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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. Buildings Carbon Negative Solutions is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. The startup is participating in Go Build 2023.

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All Eyes on Marine Plastic From Orbit

Planet Pulse

New research combining Planet’s high cadence satellite imagery and other innovative technologies has successfully found the sources and pathways of plastic pollution in the Caribbean Sea. A boom is filled with plastic, and yet was only able to collect small amounts of it due to much of the debris passing it by. km2 to 0.77km2.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

As human society has continued to innovate exponentially, largely at the expense of the planet, scientists have hypothesized that we are beginning to enter a new epoch, or period of time in history, defined by human impact on the earth known as the Anthropocene. The Holocene.

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Top five green innovations to watch in 2022

Business Green

Innovate UK's Jonny Voon explores some of the most exciting green ideas this year, ranging from UK lithium mining and plastic recycling breakthroughs, clothing that 'grows' with the children wearing it. Key to a sustainable recovery is innovation. Currently, only up to 15 per cent of plastic is recycled. Impact Recycling.

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Cohort X gives us 19 reasons to be hopeful

Elemental Excelerator

We will switch to electric vehicles in huge numbers. We will bear witness as the massive climate-action energy gathering strength in city halls, schools, and boardrooms turns kinetic and steers markets away from extraction and toward life-sustaining systems. WeaveGrid enables widescale electric vehicle adoption on the grid.

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Eco Friendly Retail Packaging Complete Guide (Sustainable Packaging Innovations)

Green Business Bureau

Eco friendly retail packaging solutions and innovation. Polluting packaging agents build up to foul habitats and ecological systems, creating unstable environments which threaten human well-being and security. Fossil fuel energy avoidance : Incineration with energy recovery. The 6 types of retail packaging waste.

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Human Nature: Insights from Interactive 2022

Elemental Excelerator

Heard from 16 incredible innovators in Cohort X. We hope that you will learn something new and come away feeling the way we did at the end of the day — grateful for the grit, empathy, and ingenuity on display from so many people working across industries to ensure a better future for people and planet. Office of Naval Research.