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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q3 2022

Greentown Labs

Fourteen startups joined our community in the third quarter of 2022, working on innovations as diverse as a carbontech solution for aluminum manufacturing, an AI platform for tracking scope 1 and scope 3 vehicle emissions, and waste-biomass-turned-biochar for replacing cement. Manufacturing.

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Swiss sports brand creates shoe from captured carbon

Business Green

Using a combination of cutting-edge genetic engineering, state-of-the-art biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and innovations in mechanical and chemical engineering the companies to manufacture chemicals using a process that soaks up waste carbon, rather than emitting it.

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XpreSole Panto waterproof boots are made from coffee grounds

AGreenLiving

Footwear is a major source of post-consumer waste. Another daily-use product, coffee, also contributes to environmental waste to the tune of around 25 billion kilograms annually. Called XpreSole Panto, the boots are available in high-top or low-top options made with upcycled coffee grounds collected from local coffee shops in Taiwan.

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'It could be a turning point': Cambridge engineers claim zero carbon cement making breakthrough

Business Green

An innovative new zero emissions process that uses renewable electricity to recycle steel and cement could overcome one of the "hardest challenges on the journey to a safe climate with zero emissions", according to University of Cambridge developers behind the technology. to further develop the underlying science behind the process.

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Global Briefing: US Senate backs plan to make daylight saving time permanent

Business Green

US daylight saving changes, Qatari recycling islands, and Dutch offshore wind farms, all feature in this week's round up of green business news from around the world. Green Island: Qatar announces plans for first recycling hub. Awareness sessions for people that are yet to start recycling.