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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

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. It’s participating in Year 2 of ACCEL.

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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.

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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 part of the C2V Initiative Year 3 cohort.

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BIPOC Entrepreneurs Present their Climatetech Solutions at ACCEL Showcase

Greentown Labs

Active Surfaces is working to make these innovations possible. Ultracapacitors complement batteries in the grid-scale use of renewable energy, and by supporting locally farmed hemp, the startup says it’s both sequestering carbon in hemp and “sequestering wealth” in the farmers’ communities. megatons of carbon in the same period.

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There is a construction-shaped hole in our global efforts to combat climate change

Clean Energy Canada

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. Cement and concrete can be made with lower-carbon fuels. million gas-fuelled cars.

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Old coffee roastery to be reborn as a net-zero carbon office in London

AGreenLiving

The local planning council for London’s Vauxhall district has recently given the green light for an adaptive reuse scheme to transform a disused Costa Coffee roastery into a six-story, net-zero carbon office development. The adaptive reuse proposal is also on target for almost 60 years of a negative carbon footprint.

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