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<p>Clean technology is any process, product, or service that reduces
negative environmental impacts through significant energy efficiency
improvements, the sustainable use of resources, or environmental
protection activities.</p>
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<p>The goal of this list is to gather a list of awesome companies
fighting climate change, as well as collecting research about the issues
and solutions connected to it.</p>
<p><em>Contributions to this list are welcome! Just edit the <a
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<h2 id="contents">Contents</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#companies">Companies</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#vegetation--agriculture">Vegetation &amp;
Agriculture</a></li>
<li><a href="#food">Food</a></li>
<li><a href="#materials">Materials</a></li>
<li><a href="#water">Water</a></li>
<li><a href="#energy">Energy</a></li>
<li><a href="#social-impact">Social Impact</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="#more-resources">More Resources</a></li>
<li><a href="#research">Research</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="companies">Companies</h2>
<p>The format for companies is the following:</p>
<pre><code>- [Company Name](URL) | Based in | Founded Year

Short description.</code></pre>
<h3 id="vegetation-agriculture">Vegetation &amp; Agriculture</h3>
<ul>
<li><p><a href="https://aquaagro.smartcube.pk/">AquaAgro</a> | Karachi,
Pakistan | 2018</p>
<p>Provides solutions for precision farming, enabling farmers to monitor
their crops and make better decisions. Their devices and platform can
make predictions for irrigation scheduling, fertilizer requirement, pest
attack prediction, and plant disease detection.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://boweryfarming.com">Bowery Farming</a> | New
York, USA | 2015</p>
<p>Their indoor vertical farms grow produce locally within cities with
95% less water, no pesticides, and 100x more productivity on the same
footprint of land compared to traditional agriculture.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.droneseed.com/">Droneseed</a> | Seattle, USA
| 2015</p>
<p>A team including foresters, ecologists, and engineers focused on
wildfire reforestation. They plant native trees &amp; vegetation using
drone swarms and seed vessels developed to boost survival rates. As of
2020 they can propagate 40 acres in a day.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://kheyti.com/">Kheyti</a> | India | 2015</p>
<p>They implement low-cost farming solutions such as
“Greenhouse-in-a-box” to help small farmers increase yield and
predictability of produce.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://landlifecompany.com/">Land Life Company</a> |
Amsterdam | 2013</p>
<p>Their mission is to reforest the world’s 2 billion hectares of
degraded land.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://www.peckas.com">Peckas Tomater</a> | Sweden |
2015</p>
<p>Combined tomato and fish farm grown in a system where fish basin
waste water nourishes tomatoes, and the tomato bed in turn cleans the
water which goes back to the fish basins. Their fish is grown without
antibiotics and the tomates does not need fertilizers.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://phytoponics.com/">Phytoponics</a> | UK |
2016</p>
<p>Produces a commercial scale hydroponic growing system, which is
cheaper and easier to install and maintain than traditional hydroponic
systems. The goal is to bring the benefits of hydroponics (less water
and land, more consistent yields), with a lower investment up
front.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://solarfoods.fi/">Solar Foods</a> | Finland |
2017</p>
<p>Produces Solein - a single-cell protein - from water, CO2 and
electricity. It doesn’t require arable land or irrigation and isn’t
limited by climate conditions. The original concept of Solein was born
from a NASA space programme, and was further developed in the research
projects of the Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd and the
Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT).</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.vultus.io/">Vultus</a> | Sweden | 2016</p>
<p>Uses satellite imaging to save fertilizer usage up to 30%, and track
crops health. This allows farmers to reduce their Nitrous Oxide
emissions, a greenhouse gas that is 298 times more potent than
CO2.</p></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="food">Food</h3>
<ul>
<li><p><a href="https://www.heurafoods.com/en-GB/home">Foods for
Tomorrow / Heura</a> | Barcelona, Spain | 2017</p>
<p>Created an ingredient named Heura which represents a new generation
of plant-based proteins using innovative production techniques to get
textures never seen on the vegetal realm. Heura needs 94% less water
than to produce the same amount of veal protein and only 0.5kg of soy
per kg produced.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://impossiblefoods.com/">Impossible Foods</a> |
California, USA | 2011</p>
<p>Their plant based burgers require 96% less land, 87% less water, and
89% less greenhouse emissions to produce than traditional burgers. Their
mission is to produce plant based meat in order to reduce the impact of
the meat industry on the environment.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.happycow.net/">HappyCow</a> | California,
USA | 1999</p>
<p>Reduce or avoid meat entirely by finding great vegetarian or vegan
food all over the world.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://new.karma.life/">Karma</a> | Sweden | 2016</p>
<p>Helps restaurants, cafes, and grocery stores selling their surplus
food at a discounted price. As a result, users get food for less and
