I remember an interview with a top scientist at Intel who was nearing his retirement at the time of the Interview. When asked what he would choose as a field to work in, if he were 25 now. He said categorically that any technology relating to environment protection

From then on I have been particularly looking at news relating to businesses in that sphere. VC funding has started to flow in to such businesses , recent one being Pionetics Inc., a San Carlos, Calif.-based provider of water purification solutions, has raised $6.4 million in Series C funding.

After reading Third Wave by Alvin Toffler where he clearly says that environment sensitivity will percolate to a lot of sections of society and will therefore have a tremendous demand for products and services relating to that area, I feel Pionetics and such other companies serve as the harbinger to the multibillion environmental industry

Link : www.pionetics.com