San Francisco, CA, June 22, 2010 – San Francisco-based Cleantech Law Partners and CleanTechies announced today a new online service that addresses some of the most pressing legal and policy issues cleantech and renewable energy professionals are facing.  The free online service at http://law.cleantechies.com allows visitors to submit legal questions via CleanTechies’ popular website. Cleantech Law Partners’ attorneys review the questions and provide their answers online. Users can provide additional feedback by commenting on the discussion and sharing their own experiences.

As new technologies develop and awareness about climate change evolves, cleantech and renewable energy laws, policies, and regulations play an increasingly important role in the United States. This service will provide a much needed resource to help cleantech and renewable energy professionals navigate the rapidly changing legislative environment.

“The Legal Q&A on CleanTechies helps close a significant gap in the online knowledge base by allowing renewable energy project developers, startup companies, service providers, and other professionals to ask our attorneys about legal and policy issues they encounter on a daily basis. We hope this resource will contribute to the overall growth of the sector,” said Jack Jacobs, founder and managing partner of Cleantech Law Partners, a boutique law firm that caters to the unique legal needs of renewable energy and cleantech companies.

The new online legal forum is built on strong foundations: It combines CleanTechies’ powerful Internet presence and reach of tens of thousands of cleantech professionals every month with Cleantech Law Partners’ legal expertise and industry-specific cleantech insights.

“We are excited to team up with Cleantech Law Partners to provide cleantech professionals with another valuable resource on our website,” said Ceylan Thomson, CEO & Co-Founder of CleanTechies, a leading network and knowledge hub that provides cleantech professionals with insights, resources, and opportunities. “Our goal is to provide better access to expert knowledge and facilitate understanding of important issues by offering cleantech professionals a platform to share their insights. The Legal Q&A will contribute to this goal by shedding light on important legal and policy issues.”

About Cleantech Law Partners
Cleantech Law Partners is a boutique law firm that caters to the unique legal needs of renewable energy and cleantech companies. The firm’s legal team works closely with clients on a variety of green projects, including: licensing wind farms, permitting solar energy systems, negotiating power purchase agreements, drafting land leases, securing intellectual property rights, accessing government funding programs, and managing financial transactions. Learn more at www.CleantechLawPartners.com

About CleanTechies
CleanTechies is a fast-growing cleantech network and knowledge hub. The website covers key industry trends, offers relevant career services, and provides industry-specific resources, including hundreds of user-submitted jobs and events. CleanTechies was recognized as a “Best Business Blog” by the Weblog Awards in 2009. CleanTechies, Inc. is based in San Francisco. Learn more at www.CleanTechies.com

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CleanTechies Boosts Job Seekers’ Confidence to Pursue Careers in CleanTech

Leading global career services forum launches professional resume writing services

San Francisco, CA, March 25, 2009 – CleanTechies.com, a leading global career services forum providing insight, orientation, and opportunities for the CleanTech community, has launched professional resume writing services to meet the increasing demand for guidance and orientation in the growing CleanTech and Renewable Energy market. CleanTechies’ new offering focuses on helping job seekers identify and leverage their most relevant skills and experiences. With expertly written resumes and cover letters that highlight their strengths, job seekers have the confidence to successfully pursue careers in this new economy. The new service can be found at: http://cleantechies.com/professional-resume-writing-services/

“In this emerging market, talent with relevant experience is hard to find, and employers are looking for candidates with specific qualifications and clearly transferable skills,” says Ian Thomson, CEO and Co-founder of CleanTechies. “With the growing number of new graduates and career changers attracted by clean technologies and renewable energies, applicants need to set themselves apart – particularly as companies are hiring less. CleanTechies pulls career changers as well as more experienced industry professionals out of the crowd with powerful resumes and cover letters that showcase their most marketable skills and experiences to catch a recruiter’s attention.”

CleanTechies offers its new resume writing services to job seekers at all career levels, such as students, entry-level and mid-career professionals, executives, and military personnel looking to transition into civilian careers. CleanTechies covers all industries and functions, including finance, marketing, sales, and project management. The new service complements the career offering on the CleanTechies website, where job seekers can find relevant professional opportunities, register to be considered for future recruiting, learn about job search strategies, and get insight on leading CleanTech companies. An overview of all CleanTechies’ Career Services can be found at http://cleantechies.com/cleantech-job-search-career-services/

CleanTechies Receives “Best Blog of the Day” Award

San Francisco, CA, March 2, 2009 – Today, CleanTechies was awarded as “Best Blog of the Day” by the Blog of the Day Awards. The award comes only two months after CleanTechies was awarded 2nd place for “Best Business Blog” by the Weblog Awards.”We are psyched to receive this award,” says Ian Thomson, CEO and Co-founder of CleanTechies. “It shows that CleanTechies is on the right way to becoming the leading career services forum providing insight, orientation, and opportunities for the CleanTech community.”The Blog of the Day Awards was started by Bill Austin in 2006 and has been awarding the “Best Blog of the Day Award” on a regular basis to weblogs of various topics. The award’s judges look at dozens of sites each day and decide which are the best on the basis of key factors, such as content, quality, design, clarity and creativity. The best sites are then announced on the award’s homepage.

CleanTechies Awarded 2nd Place For “Best Business Blog”

San Francisco, CA, January 13, 2009 – Voting for The 2008 Weblog Awards is now over. CleanTechies scored a great 2nd place! Thanks to everyone for their tremendous support! It’s a great achievement for the CleanTechies community to have a green blog win silver!

CleanTechies Nominated As “Best Business Blog”

World’s largest blog competition The Weblog Awards selects CleanTechies as finalist from 5,000 blogs – voting starts on January 5, 2009

San Francisco, CA, January 5, 2009 – CleanTechies, the world’s leading Internet platform with jobs and information for the CleanTech space, is nominated as “Best Business Blog” by The Weblog Awards, the world’s largest blog competition. The CleanTechies Blog (http://Blog.CleanTechies.com) was selected from over 5,000 open and public nominations in 48 categories and is one of ten nominees – and the only green blog – in the category “Best Business Blog”. Starting on January 5, 2009, votes for CleanTechies can be cast on The Weblog Awards website: http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-business-blog/

Founded in 2008, the CleanTechies Blog has quickly gained traction in the CleanTech community, reaching thousands of professionals, career changers, students and other environmentally concerned citizens worldwide. The blog covers issues affecting renewable energy, resource efficiency, green building and sustainable transportation. Industry experts write about current trends, discuss clean technologies and policies and provide career advice.

“We are thrilled that the CleanTechies Blog has been nominated for this reputable award,” said Ian Thomson, CEO and co-founder of CleanTechies. “This affirms our goal to provide a platform on which our online community can stay up-to-date on global trends, technologies and current events, share ideas and insights and interact with like-minded professionals not only on a local level but also worldwide.” He further added: “We aim to be the largest and most powerful CleanTech community in the world. Our nomination demonstrates that we already have a relevant impact on our audience.”

The Weblog Awards are the world’s largest blog competition with over 545,000 votes cast in 2007 and nearly two million since 2003. One of the major goals of The Weblog Awards is to expose the world to a wide variety of blogs and to increase readership of all finalist blogs. Nominations for the awards began on November 3, 2008 and closed on November 21, 2008; finalists were announced on December 29, 2008. Voting to determine the winner in each category starts on January 5, 2009 and now ends on January 13, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. (PST) after the deadline was extended by one day.

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