Billion Dollar Green E-Book

Tobin Smith

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 288

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2008

Beschreibung

Most Americans have no clue how quickly our internal supplies are crumbling. Tobin Smith will give you the facts and forecasts on growth in the "green investing front" and let you see for yourself just how large this opportunity is - right now and for years to come. This is the fastest growing sector - 13-fold over the next decade! Clean UP will show you how to make a small fortune now from "bridge green technologies," closing the gap between traditional and alternative fuels. Smith will also introduce you to a number of segments of the green investing world--taking you inside these agents of change and detail 8 to 10 companies who are real growth stocks with investment profit potential. This book is for anyone interested in investing in the companies that will make billions from the solutions to the billion-dollar problems in the green technology space.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Praise

Title Page

Copyright Page

Foreword

PREFACE

Introduction

What Drives the Green Wave?

An Oily Proposition

We Want Our NRG!

A Cleaner Future

Green Is Getting Cost Competitive

Mo’ Money, Mo’ Growth

The Greening of the Consumer

Building a Green Portfolio

Environment Protection Becomes Big Bucks

The Goal of This Book

CHAPTER 1 - Catalyzing into Green

Rising Global Energy Demand

The Chindia Syndrome

Where Does That Energy Come From?

Energy Security: The New Cold War

Carbon Concerns

CHAPTER 2 - Mandating Growth

Green Public Policy

Mo’ Money, Mo’ Growth

The Green Capital Boom

The VC View

Making Real Money

CHAPTER 3 - Waving The Green Flag

Driving Along in My Automobile

A Green Way Forward

The Hybrid Theory

Plug In and Fire Up the Engine

EV All the Way

How Do We Make Money?

The Bleeding Edge

Words of Caution

CHAPTER 4 - I Wanna Soak up the Sun!

Sand and Sun, Not Just a Vacation Mantra

Costs and Incentives: Creating Sunny Choices

Let the Sunshine In

The ChangeWave Thesis

Solar Superstars

A Solar Epilogue

CHAPTER 5 - Water, Water, Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink

You’re Going to Drive Me to Drinking

If You Build It, They Will Drink

A Tall Drink of Green Water

The Alliance Dips Its Toe into the Water

Splashing Around in the Water Investment Pool

Toweling Off—and on to the Power Grid

CHAPTER 6 - Avoiding “Grid” Lock

A Vision for the Modern Grid

Seven Valuable Virtues of the Modern Grid

Meters for the New Millennium

The Smart Meter Players

Adopting the Information Solution

CHAPTER 7 - Eco-Efficient IT

What Is Virtualization?

Saving Kilowatts Equals Saving Money

Virtually the Best

Eco-Efficient IT Is the Future

CHAPTER 8 - Green Plastics

The Rise of Green Plastics

The Why and Who of Green Plastics

A Question of Cost and Market Adoption

Just a Drop in the Bio Bucket

CHAPTER 9 - Fill ’Er Up with Biofuels

Ethanol: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Cellulosic Ethanol

Blame It on Rio

Mandates, Tax Credits, and Tariffs

Investing in Team Ethanol

Bye-Bye Biologics

CHAPTER 10 - Fuel Cells and Advanced Batteries

Fuel Cells: Hydrogen Anyone?

Fuel Cell Types and Applications

Big Costs, Big Benefits

Powering Your Portfolio with Fuel Cells

Advanced Batteries

CHAPTER 11 - Wind Power

Blowin’ Up the Energy Charts

The Good and the Bad of Blowin’ in the Wind

Turbines at a Glance

The Breezy Dynamics of Growth

Subsidies and Supply Shortages

Investing in Windy Conditions

Blowing on to Chapter 12

CHAPTER 12 - The New, Old Green Tech

The Coal, Hard Facts

Movin’ On Up from Low Grade to High Grade

Scrubbing Coal’s Image

The Great Carbon Roundup

A Deeper Shade of Green

CHAPTER 13 - Living La Vida Verde

The Green We Inhabit

By the Dawn’s Early Green Light

LED Lighting Leads the Way

Green Movement Market Opportunities

Toward the End of a Green Journey

CHAPTER 14 - Building a Green Portfolio

CAUTION: Green Portfolio Construction Ahead

The World Is Not Flat—It’s Voracious

APPENDIX A - Master List of Green Companies

APPENDIX B - Green Investing Resources

References

Index

Additional Praise forBillion Dollar Green

“A must-read book about the green revolution that crosses political lines and helps investors invest more wisely in green energy. Green energy is coming one way or the other. Tobin Smith shows you where it will land so you can profit. Absolutely fascinating read.”

