Greentown Labs

JANUARY 9, 2024

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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Greentown Labs

MAY 10, 2021

The three-year Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative —a partnership among Greentown Labs, Urban Future Lab , and the Fraunhofer USA TechBridge Program —is creating a first-of-its-kind collaborative ecosystem for carbontech startups and leading corporations with the end goal of making carbontech cost-effective and achieving its deployment at scale. “We

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Most people seem to believe some form of carbon capture and storage (CCS) will be necessary, although many are stil sceptical of an arguably “unproven” and ambitious technology. The environmental group also views it as an attempt by the fossil fuel industry to maintain some degree of business-as-usual.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2022

These are difficult for consumers to interpret and may also suggest an item or service has no negative environmental impacts. Carbon Offsets. The time frame for carbon-offset emission reductions should be included in the claim. That is, carbon offsetting gives emission reductions years beyond when the offsets were made.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

This article discusses measures the seafood industry can take in order to limit their negative impact on our world’s oceans. Reduce fossil fuel use. From litter and pollution to overfishing and habitat destruction, today’s unsustainable commercial fishing has a significant negative impact on the oceans’ ecosystems.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Biomass energy harnesses organic matter, including wood, agricultural crops, and waste by-products, as fuel. As we seek alternatives to fossil fuels, biomass holds significant potential due to its sustainability. Syngas can be subsequently burned to generate electricity or processed into transportation fuels.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

DRINKICKS DrinKicks is developing sneakers made from food waste and recycled materials in an effort to engage the sneaker-enthusiast community in circularity. gigatons of carbon by 2050 (through supporting the use of renewables) and can sequester 2.2 megatons of carbon in the same period. During ACCEL, florrent raised a $2.1M

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 10, 2022

Minimizing waste through reducing, reusing, and recycling and being more energy efficient will also lower your costs. Reducing carbon emissions caused by commuting and traveling saves money and your employees’ time. Institute a company-wide recycling and composting program beyond just the cafeteria. Tip#2: Reduce Traveling.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 13, 2020

The need for negative emission technologies ( NETs ) is becoming increasingly apparent in the wake of our failure to draw-down atmospheric greenhouse gases. It can also be recycled and used to make synthetic fuel. The first two suck carbon out of the air or water and the other two are used at source to capture carbon emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 4, 2022

billion tons of carbon dioxide annually. Below we’ve detailed eight tips on how to reduce the negative environmental and social impact of your fashion brand company. Plus synthetic fibers are fossil-fuel-derived. Tip #6: Reduce fossil fuel demand. Sustainable fashion has come to save the fashion industry.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 5, 2021

In order to limit the negative environmental impact, prudent businesses are seeking ways to address the top environmental issues in the construction industry: Improper waste disposal and management with very little recycling. Carbon emissions from operations, vehicles and material engineering. In the U.S.,

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In news this week, COP28 wraps up with a landmark agreement on transitioning away from fossil fuels, DOE announces a new office focused on AI, and over 2M Teslas were recalled.  100B of deals went down in the Permian basin and Shell abandoned a $100M per year carbon credit pipeline.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 15, 2021

Businesses and individuals need to do their part to neutralize mankind’s negative impact on our planet’s health. Unlike most North American Cloud providers that power their data centers with energy made from traditional energy sources including burning fossil fuels, 100 percent of the WHC’s cloud infrastructure is powered by green energy.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 23, 2020

Carbon capture technologies are an essential part of efforts to reduce climate change causing greenhouse gas emissions. The captured carbon can be sequestered underground or it can be used to make products that would be made anyway. CO2 is currently being used to extract oil from wells and captured carbon can also be turned into fuel.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2022

These are difficult for consumers to interpret and may also suggest an item or service has no negative environmental impacts. Carbon Offsets. The time frame for carbon-offset emission reductions should be included in the claim. That is, carbon offsetting gives emission reductions years beyond when the offsets were made.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Reduce emissions and divest from fossil fuels. Top Carbon Emission Contributors. Some of the major focus areas include reducing fossil fuel use, sustainable sourcing, accountability and transparency, and public education.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

  In deals, major funding for transportation including $144M for Indian EVs, $33M for rare earth-free magnets, and $15M for battery recycling.  Tech-enabled credits continue to constitute a big chunk of an anticipated $1T voluntary carbon market , and Oxy is on a development frenzy.   Thanks for reading!

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

For instance, the company’s just-published “ Energy Transition Progress report ” references chemicals right alongside “low carbon energy” and “renewable natural gas” as examples of the company’s stated commitment to lowering emissions. Town sign for Norco, Louisiana. Shell US did not respond to a request for comment from DeSmog. Shell Norco.

