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Project aims to reduce impact of ammonia emissions from livestock

Envirotec Magazine

The PigProGrAm project includes Membracon’s Downflow Gas Contactor (DGC), described as “a patented technology that excels in a wide variety of gas separation applications, such as industrial carbon capture.”. This project could be appled in multiple areas of pig farming operations, including feed.

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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. Puro Renewables upcycles carbon-negative biowaste to reduce the amount of fossil-fuel-based resin and carbon footprint associated with typical plastic products. It’s participating in Year 2 of ACCEL.

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

ThinkGeoEnergy

This equity round also represents the first grant awarded by the Canada Growth Fund, a $15 billion federal program that supports low-carbon initiatives. On our journey to becoming carbon negative by 2030, we recognize that innovation and collaboration are fundamental to how we build a more sustainable world.

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Something in the air

Envirotec Magazine

The system employs a proprietary formulation of carbon nanoparticles (“carbon dots”) capable of sensing gas molecules and detecting bacteria through the volatile metabolites these microorganisms emit into the air, according to lead researcher Raz Jelinek.

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Specialist firm develops eco-solution for Japanese knotweed waste

Envirotec Magazine

The creation of biochar, a charcoal used as a soil amendment, from Japanese knotweed plant waste is a carbon negative process which harnesses the carbon-scavenging power of Japanese knotweed in a positive way and contributes to the fight against climate change by locking carbon away for thousands of years.

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Meet the #C2VInitiative Startups On the Forefront of Carbontech

Greentown Labs

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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Dealing sensibly with knotweed (with a nod to emissions)

Envirotec Magazine

We can now harness the carbon scavenging power of Japanese knotweed and other invasive plants, explains Nic Seal, Founder and MD of Environet, a UK specialist in the topic. From one tonne of knotweed rhizome (wet weight) we can create around 150-200kg of charcoal which is 99% pure carbon.

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