With a surge of interest in renewable energy comes many new developments that delve into ways of harnessing that energy. Atlantic Wind & Solar Inc. is happy to announce the opening of its $3 million 500 KW utility scale power plant in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The rooftop installation of 1,980 solar panels is anticipated to produce 12,600 megawatt hours of power to Ontario over the next twenty years.

Atlantic Wind and Solar Inc. makes utility scale sustainable energy plants all over the world including Canada, South America, South Asia, and the Caribbean. The company’s president and CEO John Wilkes stated, “Each project completion further confirms our ability to convert established relationships of like-minded people and organizations into positive revenue-oriented projects that benefit our shareholder base and the environment. We continue to ensure that our product offering is competitive and have aggressive expansion plans, including strategic acquisitions and Joint Ventures in areas that fit our business model.”

Canada is a world leader in renewable energy development with 16.9% of its primary energy coming from that avenue. The number one renewable energy source of Canada is moving water, making up 59% of the energy supply. Canada is the third largest producer of hydroelectricity in the world with wind power coming in second at 1.6%. Solar power is quickly developing into another renewable energy source option. The country has a large land mass with varied physical characteristics, making it a viable area for sustainable energy production and growth.

What is renewable energy? It’s simply the energy taken from natural resources that can be replenished over time. Some examples of natural resources are sunlight, moving water, and wind. We can use that energy to produce electricity, transportation fuels, and industrial heat.

Specifically, solar energy comes from the sun as heat and light to provide electricity. This natural source can be harnessed in areas with greater access to sunlight with the installation of solar panels. With these panels, particles of light (photons) bump electrons free from atoms to create electricity. There are tons of photovoltaic cells in the panels to convert sunlight into electricity.

Canada especially has great solar potential as its access to the sun is comparable with the world’s largest cities. Half of Canada’s residential areas could be converted into solar platforms for renewable energy.

Fortunately, there are many pros to using solar energy. First, energy from the sun is free and in the long term these energy costs will be less than fossil fuel as rates continue to increase. Second, there is no waste or emissions from using solar power, making it an environmentally friendly option. Lastly, we have the sun for another 5 billion years so chances of running out of solar energy are slim.

For more information on Atlantic Wind and Solar, visit www.atlanticwindandsolar.com

Stem cell technology’s real untilled and still extremely fertile soil is the therapeutics market, where injected cells could help repair damaged tissue systems and thus effectively treat many conditions, including degenerative ones, for which the current standard of care is often palliative at best. Dealing with the underlying cause of a given condition, through the gradual replacement and/or reinforcement of an impaired tissue system or organ using injected stem cells, represents a true paradigm shift in how we think about treating many of today’s most debilitating diseases. However, to tap into the rich spoils of this as yet largely undiscovered country, requires a mix of technologies and logistical capabilities, of which tragically few companies today can seriously boast.

One company that doesn’t need to boast, as it has clearly achieved both the capacity to proprietarily differentiate adult human cells by chemically stimulating unfertilized donor eggs, as well as provide long-term, storable, high-quality stem cell product for real-world, commercial-scale therapeutic applications, is International Stem Cell Corp. At the core of the company’s pipeline of rapidly emerging therapeutics is its parthenogenesis technology, whereby the company can create large batches of pluripotent (able to develop into any type of cell), human parthenogenetic stem cells (hpSCs), and do so in a completely ethical fashion. The company’s proprietary stimulation and differentiation technology also helps resolve the one major stumbling block facing stem cell therapies, immune rejection by the host. The company’s ability to make large batches of adult human cells from stem cells that are either specifically immune-matched to the donor, or immune-matched to the general population, gives ISCO an open road to therapy development, and the company has the testing to back up its technology too.

