Eco-Safe Systems USA and CapNet Partner on Green Financing
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Eco-Safe Systems USA, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: ESFS) is partnering with CapNet to finance the sale of Eco-Safe ozone water disinfection systems.
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Spearheaded by Microsoft, Sun, and other high tech vendors, The Green Grid is generating support among industry groups, users, and government agencies for building standards for efficient data center energy management.
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TORONTO, June 19 -- Ontario on Tuesday offered financial incentives to encourage production of "green" cars and fuels, the latest sign of competition among Canada's provinces to address global warming.
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LOS ANGELES  - Discovery Communications has partnered with actor Leonardo DiCaprio on an environment-focused series that will help launch the company's Planet Green channel.
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The Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association (KCMA), the national trade  association that serves kitchen, bath and other residential cabinet  manufacturers and suppliers, recently introduced the Environmental  Stewardship Program (ESP).
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Eighty-five percent of users responding to a recent survey said environmental factors are important in planning IT operations, but only one quarter said they have written "green" initiatives into their company's purchasing processes. Meanwhile, critics of "green IT" say if vendors can sell by making their products appeal to that "feel-good" aspect of the market, then they know they'll get money out of it.
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WASHINGTON - Seeking to bolster its credentials on global warming, the United States signed an agreement yesterday with 13 other nations that calls for investing up to $53 million in companies that could profitably control emissions of methane, a
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InfoWorld - Capgemini has agreed to acquire the software services company Software Architects to expand its presence in key U.S. cities, the French IT services provider said Thursday.
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Seeking to bolster its credentials on global warming, the United States signed an agreement Tuesday with 13 other nations that calls for investing up to $53 million in companies that will profitably control emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas.
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SHERBROOKE, Que. (CP) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced the $1.5-billion Canada Eco-Trust and Clean Air Fund.  The fund will distribute money to the provinces and territories, which will decide on their major projects to reduce pollution and greenhouse gases.
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By Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Mar. 9--Modine Manufacturing Inc.'s development of carbon dioxide as an eco-friendly coolant has reached a crossroads as European officials decide whether CO2 should succeed a coolant that's scheduled to be banned in four years.
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Looking to expand its presence among New York financial companies, security services vendor Perimeter eSecurity has acquired Secure Electronic Communications Compliance Archival System ( SECCAS ), a small seller of e-mail management products.Based in New York, SECCAS sells Web-based software that can be used to archive and manage e-mail, instant message and Bloomberg messaging data, giving smaller financial institutions a quick way of bringing their IT systems into compliance with government regulations.Terms of the deal -- Perimeter&#39;s 11th over the past four years -- were not disclosed.Perimeter sells Internet-based software-as-a-service products to financial institutions, and the acquisition will give the company new services to sell to brokers, registered investment advisors and hedge funds, the company said.Founded in 1997, Perimeter is based in Milford, Connecticut. Last year the company closed two rounds of funding, picking up $104 million in investments. It has a staff of 300.
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Capgemini has agreed to acquire the software services company Software Architects to expand its presence in key U.S. cities, the French IT services provider said Thursday.
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(InfoWorld) - Open-source database vendor Greenplum had cause for celebration Tuesday, announcing both $15 million in venture capital financing and the appointment of a new CEO. The startup named Sun veteran Bill Cook as its new head. He spent 19 years at Sun and held a variety of positions there, including, most recently, a three-year stint as senior vice president of sales. After leaving Sun, Cook took on a similar role in heading up sales and services at Linux hardware and clustering company Penguin Computing. In August 2006, Greenplum announced a partnership with Sun to develop dedicated data warehousing appliances using the startup's database and the Sun Fire X4500 hardware server running Sun's Solaris operating system. Tuesday, the two companies unveiled their first customer for the Sun Data Warehouse Appliance, Smart Communications, the leading wireless service provider in the Philippines. Greenplum has developed its commercial open-source databases based on the open-source PostgreSQL databaseÂ and hasÂ aimed at users of data warehousing software and Bizgres to support BI applications. Sierra Ventures led the $15 million financing round in Greenplum. Three previous investors in the startup, venture capital companies Mission Ventures, Dawntreader Ventures, and EDF Ventures, also contributed. Greenplum will additionally benefit from the $4 million line of credit that Comerica Bank is making available to the company, the vendor said. Greenplum, which is based in San Mateo, California, plans to use the funds to continue development of its database as well as to expand its sales and marketing efforts around the world. That expansion is already underway with Greenplum on Tuesday also announcing the establishment of its Asia-Pacific regional headquarters in Singapore under the leadership of former NetezzaÂ executive Vinay Samuel. Netezza is a player in the data warehousing appliance market. Â
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Blog: Project financing for energy project is helping fuel renewable energy adoption. MMA Renewable Ventures expands financing to energy efficiency for mid-size companies.
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InfoWorld - Google has formed a partnership with Capgemini, which will provide IT services to large businesses that adopt the Google Apps Premier Edition hosted suite of collaboration and communication software.
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Customers including Allstate Insurance are actively pursuing green strategies, but say they want standards to help them gauge data center energy efficiency.