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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

GreenBiz

Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan. The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies. We know this current crisis is a preview or warm-up act for a climate-changing world.

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

Greentown Labs

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. mixed-use space that anchors the Innovation District.

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Greentown Labs Opens its Houston Incubator on Earth Day

Greentown Labs

Houston’s first-ever climatetech incubator hosts its outdoor, hybrid Grand Opening event and ribbon cutting ceremony featuring Houston Mayor Turner and other regional energy leaders. in the innovation district being developed by Rice Management Company, Greentown Houston provides more than 40,000 sq. Things have changed.

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Greentown Labs and Browning the Green Space Announce Second Cohort for ACCEL, an Accelerator for BIPOC-led Climatetech Startups

Greentown Labs

ACCEL combines startup acceleration with a curated curriculum, incubation at Greentown, and extensive mentorship from Greentown and BGS’s networks of industry experts. These early-stage startups are working on innovations from vertical-axis wind turbines to carbon-negative concrete. and Houston, Texas, Feb. Aquasaic (Cambridge, Mass.)

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Greentown Labs and Browning the Green Space Open Applications for Year 2 of the ACCEL Program to Support BIPOC Founders

Greentown Labs

The recurring, year-long program is accepting applications from BIPOC entrepreneurs developing solutions to the climate crisis Somerville, Mass. The year-long program combines acceleration with a curated curriculum, incubation at Greentown, and extensive mentorship from Greentown and BGS’s networks of industry experts.

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DOE Clean Energy Programs Vital to American Innovation, Competitiveness?—?and Jobs

E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

DOE Clean Energy Programs Vital to American Innovation, Competitiveness?—?and and Jobs Our federal government is failing us in many ways when it comes to addressing climate change and advancing clean energy. One area that is working: The Department of Energy’s ability to seed and grow clean energy innovation?—?innovation

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Building a Cleantech Innovation Community – Together

Greentown Labs

In the Northeast cleantech ecosystem, we talk a lot about the many ways the members of our community intersect, collaborate, and partner to drive innovation and tackle our world’s biggest climate, clean energy, and environmental challenges.