How is your business helping to solve the health, social, or economic challenges created by COVID19?
Our CRBBP Process, among many other things, will capture flue gas CO 2, in cooperation with power plants and other large CO 2 emitters and, to remediate contaminated brownfield sites, in neighborhoods of color.And, our bio-crops can also capture substantial amounts of airborne particulate matter, which is especially important, these days, as communities impacted by this type of air pollution, suffer from asthma and other respiratory diseases and, therefore suffer from coronavirus illnesses to a much higher and much more severe extent.
Does your business contribute most to recovery, response, or resilience?
Resilience - we're improving the broader infrastructure for responding to pandemic outbreaks.,Recovery - we're positioned to support in the recovery of those directly affected.,Response - we're responding directly to issues caused or exacerbated by the COVID-19 outbreak.
What is the stage of your product development?
I have a market-ready product/service. I could sell it to customers
What strengths does your team bring? Include skills and personal experience with the problem.
Having proposed this CRBBP Process Project to the Exelon Foundation’s Climate Change Investment Initiative (See: https://www.exelonfoundation.org/), we are now a selected company, so, according to this initiative, the Exelon team is expected to provide a $100,000 investment and $100,000 in technical assistance to ATP-MD, to advance the CRBBP Process, in Baltimore and in Exelon’s other key markets. Joe James, ATP's founder, is a former, 33-year economic development professional, a biomass leader in the Southeast, and a 2008 Purpose Prize Winner, for his Greening of Black America Initiative. Mr. James has a BS in Science, from Union College, and has studied Law and Business at NYU. He served a 6-year term as a Secretarial appointee to the federal Biomass R&D Technical Advisory Committee, which advises the US Department of Agriculture and the US Department of Energy on biomass research and development programming. To learn more about its founder, why he started his business and its social mission, note the following video:www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBn7OuI1_rM.
What countries do you operate in?
USA
Is your company headquartered in a US "Opportunity Zone"?
No