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Student team determines use for 1 million tons of carbon dioxide per year!

GCI is excited to announce the launch of our Student Team CCU Products Summer Internship Project! Students from several schools are working with GCI this summer to investigate what could be done with a million tons of annual carbon dioxide emissions from the  St Mary’s cement kiln in Charlevoix, Michigan. Students will have the benefit…

Has the Carbontech Revolution Begun?

Science can now pull carbon out of the air. For that to make a difference, though, businesses need to find profitable places to put it. Global CO2 Initiative Director, Volker Sick, quoted in the New York Times.

First-ever DACC-A-THON student competition launched

Global CO2 Initiative is excited to share the successful launch of the first-ever DACC-A-THON student competition: A hackathon for direct air carbon capture. GCI has partnered with the OpenAir Collective to create a yearly student competition in which teams optimize a direct air carbon capture (DACC) device. Students will begin with a base DACC device…