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DrinKicks is Transforming—and Decarbonizing—Sneaker Culture with Plant-leather Shoes and Education

Greentown Labs

Michael Fletcher and Kristeen Reynolds are bringing their passion for sneaker culture, circularity, and community engagement to the pavement with DrinKicks —a startup turning food waste and recycled materials into shoes with 89 percent lower carbon emissions than their cow-leather counterparts. Think again.

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Greentown Labs Announces Location of New Incubator in Houston’s Innovation District

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North America’s largest climatetech incubator will expand to Houston’s Innovation District to accelerate the clean energy transition and reveals Microsoft, Rice Management Company, Saint-Gobain, Direct Energy, Naturgy, and FCC Environmental Services as additional partners. Somerville, Mass., and Houston, Texas, Sept. Somerville, Mass.,

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Electrify America details plan to invest $200 million more in EVSE, ports and EV education

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Electrify America has committed to invest $800 million in EVSE and education programs in California, in four cycles over 10 years. Renewable generation for select stations as site-level energy management tools to help to reduce station operating costs and reduce carbon consumption. Source: Electrify America.

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Greentown Labs Announces Go Make 2023 Program with Shell

Greentown Labs

The partnerships-focused accelerator is accepting applications from startups with innovations for carbon utilization, storage, and traceability Somerville, Mass. Designed to accelerate startup-corporate partnerships to advance climatetech, this Greentown Go program is focused on technologies for carbon utilization, storage, and traceability.

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Greentown Go Build 2023 with Saint-Gobain Announces Startup Cohort

Greentown Labs

Carbon Upcycling Technologies (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a circular-decarbonization solution for hard-to-abate industries–-utilizing low-purity industrial CO 2 and industrial byproducts to decarbonize cement. manufactures and distributes biobased building materials, including a low-embodied-carbon insulation.

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The Carbon to Value Initiative Announces Year 3 of the Initiative’s Carbontech Accelerator Program

Greentown Labs

31, 2023 —The Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V Initiative) and its Carbontech Leadership Council (CLC), enthusiastically announce the third year of the C2V Initiative’s world-class carbontech accelerator program. Houston, Texas; and New York City, N.Y., C above pre-industrial levels. DAC) or point source (esp.

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Greentown Go Make 2023 with Shell Announces Startup Cohort 

Greentown Labs

The accelerator will advance six startups’ climatetech solutions and foster potential partnerships with Shell in carbon utilization, storage, and traceability Somerville, Mass. As part of its technology portfolio, Shell invests in net-zero-carbon and carbon-removal technologies to mitigate and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.