Co-Founder, US Renewables Grup
Founder and Managing Partner of venture-capital investors Rustic Canyon Partners, and one of the founders of US Renewables Group, the largest West Coast, private-equity investor in renewable resources and clean fuels
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Tom Unterman
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FROM Tom Unterman
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Will Plummeting Oil Prices Cause a Clean-Energy Meltdown? Both John McCain and Barack Obama say America needs renewable energy—wind, solar, nuclear and "clean coal" as opposed to oil and natural gas. When the price of oil was rising, those alternative technologies were attracting needed investment. But oil now costs half what it did just a few weeks ago.
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Climate Change: International Challenge and Business Opportunity Receiving the Nobel Prize today, Al Gore warned that failure to act against global warming will mean "mutually assured destruction." He had strong words for the US and China, two of the 190 nations meeting in Bali to hash out guidelines for a new treaty for reducing greenhouse gases.
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