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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thanks to Garden Grant co-funders
@sparkclimate.bsky.social sky.social and @granthamcsf.bsky.social, and to Quadrature Climate Foundation for making this possible through programmatic and regranting support.

Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · Jul 29

By facilitating collaborative identification of problems that connect researchers to funding we're accelerating research in climate biotech.

Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · Jul 29

This marks the execution of our first true Roadmap-Ignite-Fund-Synthesize (RIFS) cycle and the results exceeded our expectations. Our funding hypothesis was simple: surfacing important problems would be mutually reinforcing to funding solutions.

Announcing Our Greenhouse Gas Removal Garden Grant Awardees

Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · Jul 29

We're excited to share that we're deploying ~$1.4M to 11 groundbreaking teams through our Greenhouse Gas Removal Garden Grants! Funded projects span from methane-eating microbes on tree surfaces to bio-enhanced rock weathering.

See the full announcement: www.homeworld.bio/blog/announc...

Meet the 11 teams selected for Homeworld Collective’s Greenhouse Gas Removal Garden Grants, a $1.4M initiative accelerating breakthrough research in biological greenhouse gas removal through a novel p...

Crowdfunding Platform for Scientific Research

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · Jul 29

This marks the execution of our first true Roadmap-Ignite-Fund-Synthesize (RIFS) cycle and the results exceeded our expectations. Our funding hypothesis was simple: surfacing important problems would be mutually reinforcing to funding solutions.

Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · Jun 5

Plastic → perfume?

On the new Climate Biotech Podcast episode, César Ramírez-Sarmiento shares how his lab uses Antarctic enzymes to break down plastic at low temps and turn it into high value products, like fragrances, that fit Latin America's market needs.

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · Apr 11

Curious about the climate solutions researchers are aiming to address?
Check out the 50+ public problem statements on experiment.com/programs/gar....

For Science!

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · Apr 11

Garden Grants addresses both issues by spotlighting the most urgent challenges and supporting the bold approaches researchers propose to solve them.

Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · Apr 11

Why share problems openly?
Homeworld identified two critical gaps in the climate biotech space: risk-tolerant funding and limited interaction and collaboration among teams.

Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · Apr 11

By sharing the problems transparently (while keeping proposed solutions confidential), we aim to foster cross-pollination of ideas, stimulate community discourse, and attract philanthropic funding into climate biotech.

Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · Apr 11

These problem statements pinpoint what researchers believe are the most critical challenges that biotech can solve in greenhouse gas removal.

Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · Apr 11

📣 Big news from Homeworld:

We’ve published over 50 problem statements from proposals submitted to our second Garden Grants program, focused on greenhouse gas removal.

The Unignorable Economics of Turning Science Into Technology

Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · Mar 7

If you have any questions or want to get involved, please email [email protected]

Read the blog post and report here: www.homeworld.bio/blog/the-uni...

In this post, we share progress on an internal research project at Homeworld using AI to encourage technoeconomic thinking in climate biotech

Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · Mar 7

◾️Want to help shape this? We’re deciding whether to extend this AI-based TEA tool more generally. If you think a low-cost, AI-driven TEA can speed up your biotech journey, please let us know. Your feedback will guide us on whether to invest more resources into making this tool widely accessible.

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · Mar 7

◾️Where are we now? We’ve wrapped up our prototype stage (read the report in our latest blog post) and are shifting our focus to biomining. Jesse and Jayme are spearheading a new TEA product specifically for biomining, and we’ll roll out a usable version soon.

Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · Mar 7

At Homeworld, we have been prototyping an AI-driven TEA tool in order to help biotechnologists map their ideas to deployments.

◾️Why use AI? Currently, it costs $5k-$10k to even get a basic model started, but AI can deliver a solid starting point for a fraction of that.

The Unignorable Economics of Turning Science Into Technology

Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · Mar 7

Every technology starts with a techno-economic analysis (TEA) - a basic financial model that bridges ideas with practical feasibility. More than the financial sense, it shows that the innovator knows HOW your invention would become something in the real world.

www.homeworld.bio/blog/the-uni...

In this post, we share progress on an internal research project at Homeworld using AI to encourage technoeconomic thinking in climate biotech

Problem Statement Repository

Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · Feb 26

For more problem statements in biological GHGR, check out our problem statement repository: (homeworld.bio/research/pro...).

Community-generated problem statements connecting big challenges in climate change to actionable goals addressable through biotechnology.

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Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · Feb 26

Solving these challenges would unlock new approaches to biologically-enhanced enhanced rock weathering, potentially making it a more scalable, efficient, and cost-effective method for atmospheric carbon dioxide removal.

Functionally characterize microbial weathering processes in soil

Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · Feb 26

Characterizing the soil microbiocal functions that drive mineral dissolution homeworld.pubpub.org/pub/function...

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Platforms for high-throughput characterization of biologically-enhanced mineral weathering

Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · Feb 26

A need for high-throughput platforms to efficiently measure microbe-mineral interactions homeworld.pubpub.org/pub/high-thr...

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Systematic lab characterization of microbially-enhanced mineral weathering

Homeworld Collective @homeworld.bsky.social · Feb 26

Lack of systematic measurement of microbial weathering activity homeworld.pubpub.org/pub/systemat...

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