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Stuffy Raw Data — Blood, Gore, and GIM

[Wikipedia doesn’t even have a page on David Blood yet.]

YouTube - Al Gore Caught lying Denies that Ken Lay, Goldman ...
Apr 27, 2009 ... Scalise points out that Gore met with Ken Lay, of ENRON-fraud fame circa 1998, ... LLC is none other than David Blood, CEO of Goldman Sachs’ .... queueAl Gore confronte...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH0Ryek7rHk

Great Climategate web page:
http://www.climatedepot.com
[Includes private climategate search engine]

http://www.climatedepot.com/a/593/VideoTranscript-The-OReilly-Factor-features-Climate-Depot-on-Gores-path-to-become-the-first-Carbon-Billionaire
Video/Transcript: The O’Reilly Factor features Climate Depot on Gore’s path to become the first ‘Carbon Billionaire’
Morano: ‘He who controls carbon controls life. It is a bureaucrat’s dream to control carbon dioxide’

10 Questions for Al Gore
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31584

[question 5] Your co-founder with Generation Investment Management is former Goldman Sachs partner David Blood. Goldman Sachs is lobbying for global warming legislation and is a part owner of the Chicago Climate Exchange, where carbon credits from cap-and-trade legislation would be traded. Do you or Generation Investment Management stand to benefit in anyway from these relationships?

David Blood: The wizard behind Generation Management - Nov. 12, 2007
Nov 12, 2007 ... Al Gore serves as chairman of Generation Investment Management, but running day- to-day operations falls to Goldman veteran David Blood.
money.cnn.com/2007/11/11/news/newsmakers/david_blo...

FORA.tv - David Blood: The Case for Sustainable Business
Jan 21, 2008 ... David Blood discusses The Case for Sustainable BusinessSustainability combines the principles of economic growth, environmental stewardship, ...
fora.tv/2008/01/21/David_Blood_Case_for_Sustainabl...

David Mitchell Blood - Home
Seize the Adventure of Success and Global Change with the Captain! ... We are also facing global environmental issues that threaten our future. ...
davidblood.weebly.com

DAVID BLOOD | The National Summit
David Blood is the Senior Partner of Generation Investment Management, a London- headquartered fund management business dedicated to long term investment and ...
www.nationalsummit.org/speaker-blood

David Blood: A Strong COP15 Treaty Will Unleash Innovation & Green ...
Dec 7, 2009 ... COPENHAGEN ? David Blood, the lesser known partner that makes up the ?Blood and Gore? of investment management group Generation Investment ...
earth2tech.com/2009/12/07/david-blood-a-strong-cop

We Need Sustainable Capitalism
Nature does not do bailouts.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122584367114799137.html
By AL GORE and DAVID BLOOD
When greeting old friends after a period of absence, Ralph Waldo Emerson used to ask: “What has become clear to you since we last met?”

What is clear to us and many others is that market capitalism has arrived at a critical juncture. Even beyond the bailouts and recent volatility [snip-and-gag.] [Following mantra: sustainable development, sustainability and long-term value creation, sustainability challenges]

David Blood
http://www.generationim.com/about/team/blood.html

“People and culture are critical to our long-term success at Generation.”
—David Blood, Senior Partner and Co-Founder

Senior Partner [GIM — Generation Investment Management LLP]
David Blood is Senior Partner of Generation Investment Management, a fund management business dedicated to long term investment and integrated sustainability research. Previously, David served as co-CEO and CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. His responsibilities included all aspects of the global business including portfolio management, sales and client service, risk management and infrastructure. David received a B.A. from Hamilton College and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He is on the Board of Hamilton College, Social Finance, New Forests and SHINE; on the Investment Committee of the Acumen Fund and the Advisory Board of Bridges Ventures.

Wikipedia [NOT quotable data, just for research purposes.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Investment_Management

Generation Investment Management LLP (GIM) is a London-based investment management firm with an investment style that blends traditional equity research with a focus on sustainability factors, including social and environmental responsibility and corporate governance.

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is chairman of Generation, and David Blood — previously chief executive of Goldman Sachs Asset Management — is CEO. The pair has given the company its nickname, “Blood and Gore.”

Generation Investment Management LLP is authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in the UK.

Generation has built a global research platform to integrate sustainability research into fundamental equity analysis. The firm focuses on the economic, environmental, social, and governance risks and opportunities that can materially affect a company’s ability to sustain profitability and deliver returns.

