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• T. BOONE PICKENS COMMENTS ON NBC’S REJECTION OF LATEST PICKENS PLAN AD - click here
• Investorideas.com Green Investor Audio Series; “Renewable Energy- The Perfect Storm,A Transformation of the World’s Energy Infrastructure “- click here
• Dakota Wind Energy Signs Over 40,000 Acres With Plans To Develop South Dakota’s Largest Community-Owned Wind Farm - click here
• DOW JONES INDEXES AND CHICAGO CLIMATE EXCHANGE LAUNCH GLOBAL EMISSIONS INDEX SERIES - click here
• Green IPO Watch at Renewableenergystocks.com, Schott Solar IPO- click here

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  Audio Interviews/ Podcasts

• Renewable Energy Stocks Green Investor Audio Interview with Ezra Green, CEO & Chairman of Clear Skies Solar, Inc. (OTCBB: CSKH) - Patented XTRAXR Technology Estimated at $500 million - $1 billion Globally - click here
• Investorideas.com Green Investor Audio Series; "Renewable Energy- The Perfect Storm, A Transformation of the World's Energy Infrastructure "- Michael Brush Audio with Michael Liebreich, head of the London-based clean energy research firm, New Energy Finance, Discussing Major Trends in Renewable Energy - click here
• Green Investor Audio with Professor Colin Oloman, Inventor of the ERC carbon capture technology, on behalf of Mantra Venture Group Ltd. (OTCBB: MVTG ) "ERC Carbon Capture Technology Represents Alternative or Add- on to Carbon Sequestration" - click here
• Global Policy and Investing Trends in Green Energy. Financial columnist Michael Brush continues his renewable energy audio series with a recent interview with Eric Martinot of the Institute for Sustainable Energy in Tokyo. - click here
• Renewable Energy Stocks Green Investor Audio Interview with Tom Djokovich, CEO of Thin Film Solar Company, XsunX, Inc. (OTCBB: XSNX). "We've designed our solar modules specifically for the electrical utilities scale market" - click here

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 Exclusive Articles

• Renewable and Solar Energy Perspectives with J. Peter Lynch - Solar Stocks - Looking for a Bottom? - The stock market has now slipped into “official” bear market territory and the press is full of negatives. - click here
• Catch the Wind - Green Investor at Investorideas.com, http://www.investorideas.com/gi/ By Paulo Nery - Wind is looking like one the great opportunities for this year. If you follow Jim Cramer at all you may have heard him declare this to be the year of wind. And just this past week that well-known oilman T. Boone Pickens, who is building an enormous 4,000 Megawatt wind farm in Pampa Texas, declared a major PR campaign for wind. The “Pickens Plan” (www.pickensplan.com) calls for rapid ramping up of wind power and advocates the use of natural gas vehicles. Pickens views wind as part of a solution to our rapidly increasing expenditure on foreign oil. Currently $700 Billion is going offshore each year to pay for imported oil. - click here

