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SpadXTech Aims to Disrupt Vegan Leather Market with Plastic-free, Carbon-negative Material

Greentown Labs

When she realized microbes could create carbon-negative materials for applications across vegan leather, insulation, packaging, and more, González co-founded SpadXTech with mechanical engineer Connor Crawford in 2020. The pair got married this summer.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2024

Greentown Labs

Buildings Carbon Negative Solutions is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. Hub Controls ’ award-winning personal energy-management system, Hub Controller, saves customers money by knowing when their heating and cooling systems need to run—and, more importantly, when they can be turned off.

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Circular turbines: Vestas recycling breakthrough to allow upcycling of landfill-bound turbine blades

Business Green

The use of epoxy resin - a lightweight carbon fibre binder renowned for its strength and water resistance - has long been standard practice in the wind turbine industry, but the material has proven near-impossible to break down for recycling.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q2 2023

Greentown Labs

Seventeen startups joined our community Q2 2023, working on innovations ranging from smart sensors for wind turbines, to energy-efficient air conditioning, to a combo of water desalination and carbon capture. It’s participating in Year 3 of the Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative. It’s participating in Year 3 of the C2V Initiative.

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Greentown Go Build 2023 with Saint-Gobain Announces Startup Cohort

Greentown Labs

Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a circular-decarbonization solution for hard-to-abate industries–-utilizing low-purity industrial CO 2 and industrial byproducts to decarbonize cement. manufactures and distributes biobased building materials, including a low-embodied-carbon insulation.

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BIPOC Entrepreneurs Present their Climatetech Solutions at ACCEL Showcase

Greentown Labs

” – Kerry Bowie, Executive Director of BGS, at the ACCEL Showcase Thank you to ACCEL’s funders—the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center , Barr Foundation , bp , The Ion , and Microsoft —for making this program possible. gigatons of carbon by 2050 (through supporting the use of renewables) and can sequester 2.2

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Not only does reclaimed lumber give that rustic, farmhouse look and possess some unique history within its grain, but it also helps preserve our carbon-sequestering forests and rejects monoculture tree farms that do not support biodiversity or ecological health. Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials. RECLAIMED LUMBER.