Sept 2023 | Eco-concrete is Cementing Itself as a Climate Solution
A race is on to change how concrete is made and reduce the huge carbon footprint of the world’s most ubiquitous building material. Read Full Story

Dec 2023 | Bio-charcoal hardens Habitat affiliate’s zero carbon concrete home
When dosed at 100 lbs., Solid Carbon’s the C-lock 8 admixture has potential to sequester 50 kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent per cubic yard of ready mix—positioning the Tacoma Habitat home to be carbon neutral without sacrificing concrete performance or strength. Read Full Story

Jan 2024 | BuildingGreen Announces Top 10 Products for 2024
Solid Carbon’s admixture reduces the embodied carbon of concrete while destroying PFAS and microplastics that would otherwise end up in our drinking water and food supplies. Read Full Story

Mar 2023 | Solid-Carbon Pioneers Sustainable Concrete Solutions for a Greener Future
Solid Carbon is revolutionizing the concrete industry by transforming concrete into a low carbon emitting material through negative carbon construction. Read Full Story

Jan 2023 | Winery promotes adaptive reuse, sustainability
Partnering with a team of researchers and developers, Drabkin adopted carbon-sequestering concrete inside the 5,000-square-foot winery. She estimated her building’s slab offsets about 5 tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Read Full Story

Nov 2022 | A Force For Good: Dundee Hills Dynamo Remy Drabkin Won’t Be Denied
As a result of the project, the Drabkin-Mead Formulation led to the creation of Solid Carbon, a company in McMinnville ready to implement the new structural concrete for commercial and home construction. Read Full Story

Nov 2023 | McMinnville company uses wastewater to make concrete
Solid Carbon featured on KGW “Good Energy” segment. See Video Here

Nov 2023 | The Concrete Industry's Commitment to Net Zero
This discussion explores the concrete industry's role in providing resilient and sustainable construction solutions. Listen Here

Nov 2023 | Flipping the script on the concrete conundrum
What if we as a society decided to turn the world’s most used human-made material from the largest source of carbon emissions in the construction industry into a carbon sink by incorporating biogenic carbon within it? More Info

Feb 2024 | McMinnville’s Solid Carbon pours a promising future for building industry’s most ubiquitous material | …Mead is on to something. His company is the first in America to make concrete out of biochar, which can be obtained from wastewater | Read full story

April 2024 | Intrepid Oregon Fund Launches with $4M from the State to Invest in Climate and Tech Startups “The need for low-carbon solutions in the concrete industry are massive and to serve this industry Solid Carbon needs to be prepared to scale,” said CEO John Mead. The investment from Intrepid Oregon Fund, he added, “is a key step in our journey.” Read Full Story

June 2024 | The Zero Carbon Marvel of Gig Harbor
Ordinary? Not quite. This Habitat for Humanity home is a zero-carbon masterpiece. Read Full Story

Jan 2025 | U.S. Department of Energy Announces more than $136 Million in Projects To Develop Transformational Technologies Across America’s Most Critical Industrial Subsectors. Read Full Story or see Funded Projects Page