ISCO’s nine-month, 300 subject rodent model safety study, testing the tumorigenicity (propensity to promote tumor formation/growth) of its human neural stem cells (hpNSCs), which have been developed for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease (PD), was submitted back in July as part of the build up to phase 1/2a human clinical trials in Australia. This study followed up on earlier results by ISCO with its hpNSCs, showing no tumors in any of the animals receiving neural stem cell transplants. The demonstrated ability of injected hpNSCs to create new neurons that produce the primary neurotransmitter, dopamine (with whose falloff PD is causally associated), as well as exhibit a neuroprotectant effect on surviving neurons makes this technology a potential gold mine if human clinical trials yield good results.

Given that PD is a progressive, degenerative disorder, and that the current standard of care, oral levodopa (L-dopa), is associated with progressively worse periods where symptoms manifest themselves fully, called “off” periods, there hasn’t really been a good long-term solution for addressing the unmet needs of a majority of PD patients. This majority of PD patients, for whom the current standard of care so often feels like they are just postponing the inevitable succumbing to the disease’s impairments, are plagued by the frequency and intensity of relapse periods increasing as the disease progresses using L-dopa. ISCO isn’t trying to mask the problem chemically with synthetic dopamine, the company has developed injectable replacement neurons to treat the underlying brain tissue degeneration, and hopefully actually restore full functionality to the patient.

According to a new study out by research and consulting firm, GlobalData, the PD treatment market for just the U.S., Brazil, Japan, and the major EU member states is on track to hit upwards of $4.7 billion by 2022. However, newly FDA-approved market entrants, such as Xadago (safinamide) – a drug which blocks the primary enzyme which break down dopamine, from Zambon and its SIX Swiss Exchange-traded partner Newron Pharmaceuticals (SWX: NWRN) – or Impax Laboratories’ (NASDAQ: IPXL) RYTARY, an extended-release oral capsule formulation of carbidopa-levodopa – still do not address the underlying causes of the disease. It is up to a company like ISCO to bring forth a real therapeutic treatment option here, with ethical stem cell technology that can actually regenerate the damaged tissue system(s). With PD, given its progressive nature, it is not unthinkable that periodic injections, or simply a thorough course of therapeutic treatments with hpNSCs, could restore the patient to full functionality.

A good indicator of this potential is ISCO’s parallel hpNSC therapy pipeline for stroke, where preclinical data indicates that injections administered even several weeks after the stroke could actually reverse the typically associated functional deficits completely. The alternative to such a therapy in the case of a stroke is often grueling physical therapy, required in order to get back or re-learn lost motor function. But with ISCO’s treatment option on the table, stroke could be handled in the future with a simple injection regimen, even well after the initial stroke hospitalization. The tremendous potential of hpNSC therapy in strokes speaks volumes about what that same therapy can do for PD patients, given that both are maladies of the CNS, and that the therapy functions by replacing damaged neurological tissue.

To dig deeper, visit www.internationalstemcell.com

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GrowBLOX Sciences, a biopharmaceutical company with state-of-the-art technologies in plant biology and cultivation designed to produce consistent medicinal cannabis, today reports that the first of its four planned Cultivation Labs – this one a 30,000-square-foot facility in Las Vegas – is scheduled to open by the end of the fourth quarter. In the news release regarding the upcoming opening, the company posted several pictures of its Cultivation Lab (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/growblox-sciences-announces-first-four-130000171.html).

Packed with cutting-edge technology, the Las Vegas Cultivation Lab will feature fully contained clean room structures equipped with state-of-the-art lighting, air handling, humidity control, CO2 management, irrigation and fertigation. A centralized automated system and remote access controls will operate these important features, enabling for a high level of precision environmental control and monitoring essential for the collection of new data that will be invaluable for the medical cannabis industry.

When it comes to production, at full capacity the Las Vegas Cultivation Lab will produce more than 7,000 pounds of certified medical grade raw material annually. It will feature the precision of a laboratory and the size of a greenhouse. As the first of four planned laboratories and at full capacity, the company projects the Las Vegas Cultivation Lab will generate $10 million-$12 million in revenue per annum.

