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. But everyone needs to know about and celebrate the innovation and progress we see every day. The guide can be viewed at www.GoodCarbonGifts.org.

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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. But everyone needs to know about and celebrate the innovation and progress we see every day. The guide can be viewed at www.GoodCarbonGifts.org.

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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. But everyone needs to know about and celebrate the innovation and progress we see every day. The guide can be viewed at www.GoodCarbonGifts.org.

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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. Buildings Carbon Negative Solutions is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. It’s participating in Year 2 of ACCEL.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

At beauty and hygiene products company Lush, for example, working to implement zero-waste when possible has led to innovation across the board. In fashion, similarly, going the extra mile takes an innovative approach. Meanwhile, humans have continued destructive practices such as deforestation and agricultural expansion.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 22, 2024

CalWave Power Technologies , which is working to harness carbon-free power from ocean waves, was chosen by the U.S. TerraFixing , a Carbon to Value Initiative Year 3 alum that’s developing a direct air capture process for capturing CO2 in cold climates, signed a $7.3M to develop two carbon capture units. Department of Energy.

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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. It’s participating in Year 3 of the Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative. It’s part of the C2V Initiative Year 3 cohort.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Negative emissions technologies are critical for the earth’s climate and hitting net zero in the UK, argues Drax CEO Will Gardiner. In the first months of the crisis alone, China reported a 25 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. Going net negative. This year has been unlike any in recent memory.

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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. Rising corporate support of carbontech and carbon removal technologies writ large is one of the biggest reasons driving my optimism that the market is about to take a turn. .

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Elemental’s Policy Lab team unpacked the major national, subnational, and private sector commitments that emerged from COP 26 for climate technology innovation in the United States and beyond. The climate technology innovation ecosystem is ready to play an integral role in providing the solutions that will bring these pledges within reach.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

From electronic displays made from fish scales to sanitary products made from banana fibers, these inspiring innovations can capture human imagination and evoke an aspirational future free of toxins and litter, amongst other environmental improvements. . But these materials do more than strike awe and inspiration. Producing just 2.69

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

A tidal wave of new carbon emissions data soon will be upon us. A radical increase in available carbon emissions data may be just around the corner. Each partner brings a relevant monitoring technology to the table and expertise or a track record working in a key industry such as transport, agriculture or the energy sector.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Circular models made the rounds, starting with the design department, where a lot of negative environmental and social impacts are baked into garments, usually unwittingly. In the wings: startups touting a new generation of textiles, production methods and business models, suggesting there are a lot more innovations in store.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Because the price of keeping the status quo grows steeper every year, from the human and economic toll of climate-related disasters, fires, heatwaves, and other environmental stresses to the jobs left on the table by not accelerating towards a carbon-free, regenerative economy. Carbon negative materials. Why do we love them?

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 22, 2020

Kelp is also able to naturally remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, mitigating rising temperatures and climate change. Kelp’s health benefits extend beyond vitamins, as documented by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) FoodData Central site. Kelp is also appealing because of its nutritional value.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 9, 2024

Innovation in the building sector is critical to achieving decarbonization, as the sector is responsible for 40 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions. To change this, we need innovations that reinvent how buildings and their materials are planned, built, sourced, and managed. and Houston, Texas, Jan.

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Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

Microsoft hit headlines at the start of year with a hugely ambitious plan to be 'carbon negative' by 2030 , backed by a pledge to - by mid-century - retroactively remove all carbon dioxide the company has ever emitted since it was founded in 1975, in an announcement that sent shockwaves across the corporate world.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 8, 2022

As we embark on recruiting for Elemental’s Cohort 11, we spoke with each of our Directors of Innovation about what they’re looking to fund this year, what motivates them in their work, and much more. As a Director of Innovation, I am constantly learning, iterating, and problem solving.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2021

The economic foundations of today’s food and agricultural systems continue to be dominated by a singular focus on productivity and increased yields. At the same time, the positive externalities — carbon sequestration, pollination services, health and wellbeing and vibrant cultural traditions — also go unappreciated. Food & Agriculture.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Launching at a time when prominent Royals have just been widely reported expressing opinions on what they see as negative impacts of rewilding, a supposedly groundbreaking environmental partnership using trailblazing AI algorithms to demonstrate the positive impacts of rewilding farmland is newly underway in North Yorkshire.

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Business Green

AUGUST 24, 2021

Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme sees 24 projects share £4m of funding. The government announced the latest wave of funding from its Biomass Feedstocks Innovation Programme, providing grants worth up to £200,000 to 24 projects from across the UK.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Through the lens of environmental stewardship and innovation, this journey will dissect the layers of organic materials that form the backbone of biomass energy, venturing beyond the surface to examine the environmental, economic, and social narratives that intertwine with the fabric of this energy form.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

It got me thinking: Could we boost the carbon drawdown potential of clean technologies even further by supporting more women-led startups in the burgeoning climate-tech ecosystem? Carbon removal. Opus 12 is addressing climate change by using carbon emissions to create products traditionally derived from fossil fuels.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The fashion industry, for example, is very dependent on natural resources and healthy agricultural and forestry ecosystems. Such an approach focuses on maximizing positive and minimizing negative aspects of nature-based adaptation strategies and options. Our goal is to be a trusted, transparent and innovative partner.

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Walkers plans to significantly cut its carbon emissions by creating low carbon fertiliser for its potato farmers from leftover potato peelings. By-products captured from beer breweries was also transformed into fertiliser during the trial, it added.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

To achieve this it will require an annual reduction in carbon intensity of 9.7%, according to the latest “Low Carbon Economy Index (LCEI)” produced by professional services firm PwC. This year the UK became the first major economy to set a legally binding commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Facilitating technological and business model innovation will be central to achieving net zero, argues Nick Molho of the Aldersgate Group. This is where innovation has a key role to play to deliver a significant dent in emissions. Most of the technologies that are needed to get to net zero emissions already exist in some form.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 29, 2022

For instance, a single pint of beer can have a carbon footprint as high as 900g CO 2e (for bottled beer that’s been extensively transported). This is ~14% of the daily average carbon footprint from meals per US citizen – having 2 to 3 pints ramps that percentage up to 42%. Challenge 5 : The brewing process is wasteful.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

Not only do pesticides directly contribute to the climate crisis, but a changing climate is likely to intensify pressure from agricultural pests and decrease plant resiliency, resulting in greater pesticide usage and therefore further greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. One says it will “push” the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to host “positive livestock content” at COP28.

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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. Transportation.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

JANUARY 9, 2023

Because Myno’s process for producing biochar and carbon-negative energy from wood waste and forest-thinning slash piles will help our state reduce the risk of wildfires on our public lands. Within the CRF, some carbon in the feedstock will be converted into 18 MW of renewable baseload power at the Kettle Falls Generating Station.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Pharmaceuticals giant teams up with Future Biogas to help develop 125GWh biomethane plant fitted with carbon capture technology. We're proud to be working in partnership with innovative organisations like Future Biogas to enable the sustainable discovery, development and manufacture of medicines and vaccines," she added.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

It is widely understood that human activity is having a severe negative impact on natural ecosystems all over the world, and only with greater investment in analysis and remedial action can these issues be addressed.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Research body argues government must fix 'uneven' decarbonisation policies that continue to drive customers towards high carbon activities. Stable and enduring policies that cover all key emitting economic sectors and reward investment and innovation in reducing emissions will be needed," he said.

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