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#Greentown10: 10 Years of Partnerships for Climate Action

Greentown Labs

Member-partner collaborations run the gamut, from a global commercial agreement between Salient Predictions and BASF , to a pilot project between Raptor Maps and Enel , to a customer deal between SteamIQ and Toray Plastics that also involved National Grid. Now, Saint-Gobain is doing the same for our new Greentown Houston incubator.

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Modernist Bata shoe factory transforms into geothermal-powered homes

AGreenLiving

Although the modernist-style factory had been decommissioned in 2000 and sold to a plastics factory, Sonja Bata repurchased the 1,500-acre site in 2008 as part of an ambitious masterplan to transform Batawa into a model of sustainable development. Geothermal energy powers all of the HVAC systems.