“Our flagship laboratory, the Las Vegas Cultivation Lab, is only the first of four Cultivation Labs being built. As such, it is the standard bearer for the cutting-edge technological growing of medical grade cannabis, and is a timely address to the problem of inadequate supplies of medical grade cannabis. GrowBLOX Sciences continues to be a frontrunner in the medical cannabis industry — and this is only the beginning of great things to come,” chairman of the board and CEO Craig Ellins stated in the news release.

For more information visit www.growblox.com

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Cherubim Interests, a development-stage alternative construction and real estate development company, today introduced its updated corporate website (www.CherubimInterests.com). Built from the ground up, the website is designed to better communicate ongoing progress and provide thorough descriptions of the company’s products and operations, key leadership, market opportunities, and more.

The new Investors Center features the company’s news releases, stock information, regulatory filings, and an in-depth investor presentation. In today’s press release, Cherubim also said it will be launching an Investor Relations Kit in coming weeks to provide further insight into its market opportunities and current activity. The kit will be available on the corporate website.

Cherubim Chief Executive Officer Patrick Johnson stated, “We’re proud to unveil the revamped Cherubim website to better reflect our aggressive efforts to gain momentum in high-potential niche markets. Our growth strategy is based on a hybrid business model that positions us to advance our wholly owned subsidiary, BudCube Cultivation Systems USA, while exploring opportunities in vertical markets and maintaining our primary focus on real estate acquisition and development of single, multi-family and commercial rental properties, and portable, scalable plant cultivation facilities.”

For more information on the company, visit the new site at www.cherubiminterests.com or www.budcube.com

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Today, On the Move Systems issued a press release announcing that it is looking to add depth and value to the company’s launch of its upcoming “Uber-for-Trucking” online platform by possibly adding partners.

“We’re actively searching for innovative, dynamic partners who can bring the proper synergy and a complementary range of services to the table,” stated OMVS CEO Robert Wilson. “We’ve developed an aggressive plan to build revenues with our shared economy trucking platform. This plan has progressed steadily and is nearing fruition. By adding a partner that can deliver additional value to our users, such as brokerage offerings, we can become even stronger and take greater advantage of opportunities for continued growth and expansion.”

On the Move Systems anticipates introducing a new era with this game-changing, on-demand shared economy platform by allowing truckers to connect via an online app to improve operations, scheduling, routing and optimization.

A recent Frost & Sullivan report predicted trucking will soon see an Uber-style transformation, where online, on-demand apps like the one being developed by OMVS will play a major role in logistics operations and revenue-generation. Freight transportation services generate $1 trillion in revenues each year in the U.S., with trucking making up a $600 billion slice of that pie.

For more information on OMVS, please visit www.onthemovesystems.com

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ContentChecked has fashioned a ground-breaking marketplace for people with food allergies, dietary restrictions, chronic headaches and migraines and the organizations that cater to them. By inventing and introducing its ContentChecked, SugarChecked and MigraineChecked smartphone applications to this market, ContentChecked is aiming to serve, in the US alone, an estimated 15 million people living with food-related allergies (a number that has grown by 50% in the last 14 years) and an estimated 38 million people suffering from migraine and chronic headaches.

These days, ContentChecked is moving from the successful initial launch of its ContentChecked app to the wider release and marketing of all of its apps so that it may continue to impact people worldwide.

The food allergy market alone has an estimated value of $6 billion USD. For this market, the company promotes two of its three apps: ContentChecked and SugarChecked. The company’s namesake ContentChecked allows users to enter their individual allergies into the app and to scan any bar code with their smartphone while shopping or at a friend’s home in order to find out immediately if they are allergic to that item. Similarly, the company’s newest app SugarChecked pinpoints the four main types of sugars that consumers can avoid, including added sugars, artificial sweeteners, natural low-calorie sweeteners and sugar alcohols. This application serves as an easy shopping tool for consumers looking to decode often-misleading food labels, and to receive recommendations for healthier alternatives while shopping in real time.