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Renewable Energy Indices

• Ardour Solar Energy IndexSM (SOLRX) is a rules-based, modified global-capitalization-weighted, float-adjusted index intended to give investors an efficient means of tracking the overall performance of a global universe of listed companies engaged in the solar industry. The Index is weighted based on the market capitalization of each of the component stocks, modified to conform to various asset diversification requirements, which are applied in conjunction with the scheduled quarterly adjustments to the Index. Index values are calculated on both a price-only and total-return basis.
• Ardour Global Index is a capitalization-weighted, float adjusted index of 81 of the most prominent alternative energy stocks in the world.
• Australian SAM Sustainability Index (AuSSI) tracks the performance of Australia's Sustainability leaders. The index comprises the leading third in terms of economic, environmental and social criteria out of a universe of close to 200 Australian companies.
• The Cleantech Index™ (CTIUS) includes US publicly traded "clean" technology companies that offer a diverse range of products, services, and processes designed to improve productivity and efficiency, while reducing environmental impact. The CTIUS includes nine sectors that span industries such as alternative energy, water resources and purification, advanced materials, and logistics. All of the companies in the CTIUS are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, or the American Stock Exchange
• Camino Energy maintains a global database of publicly-traded sustainable energy businesses. Its PurePlaytm Indices have been developed to focus on companies pursuing specific business activities in the sector. Current index coverage includes Solar, Renewable Electricity, Biofuels, and Fuel Cells".
• DAXglobal Alternative Energy Index
• Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes are a cooperation of Dow Jones Indexes, STOXX Limited and SAM Group. By bringing together the expertise of two leading index providers and the world-renowned pioneer in sustainability investing, the DJSI family rests on a strong foundation to meet the growing market demand for professional, objective and reliable sustainability benchmarks.
• Earth Index™ : Forty public companies trading on US exchanges that deliver solutions to environmental pollution. Earth Index™
• First Trust ISE Global Wind Energy Index Fund (FAN) is an exchange-traded fund. The investment objective of the Fund is to seek investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield, before the Fund's fees and expenses, of an equity index called the ISE Global Wind Energy Index.
• The ISE Global Wind Energy Index (GWE) provides a benchmark for investors interested in tracking public companies that are active in the wind energy industry based on analysis of those companies’ products and services.
• The Impax ET50 Index (ET50) is a performance-tracking index dedicated solely to publicly quoted companies that have core businesses in the development and operation of environmental technologies.
• Jefferies Global Clean Technology Composite IndexSM – Includes companies providing products and services related to solar, wind, fuel cells, microturbines, battery technology, biofuels and other alternative solutions.
• The KLD Global Climate 100SM Index (GC 100) is a specialty index designed to promote investment in public companies whose activities demonstrate the greatest potential for mitigating immediate and long-term causes of climate change. KLD, in partnership with the Global Energy Network Institute (GENI), created the Index in response to growing demand from institutions and individuals for investment strategies that address global warming.
• Ludlow Alternative Energy Index tracks some of the top alternative energy stocks. The Index provides both institutional and individual investors a tool for tracking the day to day performance of the alternative energy sector in a diversified basket. The index is designed for investors who have a long-term bullish outlook on alternative energy, and may be seeking a diversified portfolio within the sector. The Ludlow Alternative Energy Index is owned and operated by Ludlow Energy Fund. Ludlow Energy SmallCap Index
• Merriman Curhan Ford & Co. Next-Generation Energy (NGE) Indexsm (NYSE-Arca: NGE.X) tracks the top 30 small- and mid-cap U.S.-listed companies leading the important advances in the development and commercialization of five key NGE technology areas: fuel cells, solar power, alternative fuels, energy storage and other supporting technologies.
• The WilderHill Clean Energy Index (AMEX: ECO) is a modified equal dollar weighted index comprised of publicly traded companies whose business's stand to benefit substantially from societal transition toward the use of cleaner energy and conservation.
• NASDAQ Clean Edge U.S. Index - designed to track the performance of clean-energy companies that are publicly traded in the U.S. including companies engaged in the manufacturing, development, distribution, and installation of emerging clean-energy technologies such as solar photovoltaics, biofuels, and advanced batteries. The index is calculated and disseminated on a price return basis (NASDAQ: CLEN) and a total return basis (NASDAQ: CLNX)
• NASDAQ OMX(r) Clean Edge(r) Global Wind Energy Index is amodified market-capitalization index and includes companies that areprimarily manufacturers, developers, distributors, installers, andusers of energy derived from wind sources
• The Renaissance Green IPO Index - performance of newly public companies whose products and services offer solutions to environmental problems.
• The RENIXX® (Renewable Energy Industrial Index) - World is the first global stock index, which comprises the performance of the world´s 30 largest companies of the renewable energy industry whose weighting in the index is based on the market capitalization (free float).
• SecurityStockWatch.com Alternative Energy Index
• S&P Sector Indices Brochure
• The WilderHill® Progressive Energy Index (WHPRO) contains companies that can serve as an energy bridge improving near-term use of fossil fuel resources by progressively reducing carbon and other pollution.
• The WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index (NEX) in order to track companies in clean energy worldwide, that are based mainly outside of the United States.

Distributed Energy Financial Group LLC

Distributed Energy Stock Index (DESI) – focusing on the distributed energy and technology industry http://www.defgllc.com/ DESI Quarterly Report

DEFG’s Distributed Energy Stock Index (DESI) Reaches New High, Up 5.5% in Q3 - The Distributed Energy Financial Group LLC (DEFG, www.defgllc.com), a specialized consulting and financial services firm focused on the energy technology sector, released Q3 results today of the Distributed Energy Stock Index (DESI, pronounced Deh-Zee), an index of 42 publicly traded companies in the alternative energy space. click here

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Renewable Energy Funds and Venture Capital Investing

• Actis Energy Fund - click here
  FINANCE TYPE - Private Equities
  TECHNOLOGY TYPES - Energy Efficiency, Cleaner Fuels, Bioenergy, Geothermal, Small hydropower, Solar (PV and Thermal), Wind, Fuel Cells
  GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS - West Asia, North Africa, Central and South America, South Asia, South East Asia, East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
  COMMENTS - US$5m to US$50m equity and mezzanine investments in later stage proven technologies in partnership with experienced entrepreneurial management teams
• ALGONQUIN POWER INCOME FUND TR (TSX:APF-UN.TO) - click here. Algonquin Power Income Fund is an open-ended investment trust that owns and has interests in a diverse portfolio of power generating and infrastructure assets across North America, including 48 hydroelectric facilities, five natural gas-fired cogeneration facilities, 17 alternative fuels facilities and 15 water distribution and waste-water facilities. Algonquin Power Income Fund was established in 1997 to provide unitholders with sustainable, highly stable cash flows through a diversified portfolio of energy and infrastructure assets. Algonquin Power Income Fund's units and convertible debentures are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbols APF.UN, APF.DB & APF.DB.A and units are included in the S&P/TSX Composite Index
• All Season Financial New Power Fund - click here
  FINANCE TYPE - Public Equities
  SOURCE OF CAPITAL – Individual Investors
  TECHNOLOGY TYPES - Energy Efficiency, Geothermal, Small hydropower, Solar (PV and Thermal), Wind, Batteries/Storage, Clean Power Utilities, Transmission, Transportation, Wave and Tidal Power.
  GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS - Global
  COMMENTS - The All Season “New Power Fund” is a separate account strategy designed for individual investors. The portfolio has a minimum allocation of 50% to clean tech and renewable energy equities but can also include stocks from the healthy lifestyle sector including green grocers, organic food production or green product distribution. Selectivity based on leadership and relative strength are the primary drivers behind our investments but in certain types of markets, the portfolio will attempt to hedge sector and market risk. The New Power fund is actively traded and attempts to outperform the benchmark clean tech indices through up and down markets.
  