Louis Navellier CIO of Navellier & Associates Author of The Little Book That Makes You Rich

“There are a lot of stock market prognosticators out there but few are the real deal and Toby happens to be at the top of the list. Investors like Toby because of his wit and charm but everyone respects him because of his ability to see out further into the future than others. More importantly is with the rapid greening of capitlaism it’s so important that investors truly understand how to capitalize. Toby explains the Eco Revolution and names the exact companies to be in order to profit from it.”

Charles Payne Founder & CEO Wall Street Strategies

“Ride the green wave to success with this indispensible guide to the coming global economic transformation! As usual, Tobin Smith is ahead of the curve, synthesizing a complex theme into easy-to-understand, useful information for all investors.”

Jill Schlesinger,CFP Chief Investment Officer StrategicPoint Investment Advisors

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:Smith, Tobin, 1957- Billion dollar green : profit from the eco revolution / Tobin Smith. p. cm. Includes index.

eISBN : 978-0-470-47550-8

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Foreword

I’ve been conserving energy and water since I was four.

Oh yes, as a child growing up in L.A. in the 1970s, many of us learned how to conserve before we learned how to read. I’ll never forget my father marching us upstairs one day to show us how to put a brick in the toilet tank. My four siblings and I were enraptured. “It’ll save water, kids. Because,” he said very slowly so that we fully understood, “one day the world might not have enough clean water.”

Listen, it wasn’t exactly a news flash, even for this preschooler. We were already grappling with the drought back then . . . fending off dagger eyes from the San Francisco folks because Los Angeles was “stealing northern Californians’ water.” We battled yellowish-gray smog that prompted the infamous “smog alerts” screamed at us by Eyewitness News anchors every morning.

So I suppose you could say that from an early age I had a sense of what it meant to be “Green.” But aside from my forward-thinking father and some of his friends—one of whom climbed up on his roof in Beverly Hills and installed solar panels 36 years ago and hasn’t paid an electric bill since—most people following the Green movement were thought of by others as “those kooks in Topanga Canyon,” or macramé-toting nature moms. I mean, could you really make a dime off Ed Begley Jr.’s idea to run his toaster by pedaling a stationary bicycle? C’mon. Making real green off being Green was never part of the equation. Until now.

Little did we know that we were on the very cusp of an idea that would take three more decades to really take hold. Now, as we face skyrocketing global energy, water, and food demand, suddenly the world has woken up. But as the proverbial sun rises on this idea whose time seems to have finally come, it has brought along the realization that there’s a massive land grab going on in Green Land.

Enter Tobin Smith. What Tobin has done for you with Billion Dollar Green is not only generous, but genius as well. He’s done the heavy-lifting homework for the legions of investors who rightly believe there’s money to be made off the Movement but just don’t know where to begin. If you’re one of those folks who’s just now realizing that Green technology—wind, solar, biofuel, Green nano-technology—are investments you should have in your portfolio, a mere scratching of the surface has probably revealed that while world governments were fiddling, Rome wasn’t the only city burning. New York, Beijing, Moscow, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and the rest have become polluted and panicked.

The good news is that smart people everywhere weren’t waiting for world leaders to lead. They have been starting up companies around the world that could very well solve most, if not all of our problems. Legions of brilliant scientists and entrepreneurs have been at it for years, and many of them have begun companies that are ripe for your investment portfolio. But caution is the keyword. We all know how many dot-coms sprouted up in the late 1990s. And, conversely, we know how many of them failed. Tobin has pin-pointed the Green names he feels have a fighting chance and are worth a look for your portfolio.

Is global warming a reality? I’ll leave you with this: last year I had a chance to ask the world’s second-richest man whether he believes global warming is real. Warren Buffett also happens to be arguably the greatest investor of our time. He didn’t pause for long before telling me, “Well, Liz, we don’t really know. But since we only have one planet, we’d better err on the side of the planet.”

LIZ CLAMAN September 2008 New York, New York

PREFACE

An Opportunity Too Big to Miss

If you’ve just picked up this book, most likely you’re of a mind that investing in alternative, clean, green, and energy technologies as well as their many related sectors is an opportunity too big to miss out on.

To that I say: Wise decision!

You see, it’s not hyperbole to believe that the greatest wealth creation wave since the discovery of oil is upon us right here, right now—and more importantly, will likely be with us for the next two decades and beyond.

Moreover, your decision to read this book is also a great one—if I may be so bold as to say so myself—because it will give you a quick, painless, and very enjoyable education in the opportunities that a new greener world has brought forth.