Description:

A comprehensive guide that addresses green investing from several important angles.

Between global warming and overflowing landfills, the environment is constantly in the news. And while these problems persist, their solution can create vast opportunities. Because solving any of the half-dozen or so looming environmental crises is worth billions, a torrent of capital is flowing into this field, funding new energy sources, benign techniques for managing various waste streams, and even new agricultural methods. Cleaning Up will show investors how to capitalize on this ever-increasing flow of capital to clean technologies. It will provide an overview of the most promising new technologies and commonsense investment advice on separating winners from losers and building a portfolio of tomorrow's most promising "green-tech" stocks. Along the way, readers will discover the new lease on life that clean technologies offer modern industrial economies, and of course, the fortunes to be made by investors who find the right green investments. 

Table of Contents:
Foreword.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Part I. Overview.
Chapter 1. Clean Tech - This Time It's for Real.
Chapter 2. We Came, We Saw, We Trashed the Place.
Part II. Clean Energy.
Chapter 3. Fossil Fuels Fiasco.
Chapter 4. Solar Power - From Social Statement to Serious Solution.
Chapter 5. Wind - No Breakthroughs Needed.
Chapter 6. Geothermal - The Heat beneath Our Feet.
Chapter 7. Transportation - Green Machines.
Chapter 8. Energy Storage - The Key to a Clean-Tech Takeover.
Chapter 9. Biofuels - Miles per Acre.
Chapter 10. The Hydrogen Economy - A Dream Deferred.
Chapter 11. Emissions Trading - Climate Change Capitalism.
Chapter 12. Smart Grid - The New Wired World.
Part III. Other Clean Technologies.
Chapter 13. Water - Liquid Gold.
Chapter 14. Green Building - Sunny and Cool.
Chapter 15. Agriculture - Eight Billion Mouths to Feed.
Chapter 16. Green Materials - Lighter, Stronger, Cleaner.
Chapter 17. Pollution Control - Trash Is a Terrible Thing to Waste.
Part IV. Investing in a Green Boom.
Chapter 18. Bubbles and Bear Markets.
Chapter 19. Green Mutual Funds.
Chapter 20. Clean Tech in Bite-Sized Pieces.
Chapter 21. Short Candidates - Who Loses When Clean Tech Wins?
Chapter 22. How to Trade Foreign Stocks.
Chapter 23. Breakthroughs - Tomorrow's Game-Changers.
Chapter 24. Creating a Research Program.
About the Author.
Index.