GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. Let’s start with costs.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Carbon marketplace hawks credits in businesses that store CO2 with their products. As corporate interest in carbon removal options grows, Puro.earth , a startup from Finland, is offering a twist on carbon marketplaces. Gloria Oladipo. Mon, 08/31/2020 - 05:00.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Consumption of animal products should and will decrease, but many alt protein brands and startups will disappear before that happens. dairy brand that committed to going carbon-negative by 2025 ? But do regenerative methods sequester as much carbon as advocates claim? Or back in March at Horizon Organic, a U.S.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere may be as difficult as getting to the moon. . Launched on Earth Day 2019, Project Vesta aims to enhance natural weathering processes to accelerate carbon capture and storage in the world's oceans. Shooting for the moon: 3 radical innovations to remove atmospheric CO2. Tali Zuckerman.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The startup behind the UK’s first commercial direct air capture (DAC) plant has begun delivery of its first international project, at an installation in Alberta, Canada. The project is described as an important milestone – for both the DAC and carbon removal industries, and for the global fight against the climate crisis.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Enter ECL, a California-based startup led by Yuval Bachar, which is charting an innovative path with hydrogen-powered data centers. These facilities promise faster deployment times and a significantly lower carbon footprint compared to conventional setups connected to strained energy grids.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 26, 2024

Twenty-four startups joined our community in Q1 2024, working on innovations ranging from biobased building materials, to sustainable rubber, to solar-powered flight. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you! The startup is participating in Go Build 2023.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 21, 2023

Seventeen startups joined our community Q2 2023, working on innovations ranging from smart sensors for wind turbines, to energy-efficient air conditioning, to a combo of water desalination and carbon capture. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The recurring, year-long program welcomes seven startups led by underrepresented founders Somerville, Mass. The recurring, year-long program welcomes seven startups led by underrepresented founders Somerville, Mass. These early-stage startups are working on innovations from vertical-axis wind turbines to carbon-negative concrete.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 28, 2020

This Israeli startup mimics mangroves, coral and oysters to create protective seawalls. Today's carbon-negative fuel. Episode 234: Circularity 20 highlights, talking green chemistry. Heather Clancy. Fri, 08/28/2020 - 02:00. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (6:45). The rise (and rise) of sustainability-linked finance.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. Strange as it may sound, demand for this service — a form of what’s called “ carbon removal ” — was just beginning to grow.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 26, 2025

Our 200+ startups never fail to impress us with their hard work and commitment to scaling their climatetech solutions! Interested in engaging with or joining our community of climatetech startups? Learn about how you can take action with our members or apply for startup membership ! Check out their latest accomplishments below.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 9, 2024

The accelerator will advance six startups’ climatetech solutions and foster potential development, investment, and commercial partnerships with Saint-Gobain Somerville, Mass. manufactures and distributes biobased building materials, including a low-embodied-carbon insulation. and Houston, Texas, Jan. and Houston, Texas, Jan.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

When she realized microbes could create carbon-negative materials for applications across vegan leather, insulation, packaging, and more, González co-founded SpadXTech with mechanical engineer Connor Crawford in 2020. The pair got married this summer. Samples of AirPods cases made using SpadXTech’s materials.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 23, 2024

Over the past six months of Greentown Go Build 2023 , Saint-Gobain has worked closely with six building tech startups to advance innovations for circularity and decarbonization of the built environment.

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TechCrunch: Climate

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Working away on his PhD in Munich only a few years ago, Stephan Herrmann (now a doctor) couldn’t have conceived of a time when his idea for a carbon-negative power plant would attract millions in funding. All rights reserved.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Seventeen startups joined our community in the final months of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a smart nanocoating to keep products fresh, an autonomous waste-sorting system, and drinking water drawn from air’s humidity. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 29, 2023

ImpactAlpha, March 29 – A raft of startups are developing lower-carbon construction materials for buildings, which are responsible for 40% of global carbon. million to ramp up production of carbon-negative concrete appeared first on ImpactAlpha. The post Carbonaide secures €1.8

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 10, 2021

The three-year Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative —a partnership among Greentown Labs, Urban Future Lab , and the Fraunhofer USA TechBridge Program —is creating a first-of-its-kind collaborative ecosystem for carbontech startups and leading corporations with the end goal of making carbontech cost-effective and achieving its deployment at scale. “We

