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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. It is up to us to innovate and advocate to make the right choices. Innovation.

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3 ways companies are signaling for climate innovation

EDF + Business

Although the private sector’s willingness to act on climate has never been stronger, there nevertheless remains a sizable innovation gap in realizing the corporate commitments aligned with the Paris Agreement. Often, these commitments specify price, volume, and/or time.

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SpadXTech Aims to Disrupt Vegan Leather Market with Plastic-free, Carbon-negative Material

Greentown Labs

But pleather and vegan leather bring their own problems as well, as these alternatives are usually made from plastics. Plastic pollution is part of what pushed Lina M. The post SpadXTech Aims to Disrupt Vegan Leather Market with Plastic-free, Carbon-negative Material first appeared on Greentown Labs.

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Greentown Go Build 2023 with Saint-Gobain Announces Startup Cohort

Greentown Labs

Innovation in the building sector is critical to achieving decarbonization, as the sector is responsible for 40 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions. To change this, we need innovations that reinvent how buildings and their materials are planned, built, sourced, and managed. and Houston, Texas, Jan. and Houston, Texas, Jan.

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Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation and Greentown Labs Launch the KAITEKI Challenge, Reimagining Proteins, Plastics, and Packaging

Greentown Labs

Corporate partnership accelerator program seeks innovations from startups in alternative proteins, waste plastics recycling, and prevention of food loss and waste. MCHC’s businesses include bioplastics, plastic films and sheets, food ingredients, and healthcare, among many others. SOMERVILLE, Mass., SOMERVILLE, Mass.,

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Circular economy startups compete at Circularity 2020, taking on shoes to shelf-life

GreenBiz

But it will take new, innovative ideas to build a global system that uses and reuses all of the resources within it and moves us away from the deeply entrenched extractive system under which the modern world functions. Salubata is a Nigerian startup that creates modular shoes from recycled plastic waste. Innovation. Holly Secon.

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Celebrating World Ocean Day

Energy and Cleantech Council

In honor of World Ocean Day, we take a moment to celebrate our client SeaAhead , a bluetech startup platform connecting and supporting bluetech companies and partners to help improve ocean health through innovation. What is Bluetech? Spotlight on SeaAhead.

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