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. Innovation in the building sector is critical to achieving decarbonization, as the sector is responsible for 40 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions. and Houston, Texas, Jan.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Carbon marketplace hawks credits in businesses that store CO2 with their products. As corporate interest in carbon removal options grows, Puro.earth , a startup from Finland, is offering a twist on carbon marketplaces. Gloria Oladipo. Mon, 08/31/2020 - 05:00.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

When one thinks about carbon emissions, images of spewing smokestacks or tailpipes likely come to mind. One- seventh of the world’s carbon emissions are associated with building materials like steel, cement and aluminum. Put simply, there is a construction-shaped hole in our global efforts to combat climate change.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

North America’s largest climatetech incubator will expand to Houston’s Innovation District to accelerate the clean energy transition and reveals Microsoft, Rice Management Company, Saint-Gobain, Direct Energy, Naturgy, and FCC Environmental Services as additional partners. mixed-use space that anchors the Innovation District.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

Rossella Nicolin is European Head of Sustainability at engineering and construction firm Laing O’Rourke, a founding member of ConcreteZero. Concrete production accounts for 8% of global annual carbon emissions – if it were a country, it would rank somewhere between the US and India in terms of its carbon footprint.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Seventeen startups joined our community in the final months of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a smart nanocoating to keep products fresh, an autonomous waste-sorting system, and drinking water drawn from air’s humidity. Reframe Systems is scaling offsite construction with advanced robotic microfactories. Electricity.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 8, 2021

Visionary British female entrepreneurs are receiving government backing to drive forward their novel innovations and business ideas. The businesses are located right across the UK, from Scotland to Salisbury, and include a variety of sustainable innovations. Among the entrepreneurs being backed are: Christina King.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2021

IndiNature says investment will help scale up production of its 'carbon negative' building material. Carbon negative insulation for homes and commercial properties is to be produced in Scotland for the first time following a £3m investment in a pioneering green materials firm from the Scottish National Investment Bank.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 15, 2021

British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca is partnering with Future Biogas to power its UK sites with low-carbon energy as part of company decarbonization efforts. The deal will help the pharmaceutical firm move closer to its goal of becoming zero-carbon by the end of 2025. Project construction will begin in 2023.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

June 22 marked the publication of the fifth annual GreenBiz 30 Under 30 , our report celebrating rising young professionals in the field of corporate sustainability. . Do you think the COVID-19 crisis marks a turning point for the sustainability movement? . Digital Innovation Manager, BASF; Sao Paulo, Brazil. Holly Beale (2019).

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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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GreenTech Gazette

AUGUST 2, 2020

They are one of the most important forms of construction tool that we have ever come up with as a species. Not only are our bricks that we use today made from finite and limited resources, they are known to have some pretty negative carbon impacts. In 2009, they formed Kenoteq. Solving a centuries old problem.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

As well as being lighter, the modular nature means transporting the towers to the construction sites is far easier. If successfully commercialized, Modvion’s solution would solve the transport problem, while also replacing carbon intensive-steel with what could be a carbon-negative alternative. million to $7.2

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2022

A raft of leading concrete and construction firms have joined forces to launch a major new initiative that aims to deliver 100 per cent net zero emission concrete by 2050, with signatories pledging to meet a series of decarbonisation goals within the coming decade.

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Green Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

Green Technology’s Leadership Awards aim to recognize and honor individuals, organizations, and institutions that have made significant contributions to advancing sustainability efforts and reducing carbon footprints in various sectors. The award was accepted by Joel Griffith, DGS and the O Street team.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 13, 2022

T 3 transformation, which encompasses digital transformation, energy transformation and net-zero carbon transformation, is a new model for propelling today’s campuses into the future through systematic reformation and innovation. The world is consuming increasingly more energy, which causes higher carbon emissions.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

As the quest for sustainable energy intensifies, biomass emerges as a pivotal player in the arena of renewable resources. As we seek alternatives to fossil fuels, biomass holds significant potential due to its sustainability. Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Nestlé and Microsoft on financing circular innovations. A small number of influential large companies are creating internal funds to support sustainability goals specific to circular economy initiatives, such as designing out waste and recovering materials from products used internally or sold in the market. Elsa Wenzel.

