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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. Electricity Active Surfaces develops an ultra-lightweight, flexible solar technology for the built environment. Aquasaic , an ACCEL Year 2 startup, is harnessing biology to clean water for planetary and human health.

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Google and C40 cities launch carbon-free energy pilot

Smart Energy International

Pursuing 24/7 CFE means aiming to meet every kilowatt-hour of electricity consumption with carbon-free sources, every hour of every day, every day of the year. The announcement sees C40 Cities join forces with Google to launch the 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy for Cities programme. Piloting CFE.

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UK's Connected Kerb selected to charge-up ambitious New York EV charger pilot

Business Green

Curbside charging pilot could provide a blueprint for New York City to rollout 10,000 on-street chargers by 2030, cutting emissions and improving air quality for millions. In 2021, around 15,000 EVs were registered in the city, with over 5,000 of these sold in 2020 alone.

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Insights and Excitements from Our 2020 Pipeline

Elemental Excelerator

In fact, from Numina’s curb-level data collection helping cities develop insights into social distancing and mobility behaviors to Kando’s wastewater monitoring technology helping to detect and pinpoint the source of coronavirus outbreaks , it’s clear that climate innovation and public health often go hand-in-hand.

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Distributed intelligence for a DER-based grid

Smart Energy International

Intelligence in smart meters and other IoT edge compute network devices, whereby applications utilize analytics to provide near real-time situational awareness and localized control, is set to play a key role in the operation and ever-increasing adoption of renewables and electric vehicles, is discussed by Itron’s Wassim Akhdar and Nick Phillips.

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SDG17, coronavirus, and the battle for a collaborative future

Business Green

But none of that has stopped President Trump and some of his allies doubling down on their short-termist, science-rejecting, overtly populist tactics, presumably in the hope they can scapegoat their way out of the escalating economic, health, and social crisis. Meanwhile, a fightback is gathering momentum.

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Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board

EDF + Business

Prior to his current role he worked as scientist in a public health lab, and as post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California. Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication. (He/Him/His)