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Toronto,  giant city larger than Chicago by a  few million people, moves everyone around on a subway system which reminds me of the Loop.  But easier, convenient, fast, super clean and efficient.  Yes, I said clean, we’re talking about civil Canada here.  However, the traffic in TO reminds me of Los Angeles except the out the window visuals- it’s really cold, there’s snow and icey patches that lead to accidents… The difference is in the walkers, clad in professional pea coats (DC style), they stand in bar lines on Saturday nights concerned about freezing fingers, toes and noses… (Nothing compared to Montreal…)  Toronto has it all, positive banker mentality, operations vs. finance, American banks are in crap, job interviews, expensive condos, Canadian political discussions (coalition government?  must put it to a vote), savvy, a slightly slumping housing market (buy now, property is usually really expensive) and way too many signs telling people what not to do.  But it’s the most amazing, diverse, dynamic city.  You should go and I’ll hold my tongue and not bash it Montreal style (just like Michigan bashes Ohio, it’s our job).

Here are some fantastic money making green business ideas to start your 2009:

Carbon dioxide eating cement:  Supposedly cement manufacturing produces 5% of overall global carbon emissions .  This new cement idea is carbon negative, actually helping to reduce the overall carbon dioxide levels in the air by eating it.  Delicious, thank you British engineers!

MIT freshman Ben Gulak, from Toronto interestingly enough, invented the UNO at MIT.  Kind of a motorcycle but electric and uses two wheels side by side instead of front and back.  Very very cool Ben.

Toyota and a solar powered green car.  Enough $aid.  And finally,  news for the province of Bihar in India (think, poor, rural communities, family farming, many Biharis leave for Nepal and other provinces to work as help… but the Buddha hung out there so it’s an interesting place to visit).  Manoj Sinha and Charles Ransler teamed up with another Bihari named Gyanesh Pandey (Ganesh- elephant headed God of luck, money and travelers) and together they’ve developed a method that uses agricultrual waste to produce electricity.  300-500 houses get power for 8 to 10 hours a day based on their portable looking system.  Good one guys!!

The Husk Power System, currently incubated in the Uof Texas business development center in Austin (Darden School of Business), creates small-scale power systems, developed for certain segments of society, but will help us all.  Find out more, invest, help bring us into the future.

Happy New Year everyone!

I’m going going back back to Cali Cali… – BIG