Along with ContentChecked, the company’s other app MigraineChecked has reached broad adoption levels. This app addresses the migraine and chronic headache market by linking a person’s migraine headache to certain foods.

All in all, ContentChecked’s apps allow users to use their smartphones to scan the bar code on any food item of interest and decide if it is safe for consumption. The apps also helps users to personalize their shopping lists and ensure they purchase products that are compatible with their specific food allergies and intolerances. If the food item is not suitable for consumption, the apps will recommend an appropriate substitute per the user’s specific dietary profile.

With its latest round of funding — a $4.5 million debt financing completed in September 2015 with Hillair Capital Investments, an award winning U.S. fund, the ContentChecked team will continue the journey they began when the company was founded in 2013 to create and commercialize their current and additional food-related apps worldwide.

For more information, visit www.contentchecked.com or www.sugarchecked.com

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A growing number of Americans today are eating healthier, with a keen eye for locally-sourced, organically-grown ingredients, and this has led to an unprecedented shift towards healthy, organic foods in the roughly $709 billion in sales (National Restaurant Association’s 2015 Restaurant Industry Forecast) restaurant and foodservice industry. And while fast casual chains, which saw 11 percent sales growth the year before last overall, continue to increasingly move towards healthier choices, there has yet to be really big winners over on the $224 billion by 2018 (Euromonitor) full-service side of the equation. With recent winners in the fast casual game like Panera Bread’s (NASDAQ: PNRA) bakery-cafe locations and Noodles & Co. (NASDAQ: NDLS), which features globally inspired noodle and pasta dishes, as well as soups, salads and sandwiches, it is clear that organic choices and newly rethought menus designed to cater to the health-conscious are now officially big business in the restaurant industry.

Fusing a best-of-breed organic menu featuring fresh salads, sandwiches, wraps, Panini’s, pizzas and pasta, as well as appetizers and desserts, together with a Gymboree-like child play area that is full of climbers, ball pits, castles, dragons, pirate ships, and fun tactile games to play, is LA-based Giggles N’ Hugs, Inc. Designed as a family casual dining restaurant and playspace targeting parents and their young children, Giggles N’ Hugs has the potential to develop into a household name brand that is recognized by everyone, thanks to the deep bench of management talent, with decades of collective experience spanning both the fast casual restaurant sector, and child play area market. The concept and target market is simple to grasp, but until now no one was really catering to the upscale kid party market in dining with an organic restaurant concept, leaving the much sought after high earner demographics to fend for themselves.

Organic casual dining for mom and dad, with a giant playroom full of wonders for kids 1 to 12 to explore and play around in, getting good exercise and being periodically entertained by events like arts and crafts, puppet shows, or music. And the kids get to eat healthy, organic foods that parents can feel good about. Health-conscious, organic food-buying parents know that establishing healthy eating habits while young and associating healthy eating with physical activity is a great way to prepare kids for a lifetime of better living. Something which gives parents a huge incentive to come back again and again.

Whether it’s for a play lunch, a chance for parents to simply unwind with a drink while the kids play happily, or to leave the kids where they can enjoy themselves safely in an expansive 2,500 square foot or more play area. Under the watchful and attentive eye of trained “aides” who assist with the children’s enjoyment, parents can feel easy as they take in the consumer buffet of the numerous shops available in the mall or galleria where the Giggles N’ Hugs location is present. Being able to shop in peace, secure in the knowledge that the kids are happily playing and are safe is a godsend for busy parents. This one factor of the company’s approach to the space could drive sustained revenues to new levels amid a nationwide expansion.

