cleantech
n.— «3i partner Marko Maschek said that the renewables sector, or cleantech, as it is known, is a magnet for investors.…Virgin’s Mr Whitehorn knows that there are bargains to be had by buying into small companies with good ideas, and describes many US biofuel outfits as “very much Mom and Pop businesses.”» —“Branson’s grand power strategy” by Michael Dempsey BBC News Sept. 22, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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