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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

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. Somerville, Mass., and Houston, Texas, Sept. Somerville, Mass.,

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Greentown Go Build 2023 with Saint-Gobain Announces Startup Cohort

Greentown Labs

Throughout the program, startups will benefit from mentorship, networking opportunities, educational workshops, and partnership-focused programming to support collaboration. With incubators in Somerville, Mass. and Houston, Texas, Jan. These startups have collectively created more than 11,000 jobs and raised more than $5.7

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Greentown Labs Announces Go Move 2022 with BASF and Magna

Greentown Labs

That’s why BASF , Magna , and Greentown Labs have partnered to launch Greentown Go Move 2022 —a startup-corporate partnerships accelerator that’s seeking applications from startups with material and recycling process innovations that decarbonize the lifecycle impact of the automotive industry. About Greentown Labs.

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Greentown Go Move 2022 with BASF and Magna Announces Startup Cohort Focused on Automotive Industry Decarbonization

Greentown Labs

Throughout the program, startups will benefit from mentorship, networking opportunities, educational workshops, and partnership-focused programming to support their collaborations. Endeavor Composites (Knoxville, TN, U.S.): MITO Materials Solutions (Indianapolis, IN, U.S.): To learn more, visit the Go Move 2022 website. ###.

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Greentown Labs and Browning the Green Space Announce Inaugural 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. The program, which is designed to support underrepresented founders, welcomes six startups Somerville, Mass., and Houston, Texas, Feb. Active Surfaces (Salem, Mass.)

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Teens fight food deserts as Urban Chicken Whisperers

Greenability Magazine

Nearly a year later, the self-proclaimed Urban Chicken Whisperers have created public displays, educational videos and chicken coops made from recycled and repurposed materials. In phase one, they created and installed three educational chicken displays about food deserts, raising chickens and egg nutrition.

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