This aspect of the business represents a significant asset to mall owners, offering potential mall goers a service that enables their overall experience mightily. This synergistic relationship between the nature of the business and the location where a given venue is present gives GIGL attractive expansion benefits, such as an on average 75 percent discount when it comes to commercial space rental fees, and as much as $700,000 up-front cash in some cases, enough to cover around half the build-out or site refurbish needed to open a new location. The company has taken serious interest from major mall operators throughout the country like Westfield Group, Macerich Group, General Growth Properties, and even Simon Properties, the biggest of the four, who collectively represent over 550 properties across the nation, each with access to choice demographics.

With three initial locations in upscale LA malls (Century City Mall, Glendale Galleria and the Topanga Canyon Mall) and plans to expand nationwide already in the offing, a sumptuous organic menu might drive customers in the doors, but it’s the kid-friendly amenities that will get shoppers to come back for more. GIGL takes in revenue from all the usual restaurant sources like food and beverage, as well as beer and wine, but gets the added revenues from admission fees for the play area, membership fees (one-month, three-month and six-months unlimited play) from regulars who get a substantial discount with the membership, and themed parties (roughly 40 percent of revenues), which put those typical at competitors in the industry, like Chuck E. Cheese, to shame.

At Giggles N’ Hugs, kids get organic food, drinks, a fresh desert, a wide variety of engaging activities including games, dance parties, puppet shows and music by professional entertainers, as well as return passes, and the entire party can be from among a whole range of themes. Chuck E. Cheese by comparison only offers Superhero and Princess themes, with two slices of pizza per kid, drinks, video games, and a candy piñata for around the same $350 price tag. At Giggles N’ Hugs kids can choose from over eight different themes, and the highly trained, CPR-certified staff really go out of their way to ensure the quality of the experience.

Take a closer look, visit www.gigglesnhugs.com

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Production of industrial hemp, though currently illegal throughout much of the country, is ingrained into the very fabric of the United States. George Washington was a noted proponent for hemp production, and farmers were even permitted to pay their federal taxes with the vital crop for more than 200 years. By 1850, there were more than 8,300 hemp farms across the nation. However, additional taxes imposed by the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 made hemp production too expensive to compete with international operations. If that didn’t damage the country’s industrial hemp market enough, a bit of mistaken identity with its high-inducing cousin was enough to land industrial hemp on the country’s blacklist following the Controlled Substances Act.

Although imported hemp has been legal since 1998, the federal government has been reluctant to remove the regulatory ban on the production of the useful crop. As a result, states are beginning to take matters into their own hands. In 2014, farmers in Colorado harvested the first legal, domestically-produced industrial hemp crop in more than half a century, and other states have since taken notice of the success of the Colorado industry. Hemp, Inc., through the operation of its 70,000 square-foot decortication and milling plant, is prepared to capitalize on this movement when legalization is achieved in North Carolina.

Since 2014, a total of 13 states – including South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky – have passed laws allowing industrial hemp farming for research and/or commercial purposes. In July, the state of North Carolina took a major step toward hemp legalization when it enacted a new law allowing for the prescription of hemp oils to patients with intractable epilepsy without the need for a pilot study. Hemp, Inc.’s management team highlighted the considerable promise provided by this decision.

“Many advocators and supporters feel this is a huge step for any level of medicinal use of the cannabis plant,” Craig Perlowin, secretary and director of Hemp, Inc., stated in a news release. “How long do you think it will take for North Carolina to allow it to be grown in its own backyard? After these amendments, I suspect not long at all.”

In the meantime, Hemp, Inc. is putting its decortication plant – which is among the largest in the world – to work by processing kenaf, an annual, non-wood fiber plant that’s indigenous to central Africa. For prospective shareholders, the company demonstrates tremendous potential upside, particularly as the movement to legalize industrial hemp production in North Carolina gains steam.

For more information, visit www.hempinc.com

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Cherubim Interests is a development-stage alternative construction and real estate development company operating under a hybrid business model that enables it to explore and secure various opportunities within the controlled environment agriculture sectors.

