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At TEDxElemental, climate-tech entrepreneurs spoke about planting roots and spreading wings

Elemental Excelerator

Val Miftakov and his team at ZeroAvia are building a zero-emission future for aviation. Carbon negative materials. Allison Dring and the team at Made of Air are already creating materials that are carbon sinks. Regenerative farmers are sequestering carbon in the soil while feeding us all. Roots and wings.

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Meet the Innovators in Elemental Excelerator’s 9th Cohort

Elemental Excelerator

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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? Green linings & lessons from breakthroughs #159

Climate Tech VC

A breakthrough in next-generation geothermal, industry approval for emissions-free cement, and the start of construction on a first commercial sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant illustrate progress and put the focus on execution moving forward. Meanwhile, extreme heat boils over into labor issues.