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Greentown Go Build 2023 with Saint-Gobain Announces Startup Cohort

Greentown Labs

Innovation in the building sector is critical to achieving decarbonization, as the sector is responsible for 40 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions. To change this, we need innovations that reinvent how buildings and their materials are planned, built, sourced, and managed. and Houston, Texas, Jan. and Houston, Texas, Jan.

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Greentown Labs and Browning the Green Space Announce Second Cohort for ACCEL, an Accelerator for BIPOC-led Climatetech Startups

Greentown Labs

These early-stage startups are working on innovations from vertical-axis wind turbines to carbon-negative concrete. Axis Sky Renewables (Houston, Texas) creates innovative wind solutions, specializing in vertical-axis wind turbines that are less expensive to produce, deploy, and maintain than traditional wind turbines.

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Eavor completes $182 million equity round to advance closed-loop geothermal

ThinkGeoEnergy

(Eavor) has announced the successful completion of $182 million in funding following an equity round led by OMV AG , with participation from Canada Growth Fund (CGF), Japan Energy Fund, Monaco Asset Management and Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. completed the conversion of their debentures.

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Greentown Labs Announces Location of New Incubator in Houston’s Innovation District

Greentown Labs

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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Sustainability in Healthcare: How Telemedicine and Virtual Meetings Reduce Emissions and Waste

Green Business Bureau

Healthcare Industry Sustainability. While most changes have been negative–canceled or delayed surgeries, intensive care units filled to maximum capacity, and provider burnout–the rise of telemedicine, virtual care, and remote monitoring is considered a silver lining by many patients and healthcare providers alike. Medical Economics.

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New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion

GreenBiz

A sustainability strategy is no longer an option, it is now table stakes. Such an approach focuses on maximizing positive and minimizing negative aspects of nature-based adaptation strategies and options. They’ve been committed to sustainability for decades and a U.N. Science Based Targets Network, 2020.

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Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni

GreenBiz

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).