable and recycled materials used in the developments Ecology has funded. These have included material such as timber, straw, cob, rammed earth, reclaimed brick and stone. Some of the properties and even underground or built into the side of hills, while others may incorporate good insulation, triple glazing, efficient boilers and renewable energy systems such as solar panels and rainwater collecting systems.

Most green mortgages are only offered for up to 90% of the property’s value, but are offered on part-commercial, part-residential schemes like working farms. It is very rare for a green home loan to be offered at a fixed interest rate, or for holiday and second homes.

Adrian has worked for the last 20 years on a mixture of I.T. and finance related projects. He has built up a considerable reputation in his field for his knowledge of both corporate and personal finance. He is currently working for the secured loans group We Introduce You.

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