businesses receive an additional revenue stream — all while reducing
food waste.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://olioex.com/">Olio</a> | UK | 2015</p>
<p>Mobile app for food-sharing, aiming to reduce food waste. It does
this by connecting those with surplus food to those who need or wish to
consume such food. The food must be edible; it can be raw or cooked,
sealed or open.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://toogoodtogo.com/en">Too Good To Go</a> | France
| 2016</p>
<p>Gives the possibility for restaurants, stores, bakeries and cafés to
sell unsold food at the end of the day. Since it is impossible to know
in advance what will be the unsolds of the day, the users get a
“surprise basket” of about 500g of food. Pretty much like Karma, but
more present in France.</p></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="materials">Materials</h3>
<ul>
<li><p><a href="https://www.bostonmetal.com/">Boston Metal</a> | Boston,
USA | 2012</p>
<p>Developed a new technology to produce emission free steel in a
scalable and cost effective manner. As of 2020 they produced more than
1.000kg of metal alloys since the commissioning of their first
reactor.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://cellugy.com/">Cellugy</a> | Denmark | 2018</p>
<p>Offers a biomaterial produced from food and vegetable waste, that can
be used for packaging as an alternative to plastic. This material is
translucent, resistent, and home compostable.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://organicbasics.com">Organicbasics</a> | Denmark |
2015</p>
<p>Offers underwear, essentials and activewear made consciously in
Europe. The material used for their production is natural, renewable,
recycled, biodegradable and or low-impact textiles only.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://skycoolsystems.com">SkyCool Systems</a> |
California, USA | 2016</p>
<p>Manufacture add-ons to vapor-compression based cooling systems, which
reduce their electricity usage while being CO2 neutral
themselves.</p></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="water">Water</h3>
<ul>
<li><p><a href="https://thegreatbubblebarrier.com">The great bubble
barrier</a> | Netherlands | 2016</p>
<p>Developed a system working with a tube with holes placed on the
bottom of a river. Pumping air through the tube creates a bubble
barrier, or air curtain. The air bubbles force plastics in the water to
the surface, making them accessible for removal.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://theoceancleanup.com/">The Ocean Cleanup</a> |
Netherlands | 2013</p>
<p>Developed a technology to passively collect ocean debris, with the
goal of cleaning the oceans of 90% of their plastic waste by 2040. In
2018 they deployed their solution in the Great Pacific Garbage
Patch.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.oceanvoyagesinstitute.org/">Ocean Voyages
Institute</a> | Honolulu, USA | 1979</p>
<p>Non-profit founded by international sailors, educators, and
conservationists with a mission of teaching maritime arts and sciences
and preserving the world’s oceans. They completed multiple cleanup
expeditions in the Pacific, the most recent one in June 2020 where they
removed 103 tons of fishing nets and consumer plastics from the Great
Pacific Garbage Patch.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://orbital-systems.com/">Orbital Systems</a> |
Sweden | 2012</p>
<p>Collaborated with NASA to develop a shower system that uses 90% less
water. The shower has a purification system that makes it possible to
reuse the same batch of water. The company now wants to make this
technology - initially developed for space - available to
consumers.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://refill.org.uk/">Refill App</a> | UK | 2015</p>
<p>This is an app which lets you find free water refill stations across
the UK. Currently there are more than 20,000 free stations across the
nation. The app also tracks saved bottles, saved carbon and donates 13p
every time you refill a bottle to planet protecting campaings.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://seabinproject.com/">Seabin Project</a> |
Australia | 2016</p>
<p>Their mission is to reduce plastic in the oceans through a floating
rubbish bin that collect pollutants on the water surface. As of October
2019 they have deployed 719 Seabins and are capturing almost 3 tonnes of
rubbish per day.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://solarwatersolutions.fi/en/">Solar Water
Solutions</a> | Finland | 2015</p>
<p>Develops a reverse osmosis technology for producing drinking water
with low operating expenses and no CO2 emissions. The desalination
system is fully solar, independent of external energy sources and
easy-to-use and maintain.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.zeromasswater.com/">Zero Mass Water</a> |
Scottsdale, USA | 2014</p>
<p>Produces Hydropanels, a self-contained system that relies on solar
power to convert air humidity into clean drinkable water.</p></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="energy">Energy</h3>
<ul>
<li><p><a href="https://bulb.co.uk/">Bulb</a> | UK | 2013</p>
<p>The UK’s biggest green supplier. They provide members with 100%
renewable electricity from solar, wind and hydro. Plus, the gas is 100%
carbon neutral. 10% is green gas produced from renewable sources like
food or farm waste.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://carbonengineering.com/">Carbon Engineering</a> |
Canada | 2009</p>
<p>Using Direct Air Capture technology, Carbon Engineering aims to take
existing CO<sub>2</sub> directly out of the air, then use the gas to
make carbon neutral synthetic fuels for planes, trucks, and ships.
