Where to Invest – From Guest Blogger Jacob Silver

If there is contract enforcement and money to do a Green Energy project in Turkey or Mali, it makes good financial sense to do it. Of course, as an American, it is more than embarrassing to have a government reluctant to act, and a system with disincentives in its corporate tax structure and patent laws. The patent law issue is separate, but it makes a lot of sense to get that law changed to promote innovation without hindrance. And the government should not use corporations to raise revenue. Corporations should simply pay those fees which compensates public action on their behalf, including infrastructure, security (including courts), and whatever environmental cleanup costs there are, if any. But these are political matters, which should not be relevant to immediate business decisions. But the current situation in the USA is that the most rational business decisions will be about projects in Turkey or Mali.

2GreenEnergy – Live from the Lincoln Center

Greetings from the Empire Hotel, right across the street from the Lincoln Center on New York’s West Side.

Today’s meeting with rewnable energy legend Bill Paul was amazing.  I’d have to go a long way back to find a time that I learned as much in three short hours.  Hate to use cliche’s, but it was truly like drinking water from a firehose. In brief, we planned a collaboration that will help clean energy investors make better sense of this world that seems to be changing so dramatically every day.

More meetings tomorrow and Wednesday, then off to Bermuda.

Happy Thanksgiving

PhotobucketAs I wrote to a friend recently:

Thanksgiving is actually my very favorite holiday; I love what it stands for: take a moment, take stock of yourself, be grateful for who you are and what you have, and take time to thank the people who contributed.

When I get up Thanksgiving morning I always call my parents and tell them THANK YOU. And they always say, “Oh, Craig, you don’t have to say that.”

But I do.