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Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 14, 2023

An often overlooked part of construction is the installation of fiberglass insulation. Andrew Legge, of Havelock Wool, in an interview with NPR’s Marketplace Wool is an unexpected construction material that works well for insulation. This formulation of hemp fibers can be formed into brick shapes and used in construction.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The company can produce 90 million gallons per year of sustainable aviation and diesel fuel. Aemetis, Inc (NASDAQ stock symbol AMTX) has announced that it has recently received a Use Permit from the City of Riverbank, California, for the production of renewable fuels including negative carbon intensity sustainable aviation and diesel fuel.

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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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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The architectural firm has already earned a reputation for its unique buildings that marry design with innovation and sustainability. The 12th floor Sky Deck includes a cutting edge design that utilizes railings just beyond the skyline to create a negative-edge view, giving residents the sensation of floating above the city.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Tech-enabled credits continue to constitute a big chunk of an anticipated $1T voluntary carbon market , and Oxy is on a development frenzy. Just this year, Oxy: Acquired DAC company Carbon Engineering for $1.1B Just this year, Oxy: Acquired DAC company Carbon Engineering for $1.1B

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Fairsnape

MARCH 11, 2021

The UK is to set up green finance hubs in Leeds and London , as part of efforts to encourage lenders and insurers to invest in renewable energy and sustainable industry. Worth checking out is his interesting view on what he calls “the juggernaut of emissions generated by the global construction cement and steel industries”.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

Lucy Victoria Desai, a writer for Northern Powergrid who specialises in sustainability, business, and innovation, appraises the potential and practicalities of wind energy. The world has already found some innovative ways to sustainably produce energy without the reliance on coal, oil, and natural gas. The pros. •

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

InventWood aims to create a MettleWood I-beam to replace steel I-beams , which are heavily used in construction. In addition to being far more sustainable, the MettleWood I-beam is 80 percent lighter and estimated to be about 50 percent cheaper, according to the startup.

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Business Green

JULY 25, 2022

Modwen is building a major low carbon housing development at the MG Rover site where Mini cars were once made, it said today. Every organisation needs to be taking steps to deliver more sustainable products and services, but at St. Modwen on building the "innovative green homes of the future" in the region. Modwen said.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 7, 2021

Power plant engineering and construction giant Bechtel is partnering with a renewable energies company to explore the potential of bioenergy production sites combined with carbon capture and storage. Carbon capture and decarbonization focus of this month’s POWERGEN+ online series.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

Energy giant Drax has today confirmed that it is formally seeking planning permission for plans to construct a new underground pumped storage hydro power station, which would more than double the electricity generating capacity of its iconic 'Hollow Mountain' Cruachan facility in Scotland.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

New planning guidance announced by the Mayor of London will mean future developments have to include measures to mitigate impacts on air quality Developers in London will have to assess the impact new building projects could have on local pollution levels before proceeding with construction, under plans unveiled by Mayor Sadiq Khan yesterday.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 16, 2020

Leading climatetech innovation organizations launch multi-year initiative to accelerate the trillion-dollar carbon-to-value market. More than 100 gigatons of carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide, must be removed from the atmosphere by 2050. Newswise — New York City, N.Y., and Somerville, Mass., July 16, 2020.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2022

The funding was secured through the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP) from the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and is set to support the construction of a pilot plant in Northern Ireland that aims to begin testing in spring 2023, capturing a minimum of 100 tonnes of CO2 per annum. Extracting CO?

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Non-profit organisation’s report describes actions that would gear the buildings and construction sector towards a net zero future, through elimination of embodied carbon emissions. WorldGBC’s vision to fully decarbonise the sector requires eliminating both operational and embodied carbon emissions.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 22, 2021

in the innovation district being developed by Rice Management Company, Greentown Houston provides more than 40,000 sq. Greentown Houston has received an incredibly warm welcome from the Houston energy innovation community since it announced its expansion plans in June 2020. Located at 4200 San Jacinto St.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The promise of renewable natural gas is a sustainability win that has been financially and logistically out of reach for even the largest companies. A byproduct of anaerobic digestion process is a low-carbon fertilizer that has allowed farms to drastically reduce or eliminate synthetic fertilizers use and are increasing yield.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In deals, major funding includes $116M for hydrogen-powered aviation, $44M for sustainability software, and $75M in project finance investment for SAFs. sustainable infra fund.  fund that invests in sustainable infrastructure.   P.S. We’re hiring for an Account Exec at Sightline Climate, apply here.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index (EEXI) and Carbon Intensity Indicator (CII): Adopted in 2021 through the IMO , these measurements build on prior standards and became mandatory beginning Jan 1, 2023. IMO will assign a CII rating, with A being the best, least carbon-intensive and E being the worst, most carbon-intensive.

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