Fall 2023: Clean Crop Technologies Awarded Manufacturer of the Year & More
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Jo Norris, co-founder of Carbon Reform – a company developing modular carbon capture systems for commercial buildings to reduce CO2 and contaminant levels in the built environment – shared her perspectives on the intersection of indoor air quality, health, and equity in a My Climate Journey Community Voices piece.
Congratulations to Clean Crop Technologies, which recently won the Manufacturer of the Year award from the Massachusetts Legislature’s Manufacturing Caucus. Clean Crop’s proprietary ‘Clean Current’ technology combines electricity and food-grade gasses to remove contaminants from seeds and foods to increase crop yields, reduce food waste, and improve food safety.
Matt Maroon, CEO of C-Motive Technologies, joined MarketScale to discuss how electrostatic motors can help accelerate decarbonization. And, in July, C-Motive won an award from the Department of Energy’s Energy Program for Innovation Clusters (EPIC Prize). C-Motive is developing electrostatic motors for electric vehicle applications.
Founder and CEO Colin Averill of Funga, a company optimizing the microbiome of tree roots to accelerate growth, storing carbon in wood and soil, was profiled in Forbes.
Vince Romanin, CEO of Gradient, spoke about the potential of heat pump technology in IEEE Spectrum. Gradient is building a climate-friendly hybrid heating and cooling unit to push the building sector toward zero carbon.
Lilac Solutions, which is scaling lithium supply for the electric era, spoke with CNBC to talk about their direct lithium extraction technology.
MicroByre CEO Sarah Richardson sat down with the Federation of American Scientists for an interview about the US bioeconomy and biomanufacturing sector. MicroByre uses synthetic biology to replace petro-feedstocks in biomanufacturing.
Bloomberg profiled low-carbon cement company Sublime Systems in this 5-minute video, where co-founder and CEO Leah Ellis talked about the urgency and challenges of scaling production. CNBC also profiled Sublime and Leah.
Twelve, a company replacing the use of petrochemicals in everyday products with CO2, renewable energy, and water, has recently been covered by The Seattle Times, Canary Media, Flight Global, GeekWire, Aviation International News, and the Columbia Basin Herald.