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it started with Lucy
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after reading a newspaper article about the vast amount of carbon flowing into the air from landfills, power plants, and cows like Lucy, we thought:
there must be some way to use greenhouse gas as a resource.
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it turns out, there is.
​
it started with Lucy
​
after reading a newspaper article about the vast amount of carbon flowing into the air from landfills, power plants, and cows like Lucy, we thought:
there must be some way to use greenhouse gas as a resource.
​
it turns out, there is.
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MEDIA
less Death Star, more Millennium Falcon
Future Net Zero
"Newlight Technologies has taken carbon capture into a whole new dimension."
12/13/23
Fortune.com
"The Fortune Impact 20 highlights relatively small enterprises that have built their business models around world-changing ideas"
12/12/23
TIME Magazine
"100 Most Influential Climate Leaders in Business for 2023"
11/16/23
PR Newswire
"Newlight Completes US$125M In New Equity Round Led by GenZero."
8/03/23
Urth Magazine
"AirCarbon: Unlocking the Potential of Carbon Emissions."
6/01/23
Fortune.com
“A California startup is turning greenhouse gas into a biodegradable plastic alternative.”
1/10/23
Wall Street Journal
"Products Made With Captured Greenhouse Gas Are Reaching Commercial Scale."
11/28/22
Tatler
"Is Alternative Leather the Future of the Fashion Industry?"
6/21/22
Dieline
“AirCarbon Utensils Now Available At Gelson's Supermarkets.”
4/11/22
Vogue
“H&M Launches Its Fifth Sustainability Initiative With A Timeless Collection Titled ‘Cherish Waste.’”
4/06/22
Yahoo! Finance
“AIRCARBON X GELSON'S On A Mission: AIRCARBON Launches at Gelson's to Help Replace Plastic.”
4/05/22
Discovery
"Plucking CO2 from the Air Could Decarbonize Food, Fuel, and Fashion."
4/05/22
Fast Company
“This Company Is Capturing Methane—Then Using It To Make Forks And Straws.”
3/23/22
Chief Executive
“For Mark Herrema, the “why” was because he wanted Newlight Technologies to help solve climate change.”
1/26/22
Medium
“Chasing A Carbon-Zero World.”
12/05/21
WWD
“An A-Z Guide To The Next-Gen Materials Taking A Step Forward For Sustainability.”
11/09/21
VICE
“These Companies Are Making Physical Goods Out Of Thin Air.”
10/13/21
HYPEBEAST
"What the Tech? Microorganism-Harvested AirCarbon Will Make Your Next Pair of Nikes."
9/17/21
WWD
“These Next-Gen Materials Are Wooing Investors And U.S. Shoppers, Report Finds.”
9/08/21
Treehugger
"Best of Green Awards: 2021."
6/29/21
Fashion For Good
“Newlight’s use of carbon capture technology transforms carbon from greenhouse gases into PHA biopolymers.”
6/10/21
Forbes
“The world’s first carbon-negative eyewear. Made from a natural material called AirCarbon, each pair removes 2.03 kilograms of CO2 equivalents from the atmosphere.”
6/07/21
WWD
“There’s also a growing trend toward carbon capture technologies which enable brands like Covalent … to extract carbon from the air with its novel ‘AirCarbon’ material.”
5/05/21
Fast Company
"World Changing Ideas Awards: 2021."
5/04/21
Popular Mechanics
"Plastics are slowly choking the planet. The solution might be hidden in one of the world's smallest organisms."
5/02/21
Flaunt Magazine
"The foodware in this film was made with AirCarbon, a reusable, carbon-negative material made by life."
4/22/21
Byrdie​
"Meet Covalent: The Brand Amplifying Environmental Transparency in Fashion."
3/31/21
Dieline
“Can AirCarbon Solve our Single-Use Packaging Problem?”
3/25/21
Brightly​
"Unlike soggy pasta straws, these products truly feel like the eco-friendly and sustainable products of the future."
3/22/21
Forbes
"After ten years of development, the company was able to produce a cost-effective and carbon-negative biomaterial."
3/05/21
Bio Plastics Magazine
"A natural and regenerative foodware brand that launched in 2020 to help end the flow of plastic into the ocean by replacing it with AirCarbon®"
3/04/21
Restaurant News
"Certified carbon negative by Carbon Trust and SCS Global, meaning they actually reduce carbon in the atmosphere."
3/03/21
Treadhunter
"AirCarbon is and made without synthetic plastics, glues, or PLA."
3/03/21
QSR Magazine
"Shake Shack is introducing AirCarbon cutlery and straws at select locations by joining forces with Restore Foodware."
3/03/21
ExBulletin
​"A palliative response to the considerable impact of fashion on the environment."
1/29/21
Barron's
"The material is actually meltable and can be purified and molded into myriad uses."
1/28/21
Popsugar
“With each handbag backed by blockchain technology, every step of Covalent's production process is trackable.”
1/26/21
Vogue
"Covalent products are not only animal-free, but regenerative, and carbon-negative too."
11/14/20
Now This
"AirCarbon can be molded just like plastic to make single-use biodegradables like straws and cutlery."
1/04/21
Waste 360
"Newlight’s innovation gets some help from microorganisms found in the ocean."
12/21/20
Fashionista
"AirCarbon's environmental stats are impressive."
11/11/20
CNN
"Because AirCarbon uses gasses from the atmosphere, the products are carbon negative."
10/19/20
India Times
"A new material that looks and behaves like plastic, but instead of staying forever in the oceans, it is extremely biodegradable."
10/12/20
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EcoWatch
"Carbon-Negative Straws and Cutlery Could Help Stop Plastic Pollution."
10/03/20
Sustainable Brands
"Meet Covalent: The world’s first regenerative, carbon-negative fashion brand made with AirCarbon."
9/29/20
Seeking Alpha
"By consuming greenhouse gas as a resource... AirCarbon has a net carbon-negative cradle-to-gate carbon footprint."
9/25/20
Optimist Daily
"Carbon-negative straws that look and feel like real plastic but break down naturally."
9/25/20
Fast Company
"A new material that could simultaneously help tackle the challenges of climate change and ocean plastic."
9/24/20
WWD
"These minimal luxury accessories are proving grounds for regenerative and bio-based materials."
9/24/20
Esquire
"Your days of oppression and disappointment at the hands of paper straws are behind you."
9/24/20
IBM
"Turning greenhouse gas into a resource with blockchain-backed technology."
9/24/20
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