With its recent acquisition of an exclusive worldwide license to deploy a proprietary plant cultivation technology, Cherubim operates through its wholly owned BudCube Cultivation System USA subsidiary with plans to construct, deploy and lease scalable medical and recreational marijuana cultivation facilities for commercial applications.

Coupled with a real estate development and property management business model, BudCube can position itself anywhere in the world where the cultivation of cannabis is legal. The subsidiary’s unique business model positions the company to greatly benefit as more market participants seek to gain entry into a fast-growing market at an attractive price point.

Armed with the ability to lease a portable and scalable turn-key cultivation solution to growers, Cherubim aims to use its licensed solution to fill the gap for both first-time and experienced cultivators who may not have the capital resources to buy land, construct or tenant-improve existing structures for the optimum environment for developing a high-quality cannabis product.

BudCube also serves as a gateway to take advantage of increasing demand for grow space to accommodate cannabis and other plant species. In this respect, Cherubim’s ultimate plans are similar to that of mini-storage companies – think along the lines of Public Storage (NYSE:PSA) – by leasing secured square footage to individuals and corporations who need it. The company’s hybrid business model again comes into play here, as Cherubim plans to offer ingle tenant or “macro solutions” in addition to traditional multi-tenant or “micro solutions.”

Single Tenant “Micro” Application: In this model, Cherubim will enter into an agreement to provide a total cultivation solution to a sole tenant. The company will acquire and develop the land required and deploy a “macro” solution to square footage specifications required by that tenant.

Multi-Tenant “Macro” Application: Here, Cherubim will select various land positions across the United States and develop and open select secured locations where multiple tenants can lease “micro” solutions to individuals. Each location will have varying sizes based on market research relative to geographical area.

Overall, Cherubim’s strategy is to specialize in a wide array of development activities, including due diligence, acquisition, planning, construction, renovation, and property management, that will position the company to upgrade its assets to full market potential while providing a significant return to investors. This comprehensive expertise allows Cherubim to provide beginning-to-end development programs for all acquisitions.

For more information, visit www.cherubiminterests.com or www.budcube.com

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Florida-based On The Move Systems has a unique knack for entering new markets. Backed by a consistent long-term industry vision, the company is focused on establishing a scalable business that leverages private aviation routes to facilitate private air charter, freight shipment, as well as medical and exotic / animal transport services.

For five years, On the Move Systems has offered a portfolio of transportation, logistics and business services to global clients and a transportation management market that is expected to grow to approximately $15 billion over the next half decade. The company has continuously pursued one goal: to make it easier and more affordable for consumers to locate and buy transportation and logistics booking services from private air travel to luxury ground transport.

On The Move Systems is now turning its attention to ways it can help retailers. Typically, large retailers, like Wal-Mart and Amazon, invest millions in technology in order to ensure their customers’ order are quickly packaged and shipped only to see their efforts spoiled by poor delivery service during the shipment’s “last mile.” This is a situation that customers rarely take kindly to and that often results in their vowing to take their business somewhere else. On The Move Systems intends to assist retailers with this problem using its proposed shared economy courier service which promises fast, on-demand, professional, courteous delivery service.

The company also means to approach smaller retailers about its proposed shared economy courier service. Compared to Amazon and Wal-Mart, smaller retailers have limited capital resources to invest in ensuring their customers receive last-mile satisfaction. As a result, there is a promising business opportunity here for On The Move Systems. The company aims to help smaller retailers match Wal-Mart’s and Amazon’s speed, efficiency and service and put them on better competitive footing with the retail giants, especially as the holidays approach and shippers face delayed delivery times.

Market estimates have measured the annual value of large last-mile shipments at approximately $8 billion and the value of smaller shipments at a much higher number. Retail industry analysts have also forecasted that companies that can influence last-mile solutions will be able to achieve smart growth and reap profits.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.onthemovesystems.com

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