Mark Townsend Cox is the founder and partner in NEF Advisors, LLC, a clean energy consultancy based in New York City. This emerged from the first US based renewable energy hedge fund, the New Energy Fund LP, investing in public and private equities focused on the emerging sustainable energy technology market. The fund was launched in December 2004, although the first steps in his move to sustainability came much earlier. His initial experience of renewable energy came as a teacher in Niger...