The future of energy

LONDON, England (CNN) — While many of the world’s best business brains are exercising themselves over the current global banking and equities crisis, there is another issue which has the potential to dominate our lives far more in the longer term — energy.

Fossil fuels will not last forever, and the race is on to find viable replacements which will keep the globe moving by the time oil, coal and gas stocks run dry, or at least before they become ruinously expensive.


Innovation is at the heart of business, so it’s no surprise to see business schools taking the lead in planning for a post-oil world.

This week, Judge Business School at the UK’s Cambridge University held a pioneering conference intended to get the best minds in ecological entrepreneurship together and swapping ideas, not to mention business cards.

The three day event, Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society, which ended on Wednesday, brought together international experts on tackling climate change to present and listen to the latest research and ideas.

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