History
The November 2004 press release announcing the launch of the firm included the following quote from Gore:

I’m delighted to join David Blood in founding this firm. The issue of sustainability has always been a passion of mine. Helping to establish the competitive business advantages of sustainability in an investment context with this exceptional team is a very exciting challenge.
Transparency, innovation, eco-efficiency, investing in the community, nurturing and motivating employees, managing long-term risks, and embracing long-term opportunities are integral parts of a company’s enduring capability to create value. Business leaders who align their business strategy and technical development with sustainability and social accountability will deliver superior long-term results to shareholders.
Generation began investing client money in April 2005, and has offices in London, New York and Sydney. The firm currently employs 36 people. Generation’s Advisory Board, convened by Gore, helps set Generation’s long-term thematic research agenda into global sustainability and renewable energy issues. Past areas of focus have included climate change, poverty and development, ecosystem services and biodiversity, water scarcity, pandemics, demographics and migration, and urbanization.

In November 2007, Generation and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) announced a global collaboration to “find, fund and accelerate green business, technology and policy solutions with the greatest potential to help solve the current climate crisis.”[1] As part of the collaboration, prominent KPCB Partner John Doerr joined Generation’s Advisory Board.

[edit] Controversy
Online commentators and think-tank policy analysts have suggested that Al Gore has created a conflict of interest by working with GIM and simultaneously being the spokesperson for action on global warming.[2][3] The Competitive Enterprise Institute believes that the government policies Gore advocated to the U.S. Senate in January 2009 “will make him and his friends extremely wealthy at the expense of consumers.”[2] Such criticism over this alleged conflict of interest has been made as early as March 2007.[3]

GIM also owns a 2.98% stake in the Climate Exchange[4], which in turn owns the Chicago Climate Exchange. This gives Al Gore a financial bias towards promoting global warming control through the trading of carbon credits.[5]

[edit] Building energy efficiency
A significant amount of this article or section’s content may actually relate to Al Gore. See coatrack articles and content forking for details. (May 2010)

According to the GIM website they have sponsored a full energy efficiency audit for each employee’s residence, including suggestions for ways they can make home energy improvements. In February 2007, a conservative think tank cited a report by the Nashville Electric Service that showed Gore used an average 16,000 kilowatt hours a month for an average monthly bill of $1,206 in 2006. The typical Nashville home uses about 1,300 kilowatt hours.[6] Since then, Gore “has completed a host of improvements to make the home more energy efficient, and a building-industry group has praised the house as one of the nation’s most environmentally friendly.”[7] Kim Shinn of the US Green Building Council said of the renovations: “Short of tearing it down and starting anew, I don’t know how it could have been rated any higher” for sustainable design.”[8]

[edit] Partnerships
The Alliance for Climate Protection (Repower America)
World Resources Institute
Natural Resources Defense Council [9]
The Climate Project
Mistra Foundation [10]
[edit] Investments
Ausra
New Resource Bank [11]
[edit] Funding opportunities
Generation Investment Management suggest use the funding opportunities from:

CleanTech Venture Network [12] (Ernst & Young)
Investors´ Circle (USA) [13]
[edit] See also
Sustainable capitalism
[edit] References
^ “Generation Investment Management and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Create International Alliance to Accelerate Global Climate Solutions”. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Generation Investment Management. 2007-11-12. http://www.generationim.com/media/pdf-generation-kpcb-12-11-07.pdf. Retrieved 2007-11-13.
^ a b http://cei.org/node/21602
^ a b http://wizbangblog.com/content/2007/03/03/al-gore-inconvenient-profit.php
^ http://www.climateexchangeplc.com/investor-relations/shares-in-issue-top-10-holders
^ http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22663
^ Associated Press (2007-12-13). “The Associated Press: Gore Completes Renovations to Tenn. Home”. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hcDkxa5vPOYsh-mZHZdeBShhlZcAD8TGQVP80. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
^ Fox News (2007-12-14). “Gore Completes Renovations to Tenn. Home”. http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Dec14/0,4670,GoreTennesseeHome,00.html. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
^ CNN (2007-10-12). “Gore Makes Nashville home more “green””. http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/13/gore.home.ap/. Retrieved 2008-01-08.
^ http://www.nrdc.org/
^ http://www.mistra.org
^ http://www.newresourcebank.com
^ http://cleantech.com/
^ http://www.investorscircle.net/

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