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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2024

Greentown Labs

Twenty-four startups joined our community in Q1 2024, working on innovations ranging from biobased building materials, to sustainable rubber, to solar-powered flight. Electricity Active Surfaces develops an ultra-lightweight, flexible solar technology for the built environment. 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.

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Top five green innovations to watch in 2022

Business Green

We have a fantastic opportunity as we recover from the pandemic to build an economy and society which is greener, fairer and more resilient. It fuels IoT devices using solar PV panels that are powered from indoor light sources and is six times more efficient than previous iterations of artificial light harvesting technologies.

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Human Nature: Insights from Interactive 2022

Elemental Excelerator

In a conversation with Ryan Panchadsaram, co-author of Speed & Scale with John Doerr and Advisor at Kleiner Perkins, Elemental’s CEO Dawn Lippert set the theme of the day: “Entrepreneurs are one of the most powerful accelerants driving us towards driving down the gigatons.” ” — Jason Salfi ( Dimensional Energy ).

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Tires are saving us — and killing us, too

The Verge: Energy

Every major tire manufacturer globally is raising its game — not only in terms of performance in the face of bigger, heavier electric cars but also in terms of environmental impact. This is also a climate resiliency play. It’s a depressing state of affairs, but there is room for optimism. When it rains, it is carried away.

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Environment Agency chief Sir James Bevan: 'The water crisis is a ticking time bomb for the UK'

Business Green

Meanwhile new threats are seeping into our waters, including microplastics and so-called forever chemicals. But our ability to protect our waters depends on us having the powers and resources to do that, and that hasn't always been the case. Campaigners are right to be saying that this is not good enough.