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How Stripe’s ‘negative emissions’ team picked its first four carbon removal projects

GreenBiz

How Stripe’s ‘negative emissions’ team picked its first four carbon removal projects. Among the many notes to myself about potential follow-up stories lies my scribbled reminder to check in on online payment tech company Stripe’s pledge last year to put at least $1 million annually toward carbon removal activities.

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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

The recurring, year-long program welcomes seven startups led by underrepresented founders Somerville, Mass. The recurring, year-long program welcomes seven startups led by underrepresented founders Somerville, Mass. These early-stage startups are working on innovations from vertical-axis wind turbines to carbon-negative concrete.

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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. We’re thrilled to support these groundbreaking climatetech startups—let us introduce you!

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Carbontech is getting ready for its market moment

GreenBiz

This morning, digital payments company Stripe announced a plan to let its merchant customers divert a portion of their revenue to carbon removal projects. Startups in this particular corner of the climate solutions area have not actually been supported in a commercial way. Makes me want to host my own personal blog there.

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Go Move 2022 Startups, BASF, and Magna Collaborate to Decarbonize the Automotive Industry

Greentown Labs

Greentown Go Move 2022 brought BASF and Magna together with five climatetech startups to advance solutions that decarbonize the automotive industry’s life-cycle impact. A group of experienced startup mentors and industry experts, including from BASF and Magna, provided valuable guidance to the cohort’s founding teams.

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Ocean-based sequestration heats ups

GreenBiz

Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints. Investing in forests can be a win-win that both sequesters carbon and regenerates nature. Let’s start with costs.

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Meet the startup producing oil to fight climate change

Grist

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. Strange as it may sound, demand for this service — a form of what’s called “ carbon removal ” — was just beginning to grow.