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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2024

Greentown Labs

Twenty-four startups joined our community in Q1 2024, working on innovations ranging from biobased building materials, to sustainable rubber, to solar-powered flight. The post Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2024 appeared first on Greentown Labs. The startup is part of the second ACCEL cohort.

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?? Your climate crystal ball into 2024

Climate Tech VC

In the distant memory of four weeks ago, we shared 10 predictions for 2024 with comments from 15 experts. We asked you to gaze into a climate crystal ball with us and say yes or no to how our 2024 predictions might play out and you answered the call.   The big buzzy topic  What's going to be the hot topic in 2024?

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Comment: Agriculture and pharma key to solving micropollutants problem

Envirotec Magazine

As the phrase ‘forever chemicals’ enters the Oxford English Dictionary for the first time in 2024, and these fluorinated substances expand the list of micropollutants, it might be time for a change in the way these persistent environmental pollutants are tackled. Some use technologies like ozone oxidation, and membrane filtration.

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Apple waste, spider silk, enhanced cotton: How bio-based textiles could replace plastic in our clothing

Grist

The spotlight If you’ve read any climate-related news in the past several years, you’re probably familiar with the scourge of microplastics. A study published just last month in the journal Toxicological Sciences tested 62 placentas, and found microplastics, in varying concentrations, in every single one.

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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. Axis Sky Renewables (Houston, Texas) creates innovative wind solutions, specializing in vertical-axis wind turbines that are less expensive to produce, deploy, and maintain than traditional wind turbines.

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? Uranium prices go nuclear #181

Climate Tech VC

  Maybe it was Barbenheimer, but nuclear is in for 2024. Join us for a discussion and live Q&A this Thursday, Jan 25th on Sightline Climate’s 2023 climate tech investment trends and the outlook for 2024.  Detecting microplastics in wastewater.  Happy Monday!  However, there’s a catch.

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The Manta is a hybrid catamaran that will collect floating plastic

AGreenLiving

Poised for launch in 2024, the Manta will operate autonomously 75% of the time without the use of fossil fuels , and it will have the ability to extract between 5,000 and 10,000 tons of floating plastic each year. Its design allows the Manta to extract microplastics from 10 mm upward and up to 1 meter deep.