Bloomsbury, the energy transition and environmental investor, is now thirty years old. In 1993, it was registered on 5th May, then bought off-the-shelf by Peter Hollands and Barbara Sotowicz on 3rd June and its name changed to Bloomsbury Minerals Economics on 11th June. It originated in analysis of ore and metals markets, then from 2001 added mathematical models of base metals’ cash prices and forward spreads, for industry and hedge fund advisory work. Now, age thirty, Bloomsbury has evolved into a diversified investment company mostly focused on energy transition and environmentally regenerative commercial businesses: (i) research, data, consultancy & software on mines’ energy use and sources, carbon footprint, water use, drought and flood risk (ii) forestry FinTech; (iii) macro-algae cultivation and processing into agricultural bio-stimulants and methane-reducing cattle-feed (iv) also rather separately ore and metals price modelling and other SaaS, including software that measures return on investment in marketing spend and branding. New investments continue to be added around one per six months. Directors Peter Hollands, Barbara Sotowicz, Martin Hollands and Simon Benney. Subsidiaries Bloomsbury Natural Capital and Bloomsbury Information Capital; associate company Metal Price Analytics (Director Adam Sotowicz). Website www.bloomsburyminerals.com
Cascadia Seaweed secures $1.5 million funding from CICE
Cascadia Seaweed, the largest ocean cultivator of seaweed in Canada, has secured funding support from the B.C. Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy to fast-track the commercialization