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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

GreenBiz

Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan. The world that emerges from COVID-19 could offer plentiful, zero marginal cost electricity, ubiquitous computing and cheap bio-manufacturing of high-purity drugs and environmentally friendly plastics directly from DNA. . Tom Baruch. Tue, 06/23/2020 - 01:30.

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Domo, Covestro and BASF team up to test blockchain for tracing plastics

Business Green

Three firms are aiming to create open data-sharing application that chemicals and plastics producers can use to inform circular production processes. And now two European companies, polyamide supplier Domo and polymer manufacturer Covestro, are collaborating with Dutch technology startup Circularise to create a system for tracking plastics.

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

AGreenLiving

Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan Tom Baruch Tue, 06/23/2020 – 01:30 The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies. No doubt, they will bring countless benefits.

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

AGreenLiving

Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan Tom Baruch Tue, 06/23/2020 – 01:30 The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies. No doubt, they will bring countless benefits.

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Circularity Challenge Spotlight: Circularise

Greentown Labs

The five participants are disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. The Netherlands-based, eight-person company is running pilots in the plastics and textiles industries, and aims to scale in 2020. . If the “recipe” changes, so does the information Circularise provides. Located in Somerville, Mass.,

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Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation and Greentown Labs Announce the KAITEKI Challenge Startup Participants

Greentown Labs

May 18, 2021 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, and Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation (MCHC) have selected six startups for the KAITEKI Challenge that are innovating in the areas of alternative proteins, plastics, and packaging. Somerville, Mass., billion in funding.

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Meet Our Inaugural Greentown Houston Members

Greentown Labs

Greentown Labs Houston will be the first climatetech-focused incubator in the city, aiming to serve as an on-the-ground catalyst for the energy transition in Houston. Let us introduce you to: Applied Bioplastics produces affordable polymers with properties that are equal to or better than those of traditional petrochemical plastics.