5 seriously cool climate innovators in fashion
GreenBiz
APRIL 6, 2020
From carbon-negative polyester to dissolvable thread, here's a handful of surprising startups making waves in the apparel industry.
How Stripe’s ‘negative emissions’ team picked its first four carbon removal projects
GreenBiz
MAY 28, 2020
How Stripe’s ‘negative emissions’ team picked its first four carbon removal projects. Among the many notes to myself about potential follow-up stories lies my scribbled reminder to check in on online payment tech company Stripe’s pledge last year to put at least $1 million annually toward carbon removal activities.
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Carbontech is getting ready for its market moment
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 28, 2020
This morning, digital payments company Stripe announced a plan to let its merchant customers divert a portion of their revenue to carbon removal projects. Startups in this particular corner of the climate solutions area have not actually been supported in a commercial way. Makes me want to host my own personal blog there.
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Ocean-based sequestration heats ups
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.
What does digital art have to do with sustainability?
GreenBiz
MAY 5, 2021
Beyond raising funds, the foundation aimed to raise awareness about the potential for digital technologies to address climate change, as well as their potential negative impact. In addition to generating both headlines and confusion, NFTs have drawn attention to the high carbon footprint of certain blockchain applications. Pull Quote.
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Ocean-based sequestration heats up
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.
Carbon marketplace hawks credits in businesses that store CO2 with their products
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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3 big trends headlining a tumultuous year in food
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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Shooting for the moon: 3 radical innovations to remove atmospheric CO2
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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UK startup begins delivery of DAC plant in Canada
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-Powered Data Centers Poised to Transform AI Infrastructure
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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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2024
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.
Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q2 2023
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 and Browning the Green Space Announce Second Cohort for ACCEL, an Accelerator for BIPOC-led Climatetech Startups
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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Episode 234: Circularity 20 highlights, talking green chemistry
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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Meet the startup producing oil to fight climate change
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 Startup News Roundup — March 2025
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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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q3 2021
Greentown Labs
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Twenty startups joined our community in Q3 2021, working on innovations as diverse as carbon-negative fats, energy-efficient membrane materials for chemical separations, and scalable electric vehicle charging solutions for high-density urban settings. Agtech + water.
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Greentown Go Build 2023 with Saint-Gobain Announces Startup Cohort
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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SpadXTech Aims to Disrupt Vegan Leather Market with Plastic-free, Carbon-negative Material
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.
Go Build 2023 Startups and Saint-Gobain Partner on Integration Testing, Pilot Studies, Market Exploration, and More
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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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q4 2022
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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This startup is making manure out of other biogas power plants and now has $62M to play with
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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Carbonaide secures €1.8 million to ramp up production of carbon-negative concrete
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
Meet the #C2VInitiative Startups On the Forefront of Carbontech
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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Circular materials startup Made of Air raises seed round
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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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q2 2024
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 Sector Pitch Day Highlights Solutions for Agricultural Decarbonization and Resilience
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 Member Milestones — July 2023
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.
Data snapshot: Climate-related agrifoodtech in majority of upstream African investment, but more funding needed
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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ACCEL Year 2 Startups Announce Pilots, Prize Wins, and Planned Fundraises
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 Launches Good Carbon Gifts,a carbon-negative catalog for the 2020 holidays
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.
E8 Launches Good Carbon Gifts,a carbon-negative catalog for the 2020 holidays
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.
E8 Launches Good Carbon Gifts,a carbon-negative catalog for the 2020 holidays
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.
BIPOC Entrepreneurs Present their Climatetech Solutions at ACCEL Showcase
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 Member Milestones — May 2024
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.
Go Move 2022 Startups, BASF, and Magna Collaborate to Decarbonize the Automotive Industry
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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Meet the Startups Innovating in Experts’ Top Climatetech Areas for 2025
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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InventWood Takes on the Buildings Sector’s Emissions with Superpowered Wood
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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Top Climatetech Investors Discuss the IPCC Report’s Call to Action
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 !
Meet Cemvita Factory, Whose Microbes Are Tackling One Gigaton of CO2
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.
Greentown Go Make 2022 with Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas) Announces Startup Cohort Focused on Supply Chain Decarbonization
Greentown Labs
OCTOBER 20, 2022
The accelerator program, which specializes in advancing startup-corporate partnerships with Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas) and the M-Lab Companies, welcomes five startups working on emissions-reducing innovations for industrial supply-chain applications. Somerville, Mass. and Houston, Texas, Oct. Somerville, Mass.
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Can Gas-Fired Power Plants Coexist with a Net-Zero Target? Yes, Southern Company Insists
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. That includes a recommitment to reaching its 2030 goal of reducing carbon emissions below 50 percent of their 2007 levels, potentially ahead of schedule.
C-Capture raises £8m to accelerate carbon capture technology development
Business Green
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
UK start-up C-Capture has secured £8m investment to further develop its pioneering carbon capture technology from its existing shareholders IP Group, Drax and BP Ventures, as well as additional funding from the British Business Bank's Future Fund, it announced today.
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