Last night, C-Crete Technologies won the annual MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition and $100,000 in start-up capital. The start-up has developed a method for producing a nanoengineered cement designed to be both stronger than traditional cement — and with a lower carbon footprint. “We believe our technology will make a significant impact on the world, and we look forward to growing [...]
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MIT $100K Winning Start-up Has Sustainability Aims
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Peter Senge Urges Collaboration on Sustainability Efforts
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What would it take to get rid of disposable cups? That was a question MIT Sloan senior lecturer Peter Senge raised in an interesting keynote address this morning at the MIT Sustainability Summit 2010. Senge, who is the author of well-known books such as The Fifth Discipline and The Necessary Revolution, focused on the need for collaboration among unlikely partners to achieve real progress on sustainability issues [...]
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Bill Gates on Sustainability at TED 2010
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Last week (was it only last week?), during our coverage of TED in Long Beach, we cited Bill Gates’ talk on innovating to a carbon-free future as one of the top presentations. You don’t have to take our word for it anymore, as the talk is now available for all to see:
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Quick Takes: Entrepreneurship Winner and Sustainability as Megatrend
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Quick Takes is our summary of news and readings in management, sustainability and intelligent enterprise. The $200k award of the MIT Clean Energy contest is “a head fake to get entrepreneurs to eat their vegetables” A profile of the annual MIT contest by the Boston Globe notes that of the 50 teams that been in the contest [...]
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