Cleantech Venture Network honored with globe award for environmental excellence

Cleantech Receives 2005 Capital Markets Award for Sustainable Investment & Banking

• Ann Arbor, MI and Toronto, ON – May 27, 2005 - Cleantech Venture Network LLC, an
• organization that connects investors, entrepreneurs, and service providers focused on “clean
• technology” announced today the organization has been given the 2005 Capital Markets Award for
• Sustainable Investment & Banking at the GLOBE Awards for Environmental Excellence
• ceremony.
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• Each year the GLOBE Foundation and The Globe and Mail together recognize exceptional
• achievements in environmental stewardship to organizations that are committed to developing
• sustainable businesses while addressing environmental and social issues.
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• “We are pleased Cleantech Venture Network has been recognized for our work connecting venture,
• corporate and institutional investors and cleantech entrepreneurs, as well as providing trusted
• research and analysis of emerging cleantech technology and business trends,” said Nicholas
• Parker, Toronto-based co-founder and chairman of Cleantech Venture Network. “This is an
• enormous honor for our organization, our six hundred members and for the community we serve
• who are creating solutions to major global problems while building prosperity.”
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• The Capital Markets Award for Sustainable Investment & Banking is awarded to a financial
• markets company that incorporates environmental factors into investment and banking decisions.
• The Capital Markets Award represents an explicit recognition that financial markets are
• increasingly integrating environment factors into investment and banking decisions, and
• are placing more capital into sustainable technologies and ventures.
• The 2005 GLOBE Awards will be presented at EECO 2005 Environment and Energy Conference
• May 27, 2005 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in downtown Toronto, Ontario.
• About the 2005 GLOBE Awards
• Sustainability driven organizations are not only creating exciting new programs and developing
• cutting-edge technologies and services; they are revitalizing and energizing corporate sustainability
• as a whole. Each year The GLOBE Foundation and The Globe and Mail (Canada's national
• newspaper) proudly support the commitment of these brave leaders by recognizing outstanding
• achievement in environmental stewardship with the GLOBE Awards for Environmental Excellence.
• Considered to be the most high-profile new national awards series of its type, the GLOBE Awards
• are judged by a panel of experts well known in the Canadian business community.
• About the Cleantech Venture Network, LLC
• The Cleantech Venture NetworkTM LLC is an organization that connects venture, corporate and
• institutional investors, "clean technology" entrepreneurs, and service providers through related
• information products, online services and the Cleantech Venture Forum series of events. We serve
• over 600 affiliate investor member firms worldwide. We have tracked more than US $3.9billion
• invested in cleantech ventures since 2002, of which over US $300 million has been raised by
• Forum-presenting companies. Cleantech Venture Network has offices in Canada, Europe and the
• US. Further information can be found at www.cleantech.com or by calling (+1) 517-223-9607.
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• Cleantech Venture Network invites companies and investors engaged in commercializing or
• investing in clean technologies to apply for membership as a Company or Investor. Companies
• should contact Lauren Bigelow at lauren@cleantech.com and investors should contact Cheryl
• Blain at cheryl@cleantech.com.