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It’s Earth Day and I am feeling so blessed to be living on this incredible planet of ours.

Although we can gripe about pollution or worry about O-Zone layers, depleting water supplies and so many other things wrong in our world, there is so much more to be grateful for. The amazing way the sun rises every morning, only to be followed by the moon each night.

I recently went for a yacht ride on the full moon to Oyster Rocks. Just a 20 minute ride from Karachi, this island has a beautiful view of Manora and Karachi and we climbed to the top quite easily. Arranged by Neshmia Ahmed, we …

On June 26, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 2454, the historic American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES). Should the Senate pass a bill and the President sign it into law, the resulting U.S. federal cap-and-trade market would create an estimated six billion CO2 emission allowances annually1. This will follow numerous CO2 emission cap-and-trade markets launched in the past six years including the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme in 2005, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) in 2009 and the Chicago Climate Exchange® in 2003.

As the EU, the U.S…

As President Obama calls on Congress to pass a Cap and Trade bill that regulates greenhouse gas emissions, the US stands on the brink of launching the largest commodities market in history. The US emits roughly 7.2 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases every year and that number continues to grow. Investors are finding ways to play the ‘green movement,’ such as solar, wind and clean-coal technology. Beyond the renewable energy market, the voluntary carbon market presents a compelling investment opportunity. Here in the US, a private voluntary cap and trade market has existed in the US sin…

We hear these words from every direction these days. What can homeowners do beyond resetting the thermostat? Many focus initially on alternative energy sources such as solar. While solar, geothermal and even pellet boilers are possible pathways to reducing energy use, these choices are quite expensive compared to the cost of meeting a higher energy conservation standard during the building process. Homeowners, builders and government officials seem to have forgotten the maxim: the cheapest energy is energy never used. The first step to addressing high fuel bills should be energy conservatio…