Founded in 2002, Corporate

Knights is an independent Canadian-based media company with an

explicit focus on corporate responsibility.

The Cleantech 10 and Next 10

represent Canada’s best publicly and privately held companies in

the Cleantech realm, as judged by Corporate Knights panel of

experts, and span a range of sectors from desalination to water

power to solar technology.

Corporate Knights, the company for clean capitalism, has

unveilled the preeminent list of Canadian public and private

cleantech companies, the Cleantech 10(tm) and Next 10.

Corporate Knights has been following cleantech companies since

2007, and highlighting the companies poised to make it big. The

CEOs of the Cleantech 10(tm) and Next 10 opened on the Toronto

Stock Exchange.

Also announced today via a Corporate Knights magazine, which

is


distributed as a quarterly insert in the Globe and Mail and

Washington Post,  was news that Corporate Knights has closed

an investment round with a prestigious group of investors led by

Vancity Community Capital.


 


This private investment will allow Corporate Knights Inc. to

launch a new division, Corporate Knights Capital, which will

leverage Corporate Knights rankings to create a global suite of

clean capitalism- themed passive investment products tailored to

meet large investor needs.

The Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange host over

130 clean technology companies with a combined quoted market value

of $16,754,255,148 as of September 30, 2011.





The Corporate Knights Cleantech 10(tm) was compiled by Corporate

Knights Inc. and Cleantech Group LLC, the leading provider of

Cleantech indices and information globally.

The Cleantech 10(tm) list was created by Rafael Coven, Managing

Director and Index Manager of The Cleantech Index (CTIUS;

cleantechindex.com), which underlies several Index-based funds such

as the PowerShares Cleantech ETF (NYSE:PZD), and is the first and

only index to cover cleantech companies across a broad array of

industries.

The Next 10 were selected by an advisory panel of Canada’s

foremost authorities on cleantech, using four judging criteria:

creativity and original approach, solving a business problem, clear

business objective, and best chance of breaking through.

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