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- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 08/30/2025A Look at Building Companies. Insulation plays a pivotal role in energy conservation, with inadequate insulation leading to increased energy use for heating and cooling. Energy control, through smart systems and designs, can optimize power consumption, mitigating emissions from electricity sources. Till next week we aim to explore startups across nine sectors: from Transportation yesterday ,…
- CD Original Article · Tessa Peerless · 02/19/2025Today, we’re use the fascinating world of cement to see how offtake agreements can make or break a climate startup. Cement might not sound glamorous, but it’s responsible for a 8% of global CO₂ emissions, so if we want to cut carbon fast, cement is exactly where we need to look. But why aren’t we seeing more carbon-free cement offtake? Buckle up: from messy stakeholder ecosystems to razor-thin…
- CD Original Article · Jennie Montano · 02/17/2025Have you thought about ditching your gas furnace or car and electrifying your home, only to be stopped by sticker shock or a maze of choices? If so, you’re not alone. The good news: plenty of homeowners are cracking the code on all-electric, zero-carbon living. Take Jennie Montano, for example. Jennie is a homeowner in Austin, Texas, who recently decided to transform her 1970s bungalow into a…
Construction
- CD Original Article · Tessa Peerless · 05/29/2026From Heat Pumps to Financing Hacks: Your Crash Course in Decarbonising Existing Buildings.Buildings are the quietly humming giants of the carbon ledger. Every time a furnace kicks on or an office tower’s lights flicker to life, we add to an emissions tab that already reaches 39 % of global CO₂: 28 % from simply running the places we live and work, and another 11 % baked into their concrete,…
Construction › Building Materials
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 08/30/2025A Look at Building Companies. Insulation plays a pivotal role in energy conservation, with inadequate insulation leading to increased energy use for heating and cooling. Energy control, through smart systems and designs, can optimize power consumption, mitigating emissions from electricity sources. Till next week we aim to explore startups across nine sectors: from Transportation yesterday ,…
- CD Original Article · Tessa Peerless · 05/29/2026If you’ve ever thought of cement as “just that boring grey stuff holding up buildings,” you’re in for a surprise. Today, we’re diving into one of the most important climate challenges: decarbonizing cement. Cement isn’t just the backbone of modern infrastructure; it’s also responsible for a staggering 8-9% of global emissions. That’s four times the emissions of the aviation industry and on par…
Construction › Building Code
- CD Original Article · Gillian Wildfire · 02/10/2025This week, we’re zooming in on Los Angeles, where devastating wildfires recently took out over 16,000+ homes and displaced 200,000+ residents. Here’s the question everyone’s asking: Should we even rebuild in areas that are practically guaranteed to burn again? The answer isn’t a simple yes or no. In fact, LA’s already got some pretty great tools to help future-proof homes: stricter building…
Building Envelope › Insulation
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 08/30/2025A Look at Building Companies. Insulation plays a pivotal role in energy conservation, with inadequate insulation leading to increased energy use for heating and cooling. Energy control, through smart systems and designs, can optimize power consumption, mitigating emissions from electricity sources. Till next week we aim to explore startups across nine sectors: from Transportation yesterday ,…
Heating
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 08/30/2025A Look at Building Companies. Insulation plays a pivotal role in energy conservation, with inadequate insulation leading to increased energy use for heating and cooling. Energy control, through smart systems and designs, can optimize power consumption, mitigating emissions from electricity sources. Till next week we aim to explore startups across nine sectors: from Transportation yesterday ,…
- Company · 05/27/2025Blue Heart Energy is currently developing the first heat pump for residential use based on a Thermo Acoustic (TA) heat engine, a toxic-free, flexible and highly efficient solution. Its technology has been designed to be easily integrated by OEMs and system integrators in existing heating/cooling heat pumps, enabling a smooth market adoption.
- Company · Skander Garroum · 05/29/2026Europe’s heating crisis is hiding in plain sight: 130 million fossil fuel boilers still warm homes across the continent, guzzling gas and pumping out 10% of Europe’s total CO₂ emissions. Heat pumps offer the obvious fix (they’re 4x more efficient) but adoption has crawled due to €7,000 upfront costs and installation headaches. Enter Aira: Swedish startup turning heat pumps into monthly…
Heating › Heat pumps
- CD Original Article · Jennie Montano · 02/17/2025Have you thought about ditching your gas furnace or car and electrifying your home, only to be stopped by sticker shock or a maze of choices? If so, you’re not alone. The good news: plenty of homeowners are cracking the code on all-electric, zero-carbon living. Take Jennie Montano, for example. Jennie is a homeowner in Austin, Texas, who recently decided to transform her 1970s bungalow into a…
- CD Original Article · Joseph DeNatale · 05/29/2026Here’s the situation: You’re standing in your basement at 9pm on a Tuesday in January. Your furnace just died. You’re cold, you’re stressed, and there’s a guy in a Carhartt jacket who just showed up telling you it’ll cost $8,000 to fix. You don’t know anything about HVAC. You don’t know this guy. You can’t tell good work from bad work. So you optimize for the only thing you can evaluate: Does…
Cooling
- CD Original Article · Skander Garroum · 08/30/2025A Look at Building Companies. Insulation plays a pivotal role in energy conservation, with inadequate insulation leading to increased energy use for heating and cooling. Energy control, through smart systems and designs, can optimize power consumption, mitigating emissions from electricity sources. Till next week we aim to explore startups across nine sectors: from Transportation yesterday ,…
- Company · 05/27/2025Blue Heart Energy is currently developing the first heat pump for residential use based on a Thermo Acoustic (TA) heat engine, a toxic-free, flexible and highly efficient solution. Its technology has been designed to be easily integrated by OEMs and system integrators in existing heating/cooling heat pumps, enabling a smooth market adoption.
Software
- Company · 05/27/2025Legacy, based in Copenhagen, is dedicated to simplifying sustainability for real estate owners by streamlining their data organization and collection. With commercial real estate owners confronting evolving compliance and sustainability demands, Legacy offers a fully auditable CO2 accounting platform. This ensures transparent and reliable data exportation in line with regulatory changes.…