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Clean Tech Forum Speaker – Grant Ferrier – Managing Director, Environmental Business Journal One thing that's not in my bio is I'm a native of Ontario. That should probably be the lead in my bio next time so I'll update it so everybody can know my history. My father was Chief Technical Information Officer for the Atomic Energy Program in Chalk River, from 1955 to 1962, I think so, and that was the place of my birth, was Deep River. And then, when he got a similar job from the American Nuclear Society in '62, that’s when I migrated south. Probably at that point I was walking, but probably not much more than that. Anyways, so it's a pleasure to be back and I think as the…as what's this - of course, the seminar dedicated to the clean tech industry. And that's kind of an emerging and not totally defined term, and as you can see from our two titles of our business publications, both of which you have a sort of sample snap shot in your package, and then there's copies in the back. And also after this event, Merrick's given me your contact information so I'll email some more issues so you can read it two or three times to get the flavour of what we produce. So, we use the term environmental, and the environmental industry which again, back in 1988 when we first published the Environmental Business Journal, that's twenty-four years now, so it's a lot of monthly editions, even defining that industry at that point and covering all of it's various sectors is kind of what we set out to do. And then, we started Climate Change Business Journal, just 3 years ago now, or actually three and a half years ago now, and I'll comment a little bit on how we structured that later in the presentation. Also, we have an annual meeting, principally attended by environmental companies in the San Diego area each year, and we have that in March, so actually the tenth edition of that, as you can see in the dates down below there so… The company itself and the kind of work we do is principally driven by the research we do on all the companies in the various segments of the industry. So each year we'll do pretty detailed, what we would call cell side surveys of revenue generation of environmental companies. And it's a bit U.S. focused, 'cause we have the most access to those, but certainly it's a global footprint, and probably of the revenue analysis we do of about two thousand companies on an annual basis, probably about a quarter of them are outside the United States, so we have a prett
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