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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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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

This article will cover the Holocene—the era of conditions that enabled society to grow and thrive, the theory of the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, tipping points, and resilience thinking while urging readers to consider their impact and how to secure the future they want. The Anthropocene: Pushing Society Past Its Limits. The Holocene.

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Episode 235: The value of informal waste collectors, reusable packaging prevails

GreenBiz

It's time to value waste collectors for their pivotal role in the plastic supply chain. Today's carbon-negative fuel. Why placing environment, social and governance principles at the center of COVID-19 recovery places makes sense for resilience and the bottom line. Safety and performance in recycled plastics.

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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. Resiliency + Adaptation.

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New Report Highlights Pesticides’ Overlooked Climate Connection

DeSmogBlog

Not only do pesticides directly contribute to the climate crisis, but a changing climate is likely to intensify pressure from agricultural pests and decrease plant resiliency, resulting in greater pesticide usage and therefore further greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report.

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Vodka made from captured carbon dioxide? That’s the spirit.

Grist

Crystal-clear liquid flows from the array into big plastic drums, which chemists wheel toward a tall metal still. It’s vodka, made without any potatoes or grains, and the key ingredients are hydrogen and captured carbon dioxide. Last year, global carbon emissions hit an all-time high of 40.9 billion tons (37.1 billion tons (37.1

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Lessons from 3 emerging bio-based material technologies

GreenBiz

Sourcing algae from sustainable seaweed farmers that capture carbon as they grow their crop, Loliware is working to manufacture a variety of bio-based polymers. Although the pandemic has disrupted hospitality and demand, Loliware has used the lull to advance its technology and scale manufacturing with a mission to overturn legacy plastics.