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Loan Program For Green Home Upgrades Stalls - LA Times
Funds dry up, and many projects are left in limbo, after regulators and lenders raise alarms over terms of the Property Assessed Clean Energy program. [+] MORE
Home Energy Audits: Doctor’s Checkups for a House
Energy audits a recommended first step to improve home's efficiency, comfort. [+] MORE
Home Efficiency Pros Cross Fingers Home Star Will Pass - CNET
Home Star--the program nicknamed Cash for Caulkers designed to kick-start the home energy efficiency services market--stands a chance of passage as part of an offshore-drilling-focused energy bill. [+] MORE
Green Energy Financing Faces Federal Roadblock - SF Gate
An innovative financing scheme designed to help homeowners afford to make their homes greener and more energy efficient could be in trouble. [+] MORE
Smart Spending on Energy Efficiency is the Key to Creating Construction Jobs - Xconomy
As Congress weighs legislation to address persistent concerns about high unemployment, the construction sector in particular demands urgent attention. [+] MORE
Energy Efficiency: Made in the USA
Investing in a home-energy upgrade isn't just good for your wallet and kind to the environment, it also might put a neighbor back to work and ramp a nearby factory back into high gear. [+] MORE
With Science and Software, Energy Efficiency Audits Made Easier - Smart Planet
How do you distinguish your home efficiency services company? You develop software that helps make your more efficient at energy audits and home performance audits. Then you raise $8 million from the world's second largest home improvements retailer to help market and distribute the application nationwide. [+] MORE
Lowe’s Invests In Home-Energy Auditor Recurve - Forbes
Fans of energy efficiency, take note: big do-it-yourself is signing on. Home-performance company Recurve is announcing early Wednesday that it has received an investment from giant retailer Lowe's as part of an $8 million round of funding its Series B. [+] MORE
Recurve Raises $8 Million from Lowe’s, Others Big box retailers move in - Greentech Media
Home-energy remodeler/software developer Recurve said Wednesday that it had raised another $8 million. High on the list of investors is Lowe's Companies, the North Carolina-based home products chain with 1,700 stores in the United States and 14 million customers. [+] MORE
Lowe’s Nails Down Investment In Energy-Efficiency Start-Up - Wall Street Journal
Lowe's Cos.' (LOW) slogan about "building something together" normally refers to projects like kitchen floors and backyard decks, but now it can be applied to companies, following its participation in an $8 million financing round for home energy efficiency start-up Recurve Inc. [+] MORE
Recent Press Releases
Andy Leventhal Joins Recurve as new CEO
Recurve, a San Francisco-based provider of home performance software and green energy remodeling services, today announced that software industry veteran Andy Leventhal has joined as CEO. [+] MORE
Recurve Offers Free Home Energy Audits for Berkeley Residents
Recurve today announced that it will provide free audits and deferred remodeling payments for residents of Berkeley who are eligible for the city’s new rebate program, Money for Energy Efficiency (ME2), that launched on July 6, 2010. In conjunction with the city rebate offer, PG&E is offering incentives as well. [+] MORE
Recurve Raises $8 Million in Series B Funding
Recurve raises $8M Series B led by strategic investor Lowe's Companies (NYSE: LOW)[+] MORE
Recurve Announces Beta Release of Home Energy Auditing Software for Home Performance Contractors
Built by Contractors for Contractors, New Software Allows Fast and Accurate On-Site Audit Reports to Turn More Audits into Retrofits - General Release Planned for Later This Year [+] MORE
Recurve Ranked Third Most Innovative Energy Company By Fast Company
Recurve announced that the company was ranked 3rd among Fast Company’s 2010 ranking of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in Energy. [+] MORE
Sustainable Spaces Changes Company Name to Recurve
As part of its bid to expand the company and brand nationally, Sustainable Spaces will be changing its name to Recurve effective November 13, 2009.[+] MORE
Sustainable Spaces Jumps to #14 on List of Fastest Growing Bay Area Companies
Sustainable Spaces ranks #14 on San Francisco Business Times' list of Fastest Growing Bay Area Companies with 284% growth, up from #16 last year. [+] MORE
Sustainable Spaces Celebrates Five-year Anniversary from a ‘Bus-strapped’ Beginning to 1,000+ Green
Sustainable Spaces, a San Francisco-based provider of home performance services, this month celebrates five years of helping homeowners and builders create healthy, energy-efficient homes through green energy remodeling. [+] MORE
Sustainable Spaces Receives Accreditation from the Building Performance Institute
In receiving this accreditation, Sustainable Spaces becomes the first home performance retrofitter in California to offer it's customers invaluable third party verification of the quality of its work. [+] MORE
Sustainable Spaces Recognized with Home Performance with Energy Star Century Club Award
Sustainable Spaces announced today that it has received a 2008 Home Performance with ENERGY STAR Century Club Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy. [+] MORE
Sustainable Spaces Names Google Veteran Joel Truher VP of Product Development
Sustainable Spaces today announced it has hired engineering veteran Joel Truher as the company’s first vice president of Product Development. Truher brings more than 15 years of engineering experience to this newly created position. [+] MORE
Best Overall Flex Your Power Award
Flex Your Power, California's statewide energy efficiency campaign, selected Recurve for the sixth annual awards from among over 200 applicants. Recurve was one of 4 organizations recognized in the Best Overall category, including he California Academy of Sciences and the University of California, Irvine.[+] MORE
Sustainable Spaces Recognized as High Growth Company by SF Business Times
Recurve, a San Francisco-based home performance contractor and national leader in the growing field of home health and energy efficiency, today announced that the company was ranked 16th among the San Francisco Business Times' Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies in the Bay Area. "The Fast 100", now in its 17th year of publication, surveys Bay Area companies to find the most innovative and inspiring privately owned firms who have shown the highest fiscal growth rates. [+] MORE
Sustainable Spaces Merges with Renu
Leading home performance companies merge to form one trusted name in home testing and home performance retrofitting. [+] MORE
Sustainable Spaces Secures $6 Million Series A Investment
Recurve, a national leader in the growing field of home energy efficiency and health, today announced it has closed its Series A funding. The company secured $6 million dollars from RockPort Capital Partners and Shasta Ventures. The infusion of funding will enable the company to invest in building its infrastructure to meet the exploding demand for its services. [+] MORE