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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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The ‘why’ and ‘how’ of carbon capture technology for buildings

Envirotec Magazine

Soletair Power (Finland) has developed a seemingly unique solution for extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) from building ventilation systems to help achieve carbon net zero and even carbon negative building projects. Are carbon-negative buildings possible? The Power-to-X unit being demonstrated.

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Microsoft’s AI obsession is jeopardizing its climate ambitions

The Verge: Energy

Training and running AI models is an increasingly energy-hungry endeavor , and the impact that’s having on the climate is just starting to come into view. In many ways the moon is five times as far away as it was in 2020” Back in 2020, Microsoft set a target of becoming carbon negative by the end of the decade.

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How To Buy Carbon Offsets: 6 Certified and Vetted Options

Green Business Bureau

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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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. Hub Controls ’ award-winning personal energy-management system, Hub Controller, saves customers money by knowing when their heating and cooling systems need to run—and, more importantly, when they can be turned off.

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Ocean Heat and Carbon Drains to Cool and Energize the Planet.

Energy Central

A team of climate researchers lead by David Keller of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and 12 other institutions investigated negative emission technologies with regard to their economic and social potential per the following graphic by Rita Erven of GEOMAR.

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A bad bet on biomass? Critics respond to Drax announcement

Envirotec Magazine

Cooling towers at the Drax power plant in North Yorkshire. UK energy utility Drax has unveiled plans to build the world’s largest carbon capture facility with the goal of removing more CO2 from the atmosphere than it produces, and thereby securing “carbon negative” status.