Carbon Engineering is funded by several government and
sustainability-focused agencies as well as by private investors,
including Bill Gates and oil sands magnate Norman Murray
Edwards.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.chargepoint.com/">ChargePoint</a> |
California,USA | 2007</p>
<p>ChargePoint operates a open electric vehicle (EV) charging network
and makes technology used in it.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.electricitymap.org/">ElectricityMap.org</a>
| Denmark/France | 2017</p>
<p>A software company offering access to live and historical data of the
origin of electricity and its associated carbon emissions in 90+
countries, based on open-source contributions.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.gogoro.com/">Gogoro</a> | Taiwan | 2011</p>
<p>Develops and sells electric scooters and battery swapping
infrastructure.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.hydrostor.ca/">Hydrostor</a> | Canada |
2010</p>
<p>Converts electrical energy to compressed air stored in accumulators
under water. Once in the accumulators, the energy can be stored until
required by the grid. When the energy is required, the weight of the
water pushes the air back to the surface, where it is converted to
electricity using a generator.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.helloinspire.com/">Inspire</a> |
Philadelphia, USA | 2014</p>
<p>Simplifying consumer adoption of clean energy by offering an array of
affordable clean energy plans to homeowners that integrate with smart
home technologies.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.marcel.cab/engagements-rse/">Marcel</a> |
France | 2011</p>
<p>An online taxi app like Uber that gives the possibility to use
electric cars and partners with the GoodPlanet foundation to fully
compensate for the carbon generated by its rides. Since 2019 it is only
available in France.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.momentumdynamics.com/">Momentum Dynamics</a>
| Pennsylvania, USA | 2009</p>
<p>Developing wireless charging for the automotive and transportation
industry. Allows any type of vehicle or appliance to be connected to
electrical power grid without the use of cables or wires.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://nelhydrogen.com/">Nel ASA</a> | Norway |
1927</p>
<p>Provides solutions for the production, storage and distribution of
hydrogen from renewable energy sources.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://openclimatefix.github.io">Open Climate Fix</a> |
London, England | 2019</p>
<p>Non-profit research and development lab, focused on reducing
greenhouse gas emissions by solving machine learning problems. As of
2019 they are working on a forecasting system to reduce gas turbines
backups on power grids that use solar energy.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://redflow.com/">Redflow</a> | Brisbane, Australia
| 2001</p>
<p>Manufacture zinc-bromine flow batteries that tolerate daily hard work
in harsh conditions with minimal reduction in capacity over time,
solutions for the residential and industrial installations.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://rmi.org/">Rocky Mountain Institute</a> |
Colorado, USA | 1982</p>
<p>Influential research institute whose mission statement is “…to
transform global energy use to create a clean, prosperous, and secure
low-carbon future”. Co-founded by Amory Lovins, physicist and auther of
“Soft Energy Paths”.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://new.siemens.com/in/en.html">Siemens</a> |
Germany | 1847</p>
<p>Multinational manufacturing company. Among their many projects they
produce wind turbines and provide onshore and offshore wind services. It
is the world’s third largest wind turbine manufacturer as of
2018.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.tesla.com/solarpanels">Solar City</a> |
California, USA | 2006</p>
<p>Current products include a solar panel roof that collects as much
power as possible without looking like a solar panel, and Powerwall, a
home energy storage solution.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://sonnenusa.com">Sonnen</a> | Germany | 2010</p>
<p>Produces energy storage solutions for households. Also, they
currently provide the largest network for sharing power from renewable
energies, operating in Germany.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.suzlon.com/">Suzlon Energy Ltd.</a> | India
| 1995</p>
<p>Wind turbine manufacturer present in 18 countries across the
continents.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.tesla.com/solarpanels">Tesla</a> |
California, USA | 2003</p>
<p>Specialized in electric car manufacturing and through, its SolarCity
subsidiary, solar panel manufacturing.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://www.ushva.com/">Ushva Clean Technology</a> |
Mumbai, India | 2015</p>
<p>They believe in optimizing the energy consumption without
compromising with the convenience and then neutralizing the remaining
energy requirement. Their vision is to provide accessibility to
affordable power derived from renewable resources, free of geographic
and transmission constraints.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.vestas.com/">Vestas</a> | Denmark | 1945</p>
<p>Manufacturer, seller, installer, and servicer of wind turbines. As of
2019 Vestas has installed over 66,000 wind turbines for a capacity of
100 GW in over 80 countries on five continents.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.windcores.de/en/homepage/">WindCORES</a> |
Germany | 2018</p>
<p>A subsidiary of Westfalenwind, a German wind energy developer. They
are a data center provider that hosts servers inside wind turbines,
