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A Profusion of Green Jobs is Just a Carbon Cap Away

Posted on October 06, 2008

This Sunday's New York Times Magazine had a cover story on green investment titled Capitalism to the Rescue . We've mentioned in other posts that venture capital investment in clean energy is on the rise. This article was interesting in that it profiled one particular venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins. The author interviewed the firm's partners about why they see clean energy as such a good investment.To start with, explained partner Randy Komisar, the current energy market is so large and outdated that green-tech is a huge and relatively low-risk opportunity. And we're not, as many thi...

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