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Konarka Secures $45 Million in Private Capital Financing (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-01-2007 at 09:01:03
| Konarka Technologies, Inc., an innovator in development and commercialization of Power Plastic®, a material that converts light to energy, today announced it has raised $45 million in private capital financing. The financing was led by Mackenzie Financial Corporation, a leading investment management firm with over $60 billion in assets under management, and was co-led by existing investor, Good Energies, a leading investor in the renewable energy industry. New investor for the company, Pegasus Capital, participated in the round, as did existing lead investors from prior rounds including Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), Asenqua Ventures, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and 3i. Other participating current investors include Vanguard Ventures, Chevron, Massachusetts Green Energy Fund, NGEN Partners, Angeleno Group and Asenqua Ventures. The financing was agented by Lehman Brothers. |
Mass Market for Green Homes Coming? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-01-2007 at 09:01:03
| They built, overnight, a 725-square foot house on the lawn of San Francisco's elegant city hall that demonstrates the potential for manufactured housing to tackle a variety of urgent concerns: affordable housing, global warming, peak oil, water shortages, healthy living and much more. |
Massachusetts Universities and Colleges Commit to Renewable Energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 10-01-2007 at 09:01:03
| Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles last week congratulated 41 Massachusetts campuses – including all 29 public colleges and universities -- for joining a national campaign to make college campuses climate neutral by embracing clean energy technologies and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. |
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