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Here is one of the three additional biodryers that are headed to our installation in Redding, California! It will be joining our three BioDryers and one Pyrolysis unit there to double their drying capacity.

Day 4 of Climate Group’s climate week NYC for Bioforcetech Corporation and OurCarbon was at Newlab in the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation for their event ‘New Climate Futures. As a hub of innovation and collaboration, Newlab is a hive of energy and is full of new material startup developing to clean up and decarbonize industry. One unique aspect to Newlab is their deep collaboration with New York State and New York City government organizations. Groups like FFAR, NYSERDA, and more work with Newlab to find solutions to the large supply chain and material challenges that New York faces. Bioforcetech has had the honor of working with these groups in exercises modeling out how to valorize organics from manure to agricultural biomass and more. These collaborative exercises can lead to real results thanks to the public private relationship toward innovation that New York and Newlab fosters. We look forward to continuing to work with Newlab and their partners to transform waste to value!

Looking back at day 3 of Climate Group’s Climate Week NYC, we started at Grain Ecosystem’s Biochar Carbon Revolution event, where a panel event featured innovator and close partner John Mead, CEO and founder of Solid Carbon. John’s expertise lead to the first commercial use of Bioforcetech Corporation’s OurCarbon at a winery in Oregon in 2022. Since then, Solid Carbon has poured over 2,000 tons of Concrete with OurCarbon within it! John was joined by Matt Dalkie, Senior Sustainability Manager of Lafarge Canada supporting the investigation of biochars like OurCarbon for use in concrete to inset and decarbonize the material. We’re looking forward to watching Solid Carbon’s success as they continue to scale their innovations!

The third day of Climate Group’s Climate Week NYC became very eventful as The New York Times Climate Forward event went underway. It became even more eventful when climate protest ended it early! Bioforcetech Development Director Garrett Benisch joined a select crowd to hear interviews from an all star group of individuals including Jane Goodall, Muhammad Yunus of the government of Bangladesh, Ali Zaidi of Biden’s climate cabinet, Michael S. Regan of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Jesper Brodin of IKEA, Roy Cooper for North Carolina, Ryan Gellert of Patagonia, weather caster and anchor Al Roker, RJ Scaringe of Rivian, European Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra, Guyana President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, and climate scientists Stefan Rahmstorf of University of Potsdam and Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton University. Especially of interest was a heated discussion between Climate Forward Director David Gelles and Kevin Roberts, President of The Heritage Foundation, before the lunch break, where both parties sought to find common footing on the topic of climate change and steps forward. During lunch, Garrett joined a table at an invite only lunch to discuss ethics, policy, and actions around waste that cities like New York can take. The Bioforcetech Corporation technology and the ability for OurCarbon to help form a circular economy around waste proved a hot topic for our table alongside efforts around recycling and tough questions on how to increase awareness and recycling rates from individuals. In the afternoon, the event took a turn when climate protestors took to the stage to stop Vickie Hollub, President and CEO of Occidental, from being interviewed. The protests cause the event to end early, bringing an abrupt stop to the deep conversation that had marked the day. Tonight, Bioforcetech will be witnessing the premiere of a new climate documentary, Legion 44, to cap a truly eventful third day to Climate Week NYC.

Here are some more shots of the crowd at climate tech cocktails during NYC climate week! Thanks Climate Tech Cocktails, it was awesome to meet so many climate professionals and to be among innovators like AIR COMPANY, BugEra , Chargely, Climate Cafe NYC, Conry Tech, demi, Dimensional Energy, Holocene, NetNada, Palm, Sphere, Thea Energy, Ven, and Women and Climate (WAC)!

What a night to kick off Climate Week in New York! Last night Bioforcetech Corporation presented OurCarbon at the Climate Tech Cocktails opening cocktail party for Climate Group 's Climate Week NYC! Over 2,000 people packed into the Brooklyn Paramount for live music, networking, and a chance to learn about OurCarbon among other innovators. Attendees up and down the value chain including VC's, founders, LCA professionals, sustainable developers, fashion innovators, and more were in attendance. It was especially great to see the group of new faces looking to make a career move into climate! Around halfway through the night Bioforcetech's Garrett Benisch took the stage to share OurCarbon with the entire crowd and explain its use as a carbon negative pigment and material additive with the power to help decarbonize industry across various sectors. Thanks Climate Tech Cocktails, it was a blast to meet so many climate professionals and to be among innovators like AIR COMPANY, BugEra , Chargely, Climate Cafe NYC, Conry Tech, demi, Dimensional Energy, Holocene, NetNada, Palm, Sphere, Thea Energy, Ven, and Women and Climate (WAC)!

Yesterday Garrett Benisch joined key professionals in the construction industry for Saint-Gobain 's invite only event, "Sustainable Construction Talks," during Climate Group 's Climate Week NYC. The event began with a Panel discussion featuring Christina Shim, chief sustainability officer at IBM, Tatiana 2 Bilbao of Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO, Lauren Sorkin, executive director for the Resilient Cities Network and Peter Templeton President CEO of U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), bringing together a unique blend of urban planning, technology collection/AI, and community centered design. Closing out the morning, a fireside chat with Liz Henderson, Global head of climate risk at Aon and Rex Hamre, Head of sustainability North America at JLL looked at the often overlooked topic of insurance in a changing climate. As an urban infrastructure technology, Bioforcetech Corporation 's system helps municipalities reduce their environmental impact by diverting waste from landfill and destroying contaminants. After processing through this technology, carbon negative OurCarbon is ready to decarbonize the built environment by targeting its most emissive part (concrete) without sacrificing performance of the final material. Interfacing with such a wide variety of representatives in policy, construction, industry, and non-profits during events like this is key to understanding how solutions like the BFT system and OurCarbon fit into the larger fight to decarbonize the built environment and to prepare for what's to come as climate change continues to test our infrastructure.

Garrett Benisch is in New York City for Climate Group 's Climate Week NYC! And what a better place to start off the week than at a meeting in One World Trade. This year there are multiple discussions, presentations, and panels all centering around reducing current emissions, decarbonizing the built environment, and removing carbon... all of which Bioforcetech and OurCarbon can help accomplish! Stay tuned for daily updates from the events Garrett will be partaking in and visiting.

Operators Robert Leeds and Ender Lantan are prepping supersacks of OurCarbon for an exciting project deploying in the next few weeks!! OurCarbon is a truly unique carbon negative material that stops landfill emissions and then decarbonizes industry. With unique material properties, every use of OurCarbon is an industry first.

Last week the designers at WHIPSAW brought their curiosity and desire for new material knowledge to the OurCarbon/Bioforcetech Corporation production installation at Silicon Valley Clean Water. As the translators between industry and users, designers hold an incredible amount of power in enabling new material pathways or allowing 'business as usual.' Thank you to the WHIPSAW team for wielding that power responsibly!