Ecopoint and RFP EcoCity Product and Service Guide partner to expand online listings platform

Hong Kong, 15^th June 2011

The RFP Eco City Green Building Product and Service Guide and Ecopoint Limited’s www.ecopoint.asia, Asia’s first web based eco-community, today announced their partnership to bring the RFP Guide to to Ecopoint’s online platform, allowing advertisers even further reach and bringing together two growing communities.

RFP’s EcoCity Guide is Asia’s first comprehensive, integrated guide book for green building in the region. Ecopoint is a broader online platform dedicated to serving the needs of practitioners and professionals working in the fields of climate change, the environment, clean technology and sustainable business.

Claire Saeki founder of the EcoCity guide and publisher of RFP EcoBuild Magazine says “The RFP EcoCity Guide was originally launched to serve the needs of public and private practitioners and project owners wanting to build green but who didn’t know where to start. We want to offer them information and contacts and we already have a broad selection of contributors from some of the world’s largest lighting companies to the region’s greenest developers and local cutting edge design and engineering practices. By partnering with Ecopoint, we are opening up a whole new range of opportunities for them that will encourage people to not only build green but to gain insight into other fields.”

Jochen Kleef, Chairman of Ecopoint Limited, said: “Ecopoint was created to be the first place online in Asia that people in the environmental industry seek out to share their success stories, learn from the leaders, connect with their peers across the region and mobilise change for the better. It’s early days, but already we’re able to point to a number of firsts for Asia: the first place on the web to provide high quality, comprehensive directory listings of green companies and organisations country by country, across the Asia region and our EcoJobs job board that is growing by the day. Until now it’s been incredibly hard to find, say, a specialised waste management supplier in the Philippines. Now you can and we’re very excited about this feature, which will continue to grow and be added to over time, not just by our team, but by members themselves. We are very excited to have someone as established as RFP EcoBuild Magazine as a partner for Ecopoint and our business directory as it proofs that our approach adds value to the community.”

Both Saeki and Kleef feel that “Individuals, companies, governments and organisations have realised that it is only through partnering and cross fertilisation of ideas that major steps can be made beyond mere sustainability to a profitable and enriching environment for all.” This partnership is just one of many that will expand the influence of the combined work of people working within the green and clean tech industries.

Project opportunities

Though the RFP EcoCity Guide was originally launched based on the needs of a small group of project owners that group has inevitably grown and the demand for information, contacts and expertise has increased, at the same time Ecopoint has provided a haven for entrepreneurs keen to connect with like-minded investors, from early stage startups to more established businesses seeking capital for expansion. Through the partnership the EcoCity guide and the Ecopoint platform will offer an even wider set of opportunities for companies that continue to work with and our growing range of partners.

About Ecopoint

Ecopoint is completely free to use for its community of members, from user content through to a standard listing for companies. Enhanced collaboration and promotional tools will be available at modest premiums.

Ecopoint Limited is a member of the Kleef & Co Group, developed by Karma Technologies Limited.

For more information, please visit: www.ecopoint.asia

RFP EcoCity Green Building Product and services Guide

More than just a directory the EcoCity Guide is comprehensive tool kit of green building products and services that will prove indispensable for everyone from investors to building occupiers. In print and online it will reach tens of thousands of buyers (distributors, suppliers and end-users), specifiers and investors of your green building or renewable energy offering. Broughtto you by the people who created RFP Magazine and EcoBuild Magazine in association with Real Kaiten, the EcoCity directory is both an industry reference and a tool for the government and private sector.

Visit www.ecocitymag.com for more information or call us on +852 2851 9923.

For media enquiries please contact us at info@ecopoint.asia or info@ecocitymag.com.