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Nature takes root on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

We see customers demanding action on carbon emissions, investment firms structuring new green products and governments developing regulations to support the transition to a sustainable future. This has led to a strong focus on two main sectors: energy and transportation. After all, climate change accelerates as nature is harmed.

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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

These early-stage startups are working on innovations from vertical-axis wind turbines to carbon-negative concrete. AtmoSpark Technologies (Houston, Texas) is an atmospheric water generation company with a patented electro-condensation technology, which has a lower energy footprint than that of current water-generation methods.

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To make offices safe during COVID-19, buildings need a breath of fresh air

GreenBiz

To keep energy costs low, contractors worked to tightly seal buildings including designing windows that don’t open. Improvements in ventilation technology have decreased energy consumption by up to 30 percent. Concerning implications for energy consumption. And that's where the energy bill can really spike.

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

McDonough: Last year, I opened the G20 in two tracks: climate and energy. What we were looking at was how do we look at carbon in this circular economy? How do we look at carbon itself as an element, which is both an energy source and a material? McDonough: I was at Yale, and we had the energy crisis in 1973.

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Greentown Go Make 2022 with Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas) Announces Startup Cohort Focused on Supply Chain Decarbonization

Greentown Labs

Energiency (Rennes, France): Artificial-intelligence- and human-intelligence-driven energy intelligence technology dedicated to manufacturing. ? Moment Energy (Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada): A clean, affordable, and reliable energy storage system built using second-life electric vehicle batteries. ? Asahi Kasei America Inc.,

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Urban Future Lab, Greentown Labs, and the Fraunhofer USA TechBridge Program Announce the Carbon to Value Initiative

Greentown Labs

Leading climatetech innovation organizations launch multi-year initiative to accelerate the trillion-dollar carbon-to-value market. The C2V Initiative is supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority ( NYSERDA ) and the Consulate General of Canada in New York (CNGNY). Newswise — New York City, N.Y.,

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Tipping Points In Tropical Forests: Carbon Fluxes In The Amazon And Africa

Energy Innovation

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. One such critical tipping point is the potential transformation of the world’s largest tropical forests from carbon sinks into net sources of carbon emissions.

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