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Author of her own destiny

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:09:49 +0000

By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson

The solitary bookcase in Jane Friedman’s SoHo office is half empty. Her home library has 10,000 volumes, she says, but after a 40-year publishing career that saw her rise from being a Dictaphone typist at Random House to chief executive of HarperCollins, she rarely picks up [...]

Vintners’ Alliances’ Winery Partners Sell 14% More Wine

admin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:47:52 +0000

Vintners’ Alliance, a marketing technology and database provider for super premium wineries, announced that wineries utilizing its Intent Conversion service received, on average, a 14% increase in their October eCommerce sales. Read more.

ClearEdge Designs Fuel Cells To Replace Power From The Grid

admin — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:12:01 +0000

Fuel cells have long promised to deliver a cleaner source of power, but they are far from commonplace. But government efforts in recent years to reduce emissions by subsidizing cleaner energy generation are boosting fuel cells’ acceptance and benefiting companies such as ClearEdge Power, which on Tuesday launched two new systems designed to make [...]

Nine Titles Join Alice Walker Ebook Collection From Open Road Integrated Media

admin — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:08:12 +0000

Open Road Integrated Media announces the ebook publication of nine titles by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, including novels The Third Life of Grange Copeland and Meridian; poetry collections Revolutionary Petunias, Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, and Once; short story collections You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down and In Love & Trouble; and essay [...]

Travel and Leisure: America’s Coolest Coffee Houses

admin — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:01:40 +0000

Blue Bottle is one of the major shrines of the national coffee circuit. The shop at Mint Plaza is small, with big windows. Inside it’s like a mad-scientist’s laboratory whose devices are designed to torture the bean and make it yield its secrets. Read more.

Portland Community College Celebrates Commissioning of Combined Heat and Power Fuel Cell System

admin — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:32:17 +0000

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today applauded the commissioning of a combined heat and power (CHP) fuel cell system at Portland Community College in Oregon. The CHP fuel cell system will help Portland Community College save on its energy bills and help achieve its energy efficiency and sustainability goals. Students at the College will [...]

ClearEdge Power completes $73.5 million financing round

kohlbergventures — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:09:16 +0000

Series E funding validates company’s technology and market position; follows strong customer adoption, DOE funding and company growth

Akademos Launches eReader for Educational Materials; Forms Content Partnership with Flat World Knowledge

kohlbergventures — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:15:08 +0000

Akademos, Inc., a leading provider of online bookstores and marketplaces to educational institutions, announced today that it has launched a digital reader that will allow its member institutions to access electronic content from traditional publishers and from open resources, such as the Connexions Consortium, World Public Library, the Guttenberg Project, and many others.

Blue Bottle Coffee in Brooklyn Raises Brewing to a Science

kohlbergventures — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:22:49 +0000

IT might come as a surprise to most espresso drinkers, but some of the most obsessive figures in coffee take their cues not just from Italy, but from Japan.

Leading Organic Winery Increases Energy Efficiency and Supports Sustainability Goals with ClearEdge Power

kohlbergventures — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:31:33 +0000

ClearEdge Power, a manufacturer of high-efficiency stationary fuel cells, today announced that Stone Edge Farm, an organic farm and winery located in California’s Sonoma Valley, is leveraging the ClearEdge5 system to advance its energy efficiency and sustainability goals. The ClearEdge5 system enables Stone Edge Farm to significantly reduce the energy costs required to run a successful estate and vineyard. In particular, it reduces the energy required to run the farm’s irrigation system and lights.