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The Collider Hosts Henderson County Tech Students

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The Community of Code project supported by NC state grants will take 80 Henderson County Public Schools high school students to The Collider – an Asheville-based nonprofit supporting solutions-driven entrepreneurs. Read More

Climate Change Innovators To Be Featured in Asheville At 2019 Climate City Expo

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Climate City Expo takes place March 29 – April 7, 2019, organized by The Collider, a climate innovation center in Asheville, N.C. (ASHEVILLE, N.C. — October 23, 2018): Business executives, entrepreneurs, climate scientists, and students from across the country will converge in Asheville this spring for Climate City Expo 2019, a conference that explores innovative … Read More

NEMAC+FernLeaf Establishes Public-Private Partnership to Promote Climate Resilience

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(Asheville, NC, October 16, 2018) — FernLeaf Interactive and UNC Asheville’s National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC)—two inaugural members of The Collider in downtown Asheville—have launched a collaborative public-private partnership this year that has produced greater climate resilience for their hometown and home state, with ongoing projects expanding their impact across the Southeast and … Read More

The Collider Announces Partnership with IBM to Bring Software Solutions to Communities Impacted by Hurricane Florence

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(Asheville, N.C. – October 4, 2018): Volunteer software developers from across North Carolina will convene in Raleigh on October 16 to participate in an initiative to make local communities more resilient in the wake of Hurricane Florence. The Collider, a nonprofit innovation center in Asheville, N.C. that empowers climate data entrepreneurs who help companies, communities, … Read More

The Collider Showcases Innovative Climate Companies at Inaugural Discovery Day

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(July 16, 2018 – Asheville, N.C.): Part open house, part pitch session, Discovery Day on August 8th is an opportunity to learn exactly how companies at The Collider are using data to address one of humanity’s greatest challenges – climate change. The Collider’s inaugural Discovery Day features climate data scientists and entrepreneurs, and the innovative products they … Read More

The Collider Announces a Conference On Climate Risks and Opportunities for the Food and Beverage Industry

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[Food + Beverage] Collider Will Convene Business Leaders, Sustainability Professionals, Data-Driven Entrepreneurs, and Climate Scientists to Discuss Risks and Opportunities Across the Food and Beverage Supply Chain. Asheville, NC – June 29, 2018 – The Collider, an innovation ecosystem for climate entrepreneurship, announced the launch of [Food + Beverage] Collider, an industry conference that convenes … Read More

Infrastructure Services Group LLC becomes the largest for-profit company with its corporate headquarters based at The Collider

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Asheville company focused on water and wastewater infrastructure announces acquisitions of companies in Vermont and Pennsylvania (ASHEVILLE, N.C. – March 25, 2018): Asheville-based Infrastructure Services Group LLC, a company that uses the most up-to-date technology to inspect and repair part of the 1.6 million miles of underground water and wastewater pipelines and associated manholes in the … Read More

Asheville Art Museum Presents a Lecture on Intersection of Art + Science

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Asheville Art Museum Presents a Lecture on Intersection of Art + Science The Museum collaborates with The Collider and Contemporaneo Asheville to present a lecture by artist Anrika Rupp on February 20 [February 6, 2018 – ASHEVILLE] In collaboration with The Collider and Contemporaneo Asheville, the Asheville Art Museum is pleased to present a lecture by artist Anrika … Read More

Collider Member StatWeather Receives 2017 International Climate Business Achievement Award

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Environmental Business International Recognizes Firms for Growth and Innovation (February 1, 2018 – Asheville, N.C.): Environmental Business International Inc. and Climate Change Business Journal has selected StatWeather, Inc. as a recipient of the international Business Achievement Award for Technology. A social enterprise founded in 2009 by mathematician Ria Persad and software engineer Mark Carlo, StatWeather … Read More

February Science Pub features lecture from scientist assigned to oil spill cleanup

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ASHEVILLE, NC – January 29, 2018: The Asheville Museum of Science (AMOS) and The Collider announce their next co-hosted installment of the Science Pub, a free Friday night guest speaker series offered by AMOS. Roger Helm, former Lead Scientist with the Department of Interior’s Damage Assessment Team, will present “Crude Awakening -– From the Exxon … Read More