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Architects envision a green, solar-powered skyscraper

AGreenLiving

Warsaw-based architecture firm FAAB Architektura has unveiled designs for the Vertical Oasis Building, a conceptual skyscraper that would use renewable energy to reduce its carbon footprint. Although there are no plans for construction, the architects have identified the materials that they would use for the building.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q2 2022

Greentown Labs

Twenty startups joined our community in the second quarter of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a solution to enhance oceans’ natural ability to capture CO 2 , biotechnologies to produce wood products without cutting down trees, and a turnkey development approach to waste-heat-to-power projects. Electricity.

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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.