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Carbon-negative, climate-resilient home unveiled in the Bahamas

Envirotec Magazine

A building described as the world’s first carbon-negative ‘Home for the World’ has been showcased in Nassau, Bahamas, by Partanna Global, a developer of sustainable building materials. “Partanna’s technology forms chemical compounds that interact with and capture atmospheric CO2.” home will actively remove and avoid 182.6

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Blenheim Estate project aims to boost reforestation effectiveness

Envirotec Magazine

Factors including a European shortage of available seeds and tree-stock, changing climate, changing soil conditions and low seedling survival rates are negatively impacting reforestation efforts at historical estates like Blenheim.

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Greentown Sector Pitch Day Highlights Solutions for Agricultural Decarbonization and Resilience

Greentown Labs

Agricultural practices routinely involve large-scale monocrop operations that negatively impact soil health and utilize unsustainable chemical practices, producing harmful waste streams. Clearly, there’s a tremendous opportunity to rethink and improve our entire food system to address both its negative climate and social impacts.

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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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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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Why contractors and installers should care about energy resilience

Mosaic

First, what exactly is energy resilience? And why should solar installers and home improvement contractors care about resilient energy? The stats show that homeowners are seeking out renewable systems and battery storage to increase their energy resilience and protect their power supply during natural crises.

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Why contractors and installers should care about energy resilience ?

Mosaic

First, what exactly is energy resilience? And why should solar installers and home improvement contractors care about resilient energy? The stats show that homeowners are seeking out renewable systems and battery storage to increase their energy resilience and protect their power supply during natural crises.