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If you're looking for excellent Year in Review analysis or thoughts about 2009, check out these posts by some of the web's best bloggers.

Here's to a happy, productive, and propserous New Year!



Howard Lindzon

Fred Wilson

Upside Trader

Roger Ehrenberg

Brad Feld

Guy Kawasaki

Nathaniel Whittemore (from change.org)

Paul Kedrosky

Beth Kanter

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Have A Very Happy, Safe , Peaceful and Prosperous New Year !

Happy New Year to all my readers…here’s to a green, clean, and prosperous New Year to all of you!

In that vein, I want to point you to a great website that has all sorts of great ideas, articles, and plans to help you and your family live as green as you want to:  Lighter Footstep.

Some of the great articles you may find on this site are (among MANY others):

• How to Plan a “Green the Family” Meeting
• How to Green Your Carpet Cleaning
• How to Become a Composting Guru
• The Simple Secret to Making a Greener World

On that note, I’ll let you go and enjoy your New Year’s Eve.  Have fun, enjoy your friends and/or family, and be careful!  Talk to you in 2009!

Namaste,
A. Caleb Hartley

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Good riddance 2008.

It was a strange year, with many ups and downs for me professionally and personally.

I had knee surgery in January 2008, shortly after one of my largest long holdings, First Solar, took a nose dive. Then my Patriots blew a 16-0 season with a loss to the New York Giants in the Super Bowl. I spent a lot of time in DC rather than home in Philadelphia, which kept me away from family too much. I tried to make change happen where change wasn't wanted and made some foolish decisions.

But I went to India, met some spectacular social entrepreneurs there and around the world, and spoke at conferences from Aspen to Salzburg. I had a poem in the American Poetry Review and did two phenomenal readings -- one in New York at the start of the year and at the University of Pennsylvania towards the end. And I got back to Alaska after ten years away, which renewed my soul.

I also built a team at Ashoka, where I was vice president for global development, and helped put together a major partnership with the Gates Foundation around entrepreneurial agricultural solutions in Africa and India.

Then I left that gig to start my own green energy investing biz. At the time oil was approaching $145/barrel and people were hot on the idea. In a matter of months, oil had shaved off 100 bucks and people began asking me "Does oil at 40 kill your start-up?"

A helluva year.

2008 was a year of adjustments, ambiguity, and ambition.

2009 will be a year of adjustments, ambiguity, and ambition, too.

What will be different?

For starters, I'm going to approach 2009 on my terms and with even more dedication to pursuing my idea.

I'm going to stay positive and focused and take the steps necessary to get this thing off the ground. Sure, I will make some adjustments to my portfolio, but I will keep focused on the long-term potential I know is there for clean tech, green energy, and energy efficiency. (And I'll keep trying to contribute to the excellent conversation going on over at stocktwits.com)

I'm also going to get both more global and more local, connecting with entrepreneurs and projects around the world, as I have in the past, but also more locally through things like Philly StartUp Leaders and other local networks.

I will keep trying to improve this blog, exploring the new green economy with a skeptical eye and a passionate heart.

Oh, and I'm going to find a publisher for my poetry collection, finally. (So if you're reading this, publishers, ping me an offer.)

2009 -- bring it on!

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Welcome to the December 29th, 2008 edition of All Things Eco.

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Are you feeling it, too?

I admit I broke a lot of my own rules this holiday season ... and it ain't over yet!

The truth is, it is entirely possible to have a Christmas with no guilt. It just takes some STRONG willpower and an understanding family to help you. (As you may deduce, I have neither!)

Bloated and depressed, I now turn to the following resources for help out of this funk:

Healthwalk - the newsletters are packed with useful information

Wellsphere - a lovely community where you can share your goals and setbacks

Naturally Savvy - be sure to check out their great article on flu fighting (not to be confused with Foo Fighting)

Beyond Body Mind Spirit - the Virtual Spa is pretty groovy

GOOP - Gwyneth Paltrow's newsletter this week offers some ways to find zen around the holidays

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Earthlings, we hope and wish all the citizens of this beautiful planet Happy Holidays!

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May Your Days Be Merry And Bright… Christmas Blessings to You and Yours!

Wishing You And Your Loved One’s A Very Merry Christmas!

Two Christmases ago, I published this email from Santa, which arrived on the night before the night before Christmas. Readers had so much fun with it, I thought we'd share it again.

Enjoy! And Have a Happy Holiday.

Scott, aka The Green Skeptic
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I received this email from Jolly, or not so Jolly St. Nick tonight:

TO: Global Warming Skeptics
FROM: Santa Claus
DATE: A few nights before Xmas
SUBJECT: My Christmas List
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This is Santa, writing from the North Pole. Soon I'll be gathering all the toys for all the good little girls and boys and packing them in my sleigh to begin our journey, our night of nights.

The reindeer, however, are starting to complain about hoof-rot. Apparently, they've been standing around in too much slush. This has put me in a decidedly prickly mood this Christmas.

You know me; I'm not a single-issue guy. I believe that as long as you are good, and I mean good for goodness' sake, you deserve some slack on the other stuff. I'm an equal opportunity distributor. I know whether you've been bad or good or just plain evil. You also know I'm not one to discriminate against one group of people or another, believers or non-believers.

But this year is different. This year, I'm making a few changes to my list. I'm checking it twice and have decided that the naughty include any one of you out there who do not believe in global warming. All you climate change skeptics out there, you are on the naughty list this year.

Oh, you know who you are. And I've got one special gift for you: Nothing but COAL. You like the stuff so much -- and it's such a big part of what's leading to climate change -- you might as well have bags and bags of it and nothing more.

Make no mistake. Global warming is happening. You don't have to show me any scientific reports, although some nifty ones have shown up in my email box lately, sent to me from the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

No, you don't have to convince me; I'm a believer. All I have to do is look out my window to my back yard, what's left of it! It's a soupy mess out there.

We usually have a good bit of ice up here at the North Pole -- and early. That's important, too; you see, every year the elves and I construct a temporary workshop up here where we make the toys and assemble the other goodies. The earlier the ice, the sooner we get started.

Although I have figured out a way to deliver the entire shipment of gifts on my list in one night, I still haven't perfected the manufacturing process. I can't speed it up. (Some of that I blame on the unions.) We need all the ice we can get up here for there is no solid ground.

But this year, the ice cover was the lowest it's been in almost 30 years. And at least one of those science groups studying this stuff tells me that, according to their models, by 2040, we'll have mostly open water up here. (They sent me this short animation clip, which sends chills up my spine: Arctic Ice Melt.)

Mrs. Claus has even started looking for Houseboats on Craig's List!

So, dear boys and girls, you better not pout or cry or whine or deny climate change any longer. And I'm telling you why: because climate change is coming to town. Time's a wasting. We need to do something about this now, before it's too late. Or before I have to move all of my operations to the South Pole!

Here's wishing a carbon-neutral Christmas to all, and to all a good night.

S. Claus, North Pole

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