• Al Tayyar Energy - click here
  FINANCE TYPE - Private Equities
  TECHNOLOGY TYPES - Bioenergy, Small hydropower, Solar (PV and Thermal), Wind
  GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS - West Asia, North Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, South Asia, South East Asia, East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
  COMMENTS - Provides project development assistance funds as well as equity investments.
• Aloe Private Equity - click here
  FINANCE TYPE - Private Equities
  SOURCE OF CAPITAL - A range of family and institutional investors
  TECHNOLOGY TYPES - Energy Efficiency, Cleaner Fuels, Bioenergy, Geothermal, Small hydropower, Solar (PV and Thermal), Wind, Fuel Cells
  GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS - West Asia, North Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, Central and South America, North America, Western Europe, South Asia, South East Asia, East Asia
  COMMENTS - We invest between €1M to €50M in companies which offer technologies or solutions which can be considered to be environmentally beneficial. We have offices in Paris, London, Mumbai, Shanghai, Beijing. Our strength is opening markets in Europe, China and India for our portfolio companies
• Amrite Ltd. - click here
  FINANCE TYPE - Private Equities
  TECHNOLOGY TYPES - Solar (PV and Thermal), Wind, Fuel Cells
  GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS - Western Europe
  COMMENTS - Amrite seeks to invest in the development, manufacturing, and distribution of innovative and competitive products that generate energy from renewable sources. They are early stage equity investors interested in assisting entrepreneurs and inventors in the development of a UK dimension to a renewable energy product or process. They are particularly interested in projects that have qualified for EU or other grant aid subject to private matching funding.
• Ardsley Partners Renewable Energy Fund - A global long/ short equity hedge fund dedicated to the Renewable Energy sectors. Ardsley partners is a SEC registered investment advisor that has been managing its long/ short equity flagship fund since 1987. click here
• Claymore/MAC Global Solar Energy ETF (Market, News) tracks an index comprised of 25 global solar companies
• Masdar Clean Tech Fund is a $250 million diversified venture capital investment vehicle that will build a portfolio of clean technology funds, direct/co-investments and joint venture investments.The Fund is made-up of commitments from the following: (i) Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company ("ADFEC"), (ii) Consensus Business Group ("CBG"), (iii) Credit Suisse ("CS") and (iv) Siemens AG. The Fund will develop a portfolio of fund investments, committing approximately $60 million to 3-5 fund managers. The remaining Fund capital will be invested in co-investments alongside fund managers and direct investments in companies sourced by the Fund. The Fund will seek to invest in companies with technologies that are suitable for commercialization in the United Arab Emirates. click here

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Ocean Energy Organizations / Associations

• China New Energy: Ocean Energy
• National Hydropower Association (NHA)
• Ocean Renewable Energy Coalition
• OREG: Ocean Renewable Energy Group
• Renewingindia.org: Tidal Energy

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Renewable and Clean Energy Research Centers

• Asia Pacific Energy Research
• Center for Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy - CEERE offers research, training and educational experiences for graduates
• CERC - Clean Energy Research CentreCERC provides state-of-the-art research facilities for the exploration of clean energy technology.
• EERE: Solar Energy Technologies Program for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Solar Energy Technologies program.
• Energy research Centre of the Netherlands: European and global level. Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN)
• EUREC Agency  - The European Renewable Energy Research Centres Agency.
• Florida Solar Energy Center Information on the renewable energy and energy efficiency research, education, training, and certification activities of the Florida Solar Energy Center.
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Facility of the US Department of Energy (DOE) for renewable energy and energy efficiency research, development and deployment.
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL): Solar Research
• RERL - Renewable Energy Research Laboratory (RERL) Promoting education and research in wind and solar energy conversion technologies.
• RISE - Research Institute for Sustainable Energy Research Institute for Sustainable Energy.
• Schatz Energy Research Center (SERC) Schatz Energy Research Center. Promoting the Use of Clean and Renewable Energy

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