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GCI Director Volker Sick quoted in Wall Street Journal

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Volker Sick was recently interviewed by Benoît Morenne of the Wall Street Journal about the future of captured CO2 “Consumers will need reassurance that some of these new products are safe, says Volker Sick, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan and director of the Global CO2 Initiative, a research group that…

Newsletter features Dr. Etosha Cave, Co-Founder and CSO of Twelve and history-making woman

“When I envision the future, I still see CO2-made materials being a big part of everyday life. It’s going to be a huge infrastructure change to use CO2 instead of merely throwing it away.“ In celebration of women’s history month in March, this issue features Dr. Etosha Cave, Co-Founder and CSO of Twelve and history-making woman. Dr….

U-M TCAUP Receives Catalyst Grant

The Global CO2 Initiative is proud to announce that their partners at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning have been awarded a catalyst grant. These catalyst grants, from the Graham Sustainability Institute, fund projects designed to advance potential infrastructure solutions across energy, transportation, and the built environment. The projects will…

Carbon to Value Initiative Year 2 Applications Now Open

Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative, along with Fluor and NYSERDA, are now accepting applications for Year 2 of the program. Join the world’s first and only accelerator dedicated to carbontech, specifically designed to help startups bridge the gap between the technology development challenges of today and the carbontech market and policy landscape of tomorrow. They…

Faculty Partners in the News

Congratulations are in order for several GCI Faculty Partners: Drs McCrory, Kwabi, Banu, and Taub Both Dr. Charles McCrory and Dr. David Kwabi were on separate cross-disciplinary Negative Emissions Science Teams that recently won awards sponsored by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, with additional support from the Climate…

From pollutant to product: the companies making stuff from CO2

Volker Sick was recently interviewed by Zoë Corbyn of the Guardian about making stuff from CO2 “It’s almost a sin to throw away a valuable resource,” says Volker Sick, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan who directs the Global CO2 Initiative. “The beauty of carbon is you can make so many…