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The Magazine for the New Economy

The New Oil: October 2011

The politics of abundance: game changing technologies that hold the promise of solutions to resource shortages, energy security and a universal desire for a quality of life that includes clean air and water.

Win-Win: Algae Cleans CO2 and Produces Bio-Crude

The Tarong Power Plant, in Queensland, Australia, must reduce carbon emissions from their stacks to meet utility standards. In an unusual partnership, the power plant hired MBD Energy to grow algae in order to sequester CO2.

OriginOil Plans to Disrupt the Oil Industry

Lighting Assembly for 200 Gallon Mid Sized Prototype
Origin Oil’s goal is far from ordinary–they’ve set their sights on creating a way to replace petroleum oil altogether.
How? That would be a new process for extracting oil from algae that cleans and uses less water, while creating energy from hydrogen during the process. But their projects [...]

Corporate Investing in a Time of Record Cash

How to invest in an evolving economy?
As businesses — many of whom have record levels of cash on hand — look for new opportunities, readers and experts chime in on where to put corporate investments.

What’s Next?: January 2012

Companies, readers and analysts had a lot to say about what happened in 2011 and what it means for 2012. Read the best of the reader’s responses, along with interviews with Panasonic, Mohr Davidow, Jones Lang LaSalle, Duke Energy, Acorn Energy, and Advantage for Analysts.

Vision and Planning: November 2011

For a wide range of businesses, the green economy continues to be stalled behind a lack of vision and a supporting plan. In this issue we look at a long term plan, two businesses creating new markets, and a mass movement that has lost its way.