The GreenTech 21st Century Master Fund focused on companies engaged in alternative energy, clean technologies, environmental infrastructure and services, agricultural and natural resources.

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The life science sectors in the United States are still robust, and cleantech--including clean energy, and environmental and green products and services--is providing an entirely new and promising channel for venture money.

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The need to increase access to clean, efficient, affordable and reliable modern energy services for balancing the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable choices is nowadays worldwide recognized.

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Each scientist or engineer is employed or funded by the Federal government and includes members of the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Interior, Veterans Affairs and the Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and National Science Foundation.

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Small business has historically been a powerful engine of job creation and yet it is shying away from one of the biggest growth opportunities of our time: the Clean Economy, broadly defined here to include not only renewable energy, public mass transit, and waste treatment but all goods and services with environmental benefits.

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The program, launched in September 2001, focuses on reform of electric power markets, the geopolitical consequences of newly emerging global natural gas markets, energy services for the world's poor, and managing climate change and other environmental consequences of modern energy systems.

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The Obama administration has unleashed a massive new regulatory push, with costly new health care regulations, a major expansion by the Environmental Protection Agency that will raise the costs of energy, and a slew of yet unwritten financial services regulations mandated by the Dodd-Frank reform bill.

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