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Business Green

JANUARY 23, 2023

policy and carbon accounting are at risk of turning genuine ambition into business risk. Net zero legislation, the carbon budgets and renewable power deployment are real areas of leadership. Companies, increasingly aware of the implications of net zero, resist high carbon investments due to the inherent risks.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Researchers map emissions impact of high-carbon advertising, as Innocent is rapped by advertising regulator for ad that exaggerates environmental benefits of purchasing smoothies. The easiest way to start cutting carbon emissions is by ending the excesses that only happen because adverts are pushing higher consumption.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

There has been an estimated 6% drop in carbon emissions due to altered lifestyles in COVID-19. Reduce emissions and divest from fossil fuels. Top Carbon Emission Contributors. Some of the major focus areas include reducing fossil fuel use, sustainable sourcing, accountability and transparency, and public education.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The Massachusetts-based recycler uses anaerobic biodigesters to create renewable natural gas from food waste. Vanguard has seven recycling facilities in the Northeast plus one in Colorado and another in Georgia. Just like you recycle cardboard, and you recycle glass or plastics. Our goal is to say, 'No.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

That is the upbeat conclusion of a major new report today, which argues that while the chemicals industry currently lags behind many other sectors of the economy in terms of climate action, it has the potential to reinvent itself as a critical climate solution and even become carbon negative by 2040.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

AUGUST 1, 2021

Thanks to all the investors, donors, foundations and donor advised funds who invested with us last year: Woman-owned Earthly Labs working on industrial carbon capture and recycling and led by Amy George , Steelhead Composites in composite hydrogen storage with Andrew Coors at the helm, and.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2022

Meanwhile, academic studies have detailed how the emissions produced by clearing land and fertilising, farming, and shipping many 'energy crops' can be almost as large, and in some cases larger, than the emissions resulting from the fossil fuels they are designed to replace. Regulators and investors have taken note.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Upcoming policy decisions on plastic, carbon trading and carbon capture could see the waste sector become a major driver of regional decarbonisation, writes Enfinium's Mike Maudsley Just over a year ago, I made a significant - and positive - career change.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

We’ve been able to shift many environmental projects’ approaches to the home-scale, like home gardens, yard tree plantings and home recycling campaigns. . We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

AUGUST 1, 2021

Thanks to all the investors, donors, foundations and donor advised funds who invested with us last year: Woman-owned Earthly Labs working on industrial carbon capture and recycling and led by Amy George , Steelhead Composites in composite hydrogen storage with Andrew Coors at the helm, and.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 11, 2023

Records show that the company has lobbied during the past three years on California’s climate strategy, toxicity provisions, low carbon fuel standards, as well as its oil and gas production policies. Of the states WSPA represents, California produces the most crude oil by far.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 29, 2020

based think-tank Carbon Tracker show that 40% of EU coal plants ran at a loss in 2017. Stockholm Exergi CEO Anders Egelrud told PV Magazine he hopes the utility will eventually go carbon-negative. The plant opened in 1989. Statistics from the U.K.-based by 2024; and Ireland and Italy by 2025. ” Image via Steve Buissinne.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The automaker’s sustainability goals include sourcing energy only from renewable sources and getting at least half the materials in its vehicles from recycled, bio-based or renewable origins — by 2030 in the U.S. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. and globally by 2040.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 15, 2023

  But all this travel comes at a steep carbon cost. In part because air travel is such a technical marvel, engineering our way around direct emissions from burning fossil fuels strapped to those big jet engines on the wings is definitionally “hard to abate. In 2022, aviation accounted for 2% of global CO2 emissions.

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Clean Energy Trust

AUGUST 16, 2019

Decarbonize the electric grid (shift from fossil fuels like coal and natural gas to carbon-free sources like wind, solar, hydro, and nuclear, paired with storage and demand-side solutions), B. particularly technologies that make the most of the carbon that we continue to emit. This area is the subject of this post?—?particularly

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Business Green

MAY 1, 2020

Vattenfall Heat UK said it has secured the right to capture heat generated at the Belvedere waste incinerator in Bexley, South East London, in order to build a centralised heat network able to pipe low-carbon heat to roughly 10,500 local homes.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 15, 2022

“Sustainable manufacturing is the creation of manufactured products through economically-sound processes that minimize negative environmental impacts while conserving energy and natural resources. Most of this energy is produced by the burning of fossil fuels which releases a mass amount of carbon dioxide into the environment.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It’s vodka, made without any potatoes or grains, and the key ingredients are hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide. Last year, global carbon emissions hit an all-time high of 40.9 But all that carbon doesn’t have to wind up in the atmosphere. The resulting product has been blended into jet fuel and spun into synthetic fibers.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

By 2030, we will need to increase the amount of waste we recycle from 45 per cent to 70 per cent, choose to buy 15 million electric cars, and decide to install five times as much cavity wall insulation as we do today, according to the Climate Change Committee (CCC). The international dimension exacerbates this.

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