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2021

US start up secures fresh backing for pioneering technology that sequesters carbon from biomass waste in the form of thermoplastics. There may be more funding for climate tech startups floating around than ever - roughly $17bn in the first half of 2021 alone - but that doesn't mean investors aren't doing their due diligence. "It

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

After doing some research in Prague on carbon negative building materials, I have relocated to Portland and am currently working as a project manager/sustainability lead on the PDX Airport Terminal Core Redevelopment (TCORE) Project. Boredom turned into negative thoughts, and negative thoughts turned into depressing thoughts.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 24, 2024

Twenty startups joined our community in Q2 2024, working on innovations ranging from refrigerant-free heat and AC, to solar-panel recycling, to electrochemical seawater desalination. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 17, 2022

Agricultural practices routinely involve large-scale monocrop operations that negatively impact soil health and utilize unsustainable chemical practices, producing harmful waste streams. Clearly, there’s a tremendous opportunity to rethink and improve our entire food system to address both its negative climate and social impacts.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 26, 2023

Our 200+ startups never fail to impress us with their hard work and commitment to scaling their climatetech solutions! Interested in engaging with or joining our community of climatetech startups? Learn about how you can take action with our members or apply for startup membership ! Check out their latest accomplishments below.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events. These were BIV’s first African startups. But at a total of just $27.2

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The seven ACCEL Year 2 participating startups are working on everything from yeast-centered water treatment, to vertical-axis offshore wind turbines, to algae- and cellulose-based fashion beads. In addition to conducting this pilot, next priorities for the startup include locking down industrial pilot projects. “We

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E8 Cleantech Angels

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Today cleantech investment leaders E8 and partners launched the Good Carbon Gifts guide, an online listing of products that capture and store carbon that also make great gifts. Whether capturing carbon back from the air, or carbon rich and sequestering gifts for your garden, this is not science fiction.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Today cleantech investment leaders E8 and partners launched the Good Carbon Gifts guide, an online listing of products that capture and store carbon that also make great gifts. Whether capturing carbon back from the air, or carbon rich and sequestering gifts for your garden, this is not science fiction.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Today cleantech investment leaders E8 and partners launched the Good Carbon Gifts guide, an online listing of products that capture and store carbon that also make great gifts. Whether capturing carbon back from the air, or carbon rich and sequestering gifts for your garden, this is not science fiction.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

ACCEL is an accelerator from Greentown Labs and Browning the Green Space (BGS) that’s dedicated to bolstering BIPOC-led startups as they develop critical climatetech solutions by offering access to funding, networking connections, resources, and opportunities that structural inequities put out of reach.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 22, 2024

Our 200+ startups never fail to impress us with their hard work and commitment to scaling their climatetech solutions! Interested in engaging with or joining our community of climatetech startups? Learn about how you can take action with our members or apply for startup membership ! to develop two carbon capture units.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 16, 2023

Greentown Go Move 2022 brought BASF and Magna together with five climatetech startups to advance solutions that decarbonize the automotive industry’s life-cycle impact. A group of experienced startup mentors and industry experts, including from BASF and Magna, provided valuable guidance to the cohort’s founding teams.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 7, 2025

As analysts, investors, journalists, and other experts offer up their predictions for 2025s climatetech areas to watch, Greentowns featuring just a sampling of our startup members innovating in these key categories. Learn about all of our 200+ startups here! Terralytiq is a decarbonization copilot for industrial supply chains.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In addition to being far more sustainable, the MettleWood I-beam is 80 percent lighter and estimated to be about 50 percent cheaper, according to the startup. MettleWood is InventWood’s primary focus currently, and the startup is exploring applications in building cladding, siding, flooring, and decking.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

So what does this mean for climatetech startups and the investors who have the resources to help scale their technologies, and where may the biggest opportunities lie? Carbontech, already a hot topic in recent years, has come to the forefront after the IPCC report emphasized the criticality of large-scale carbon removal. 21— join us !

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 31, 2022

The company’s key verticals include carbon-negative biomanufacturing, also called carbon capture and utilization (CCU), biomining, and subsurface biomanufacturing. The climate impact? Utilizing one gigaton of CO 2 by 2050, according to Cemvita Factory—about 2.5 percent of global emissions.

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