According to a survey conducted by Polachi Inc., 90 % of the executives in clean tech sector ndicated they predict growth in the sector to resume in one year or less. Nearly one third (31.2%) of these executives claim that growth has already resumed. Read more in CleanTech Brief.

Many green investors look only at the green ETFs and green stocks quoted on the New York Stock Exchange. In addition, most of the web sites dedicated to ETFs only collect information about the ETFs quoted on NYSE. Today I'll take a short look at the green ETFs quoted on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

Too green investors miss some of the best opportunities, claims an article about Desertec solar project published in Seeking Alpha: Desertec Solar Project: Investors Can't Afford to Be Too Green if They Want to Make Money.

Cleantech is certainly a long-term trend and not a short-term bubble on the stock markets.  Jack Uldrich gives six reasons for the long-term growth of clean and renewable energy in his book. Green Investing. A Guide to Making Money through Environment-Friendly Stocks. The first is the rising cost of oil. Oil is a scarce natural resource [...]

The Claymore/MAC Global Solar Energy Index ETF (NYSE:TAN), is another interesting clean tech ETF. The ETF seeks to present results that correspond generally to the performance of the MAC Global Solar Energy Index. The Index is designed to track companies within certain segments of the solar energy industry: companies that produce solar power equipment and products [...]

The PowerShares Cleantech Portfolio is based on the Cleantech index, which is designed to identify the companies that have the greatest capital appreciation potential. Cleantech products and services, are designed to prevent these problems from occurring in the first place, creating a unique and innovative investment space.