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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.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q4 2022

Greentown Labs

Renew CO 2 offers cost-competitive, carbon-negative monoethylene glycol. Sustonable mixes post-consumer recycled plastic bottles, recycled glass, and natural stone to create a circular, high-quality surface material that can be used for kitchen tops, wall panels, and furniture.

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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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How Sustainability Innovation Is Driving The Green Economy

Green Business Bureau

The green economy operates on low carbon power sources, resource efficiency, and social fairness and inclusivity. Using their patented algorithms, Replate is able to locate food donors, connect them with nearby food rescuers and propose the most efficient path to distribute the food. GREEN COMPANIES TO RECOGNIZE. Smog Armor.

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Ice rink alternatives and their environmental impact

AGreenLiving

When the 1890s rolled around, the rush to patent ice rink surfaces began and has not abated since. The main refrigerants associated with most ice-making equipment include chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), hydrocarbons, ammonia and carbon dioxide.

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WCS Talks Part Four: Celebrating Creativity, Nurturing, Community and Mentorship on Mother’s Day Weekend

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Moreover, Youngman’s slides tracked dramatically increased corporate commitments announced in 2020 towards net zero and/or science based carbon reduction targets, most of which seemed unimaginable just two to three years ago. In 2020, she set herself the goal of living carbon neutral. Saving the World – with Plastic!”.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q3 2021

Greentown Labs

Twenty startups joined our community in Q3 2021, working on innovations as diverse as carbon-negative fats, energy-efficient membrane materials for chemical separations, and scalable electric vehicle charging solutions for high-density urban settings. Circe Bioscience tailor-makes fats through a carbon negative fermentation process.

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