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Credit Crisis 101 - Building Bridges to a Place We Actually Want to Go

October 16, 2008

Posted by Andy Stevenson in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

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bankingcrisis, businessasusual, capandinvest, creditcrisis, markettransformation

See Also: Part 1, Part 3 This is the second part of a three part series on how the credit crisis started, where it has left us, and how we can start re-powering our economy starting today.  Credit Crisis 101...continued

Credit Crisis 101 - The Financial Alchemy of Donuts

October 8, 2008

Posted by Andy Stevenson in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
bankingcrisis, businessasusual, capandinvest, markettransformation

See Also: Part 2, Part 3 In order to connect the dots from today's financial crisis to tomorrow's new energy economy, I thought it would be worthwhile to write a three part series to explain 1) how the credit crisis...continued

Why Putting a Price on Carbon is Fast Becoming an Economic Necessity

September 30, 2008

Posted by Andy Stevenson in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
bankingcrisis, businessasusual, capandinvest, capandtrade, hotflatandcrowded, markettransformation, tomfriedman

With short term borrowing costs skyrocketing, banks are being forced to charge a premium to companies looking to access their balance sheet for longer term financing. This secondary effect of the banks' retrenchment is cause for concern at it will...continued

Now that Business As Usual is Dead, Its Time for Us to Pass the Cap

September 23, 2008

Posted by Andy Stevenson in Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
businessasusual, capandtrade, carbonrisk, eor, markettransformation, ocsdrilling

The American economy got some more troubling news last week with the passing of industry's long time friend and ally Business As Usual (BAU). Yes BAU, that ever confident arbiter of Americas economic future is dead, the victim of a...continued