• 1% For The Planet: An alliance of businesses committed to leveraging their resources to create a healthier planet. Members recognize their responsibility to and dependence on a healthy environment and donate at least 1% of their annual net revenues to environmental organizations worldwide.

• BIOconversion Blog: Covers international biomass conversion issues - process R&D, facility deployments, and new developments.

• Clean Break: Trends, happenings and innovations in the Clean Technology market. A blog by Tyler Hamilton.

• Clean Edge: The Clean-Tech Market Authority, has been a leading research and consulting firm helping companies, investors, and governments understand and profit from the emerging clean-tech sector since 2001.

• Clean Energy: This Government of Canada portal offers unique and extensive access to Canada's burgeoning environmental energy sector and up-to-date details on international climate change initiatives.

• Cleantech VC: Cleantech Investing is a news and commentary blog for those interested in venture capital in clean technologies.

• GreenOrder: Helps companies maximize the value of sustainability - making environmental excellence, energy innovation, and corporate responsibility drivers of profitable growth.

• Joel Makower: For nearly 20 years, Joel Makower has been a well-respected voice on business, the environment, and the bottom line. As a writer, speaker, and strategist on corporate environmental practices, clean technology, and green marketing, he has helped a wide range of companies align environmental responsibility with business success.

• SDTC: Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) is a not-for-profit foundation that finances and supports the development and demonstration of clean technologies which provide solutions to issues of climate change, clean air, water quality and soil, and which deliver economic, environmental and health benefits to Canadians.

• The Clinton Global Initiative: A non-partisan catalyst for action, bringing together a community of global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges.

• VentureBeat: VentureBeat’s mission is to provide news and information about private companies and the venture capital that fuels them. 

• Vinit Nijhawan: Serial Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist. A discussion of venture capital, entrepreneurship and innovation with particular focus on US, India and China.
   

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♦    Environmental References

• EnviroZine: Environment Canada's Online Newsmagazine:  http://www.ec.gc.ca/EnviroZine/english/home_e.cfm

• A cross-agency U.S. Government Web site on air quality: http://airnow.gov/

• David Suzuki Foundation: Since 1990, the David Suzuki Foundation has worked to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that sustains us. Focusing on four program areas - oceans and sustainable fishing, climate change and clean energy, sustainability, and the Nature Challenge - the foundation uses science and education to promote solutions that conserve nature and help achieve sustainability within a generation.

• EPA: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

• NRDC: Natural Resources Defence Council is the nation's most effective environmental action organization. We use law, science and the support of 1.2 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things.

• Sierra Club: Inspired by nature, the Sierra Club works to protect our communities and the planet. The Club is America's oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization with approximately 750,000 members.

• The Energy Blog: A place where all topics relating to The Energy Revolution are presented and form the basis for discussion.

• WorldChanging.com: Works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us.

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