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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. Tom Baruch. Tue, 06/23/2020 - 01:30. Back to normal is not an option.

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Orlando's journey to accelerate sustainability and resilience

GreenBiz

Orlando's journey to accelerate sustainability and resilience. I'm also a social entrepreneur, community organizer and now director of sustainability and resilience for the city of Orlando. Chris Castro. Thu, 03/11/2021 - 01:00. I’m a second-generation Cuban-American from Miami.

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Greentown Labs Opens its Houston Incubator on Earth Day

Greentown Labs

Houston’s first-ever climatetech incubator hosts its outdoor, hybrid Grand Opening event and ribbon cutting ceremony featuring Houston Mayor Turner and other regional energy leaders. in the innovation district being developed by Rice Management Company, Greentown Houston provides more than 40,000 sq. Somerville, Mass.,

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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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Building a Cleantech Innovation Community – Together

Greentown Labs

In the Northeast cleantech ecosystem, we talk a lot about the many ways the members of our community intersect, collaborate, and partner to drive innovation and tackle our world’s biggest climate, clean energy, and environmental challenges.

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Greentown Labs Appoints Aisling Carlson to Senior Vice President of Partnerships

Greentown Labs

Experienced startup executive will spearhead partnership strategy to support the incubator’s next stage of growth and climate impact Somerville, Mass. and Houston, Texas, June 29, 2023 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech incubator in North America, today announced Aisling Carlson as its Senior Vice President (SVP) of Partnerships.

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A Vibrant Cleantech Startup Ecosystem Takes Root in India

GreenTechMedia

In response, a vibrant ecosystem of sustainability-oriented startups, investors and incubators is taking shape in India today. Universities, incubators, investors and the public sector weren’t aligned on how to incentivize innovation, discover entrepreneurs and help researchers build a business. But that’s changing.

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