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Dave Zgodzinski

The Green Miner

Contributor since: 10 Sep 2012

Dave Zgodzinski

Dave Zgodzinski is the editor of the Green Miner newsletter and thegreenminer.com web site.  The Green Miner is dedicated to searching out valuable investments in renewable energy.

Dave was a petroleum geologist for a number of years in western Canada, working on oil and gas wells from southern Saskatchewan to the Arctic islands. After leaving the high pressure of the oil patch, he moved on to the quiet, laid back life of a stockbroker. After surviving the crash of '87 and the slowdown that followed, Dave moved on from selling intangibles to tangibles.  He worked as an equipment broker selling used machinery of all types. 

In 1995 Dave latched on to the early trend of the Internet. He began yet another career as a freelance journalist writing about business and investing on the Internet. He wrote regular columns for Internet World magazine, The Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette, Silicon Investor and CNBC.com.

Following the tech bubble crash of 2000, Dave began working for the Kitco.com web site – the most popular gold web site in the world. The price of gold was $250 when Dave began selling advertising on the Kitco.com web site. Dave developed two sister sites for Kitco – Kitcosilver.com and Kitcometals.com. He left the Kitco sites in 2011 to concentrate on the Green Miner.

Latest articles from Dave

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    Published 27 January 2014 | viewed 9,483 times

    A year that starts off with line-ups at the legal marijuana store has got to be a good year for green in general.Old timers, who…

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    Published 09 September 2013 | viewed 7,791 times

    War by social media. Should the US bomb Syria? - Like or dislike. The US, as a social media nation, has thousands of points of…

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    Published 15 July 2013 | viewed 8,390 times

    The price of oil is subjective. It depends on viscosity, sulphur content, location and many other factors like Middle Eastern politics. The price of West…

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    Published 15 April 2013 | viewed 7,222 times

    Silver is the underdog of the precious metals and it has more bite, more beta than the others. It jumps higher and dives lower. Silver…

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    Published 01 April 2013 | viewed 10,829 times

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  • How the Mining Sector Benefits from the Switch to Renewable Energy

    Published 19 March 2013 | viewed 12,844 times

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    Published 04 March 2013 | viewed 6,479 times

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    Published 05 February 2013 | viewed 6,478 times

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    Published 22 January 2013 | viewed 4,475 times

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    Published 17 December 2012 | viewed 6,119 times

    Chinese Solar StocksThere was a revival in Chinese solar stocks last week. On Wednesday alone, many of these stocks went up 10% to 20% in…

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    Published 04 December 2012 | viewed 28,225 times

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    Published 19 November 2012 | viewed 8,207 times

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  • Microinverters - Making Inroads in Solar Energy

    Published 19 November 2012 | viewed 4,754 times

    Solar energy is converted by photovoltaic cells into DC – direct current electricity. Our household appliances run on alternating current – AC. So DC current…

  • Elections and Electrons

    Published 05 November 2012 | viewed 10,219 times

    The election on Tuesday could shape the deployment of renewable energy in the US for the next several years. It’s peculiar that renewable energy has…

  • Nightmare on Electric Vehicle Street

    Published 23 October 2012 | viewed 18,094 times

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  • The Art of Solar War

    Published 09 October 2012 | viewed 9,661 times

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    Published 12 September 2012 | viewed 11,594 times

    I had a neighbour who had a method for market timing. It was physical.She told me that she knew it was time to sell a…

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