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The past decade saw investors do a tap dance to the tune of Boom and Bust. First there was the dot-com bubble and the slew of other technological breakthroughs that came with it. Then we witnessed the supposedly invincible housing market complete a jaw-dropping boom-bust cycle. The young 21st century even delivered a notable financial bubble, as well as its inevitable bust.

Sidling along in the background were the seedlings of an industry on the verge of taking flight — alternative-energy technology.

Despite a drop in the overall volume of venture-capital deals last year, investments in clean-technology companies totalled US$8.4-billion, up nearly 40% from 2007, says a 2008 report by Cleantech Group, a San Francisco-based trade organization. In the third quarter of 2008 alone, venture capitalists poured US$2.65-billion into clean technology, a quarterly record. In the fourth quarter, they invested US$1.7-billion.

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t’s that time of the year again, where we look back at the year that was and look forward to the year ahead. We formally launched Logistics Viewpoints on January 26, 2009 and thanks to all of you, our readership today is almost 5X greater than it was in February, and we’re getting an average of about 2 new email subscribers per day. What were you all reading? Below are the top ten postings (in terms of page views) so far this year:

1. Crocs: From Revolutionary Supply Chain to Almost Bankrupt
2. Walmart’s ‘Win-Play-Show’ Assortment Strategy
3. UPS Getting a Bailout (So Says FedEx)
4. A Google Approach to Supply Chain Management
5. Is it possible to accurately calculate Total Landed Costs?
6. Video Game Technology Comes to Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) Market
7. Performance-based Outsourcing in Logistics
8. Who Is The Best Logistics Service Provider (3PL)?
9. Explaining the Value of Logistics to the CEO
10. Initial Thoughts on Walmart’s Sustainable Product Index

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