bringing the consumer of electricity closer to the producer.</p></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="social-impact">Social Impact</h3>
<ul>
<li><p><a href="https://billionsinchange.com/">Billions in Change</a> |
USA | 2015</p>
<p>Billions in Change develops and delivers inventions that help the
unlucky half of the world obtain basic needs like clean water, reliable
electricity, and sufficient food. Those fundamentals set the foundation
for education, health, and livelihood, enabling people to improve life
for themselves and for their families.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://doconomy.com/">Doconomy</a> | Sweden | 2018</p>
<p>Fintech company promoting the reduction in consumption, by providing
a credit card which uses CO2 emissions as spending limit.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.ducky.eco/en/">Ducky</a> | Norway | 2014</p>
<p>Offers a range of products based on climate and environmental
research data, where you can monitor your personal footprint in their
climate calculator, learn about climate psychology, and reduce carbon
emissions through friendly team competitions.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://ecosia.org/">Ecosia</a> | Germany | 2009</p>
<p>Internet search engine that donates its surplus income to non-profit
organizations that focus on reforestation. According to their website,
as of July 2019, they have been responsible for the planting of 60
million trees.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://ewally.com.mx/">Ewally</a> | Mexico | 2017</p>
<p>System and App that provide a complete and eco-friendly trash
collection service promoting the recycling culture. The wall between
ocean and trash.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://tmrow.com/">Tomorrow</a> | Denmark/France |
2018</p>
<p>App that calculates the climate impact of your daily choices by
connecting to apps and services you already use: your personal and
automated carbon tracker.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://www.triodos.com">Triodos Bank</a> | Netherlands
| 1980</p>
<p>European Bank for consumers and businesses that only lends to
organisations who make positive environmental and social change. They
invest significantly in renewable energy systems and publish details of
every organisation they finance on their website.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="https://unmade.com/">Unmade</a> | England | 2013</p>
<p>Reduces waste in the fashion industry, by offering on-demand
production of clothing at scale. Unmade was born out of a desire to
re-imagine both the design and manufacturing processes within the
fashion industry, so brands only make what is actually sold, resulting
in minimal waste.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="more-resources">More Resources</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.climatetechlist.com/">ClimateTechList</a> -
curated list of ~50 climatetech companies, specific to software
engineers, with descriptions of each company, their software impact, and
climate impact.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.b-t.energy/">Breakthrough Energy Ventures</a> -
Venture fund backed by Bill Gates and a group of private investors, with
more than $1 billion in committed capital, to build companies that will
help stop climate change.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cleantechfinland.com/web/cleantech">Clean Tech
Finland</a> - Hub of Finnish clean tech companies.</li>
<li><a href="https://swedishcleantech.com/">Clean Tech Sweden</a> - Hub
of Swedish clean tech companies.</li>
<li><a
href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ClimateActionPlan/">r/ClimateActionPlan</a>
- A subreddit for giving people hope when facing climate change.</li>
<li><a href="https://climatechoice.co/">Climate Choice</a> - A
non-profit project that contains actionable guides on reducing climate
change, as well as educational information about climate change.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.mattermore.io/">Mattermore.io</a> - Newsletter
highlighting companies using AI &amp; data science to reverse climate
change; useful for discovering new initiatives/work opportunities,
delivered every week.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.norrsken.org/">Norrsken Foundation</a> -
Swedish foundation which supports and invests in organizations that have
a positive impact on society.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="research">Research</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.epa.gov/climate-research">Environmental
Protection Agency</a> - Research on effects of climate change and
solutions.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.ipcc.ch/library/">Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change</a> - United Nations body for assessing the science
related to climate change.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.mcc-berlin.net/en.html">Mercator Research
Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change</a> - Providing
solution-oriented policy pathways for governing the global commons to
enhance sustainable development and human well-being.</li>
<li><a href="http://climate.nasa.gov/">NASA climate</a> - Vital signs of
the planet, facts, and solutions.</li>
<li><a
href="https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/transparency-and-reporting/reporting-and-review-under-the-convention/greenhouse-gas-inventories-annex-i-parties/national-inventory-submissions-2019">U.N
Climate Change National Inventory Submissions</a> - This contains
country specific climate reports from several U.N countries. It has data
from 2003 onwards.</li>
</ul>
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