On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, Paul Reginato talks with Eli Hornstein, founder and CEO of Elysia Bio, about engineering feed crops to address methane emissions from livestock, and more.
#ClimateSky #TheClimateBiotechPodcast
🎧 Apple/Spotify: www.homeworld.bio/podcast/
Homeworld's new Biomining Handbook is live: an open resource for biologists and mining professionals to design better projects together.
This includes Mining 101 for biologists, Biology 101 for mining pros, flowsheets, a materials guide, a research roadmap, and more. #Biomining
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The microplastics field is quickly evolving. A necessary first step towards building the field is making the research landscape more accessible.
Great work by @sarah-i-daniels.bsky.social in shedding light on #microplastics research at a timely moment of new funding for this area.
📣 Homeworld’s Pollution Program is spinning out Engineered Resilience, led by @sarah-i-daniels.bsky.social, to address an overlooked driver of chronic disease: pollutant exposures.
If you’re a funder or #biotech builder and want to learn more, please reach out.
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📣 Methane causes ~30% of global warming, & despite emissions reductions, a major gap will remain by 2050. #BiologicalMethaneRemoval is one of the most promising ways to close that gap. With @sparkclimate.bsky.social, we convened 30 experts, resulting in 22 problem statements.
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📣 30 episodes in, Dan Goodwin hosts his final episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, distilling the wisdom and lessons learned, then passing the mic to incoming Executive Director, Paul Reginato.
#ClimateSky #ClimateBiotech #TheClimateBiotechPodcast
🎧 Apple/Spotify: www.homeworld.bio/podcast/
Cover image of Homeworld Collective's 2025 Annual Impact Report - white text on a blue and green background.
🌱 The Homeworld 2025 Annual Impact Report is out! When we connect researchers to high-leverage problems, the right collaborators, and funding resources, they respond with creativity and rigor. See what we've built together.
#ClimateBiotech #GreenSky #ClimateSky
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Text on green background for the Climate Biotech Podcast episode on Microbial Consortia for Industrial Decarbonization with a photo of Ginger Krieg Dosier, executive director and chairperson at BIOME Consortia.
Quote on cream background from Ginger Krieg Dosier on the Climate Biotech Podcast: "Bringing biology to concrete was very new at that time. And so the conversations with the industry were more about, okay, here's what they can do. This is very exciting. We compared a lot of the work to beer production."
📣 On the latest episode of the Climate Biotech Podcast, hear how biocement creator Ginger Krieg Dosier from Biomason is now building BIOME Consortia to accelerate biology from thousands to billions of strains for applications.
🎧 Apple: bit.ly/4pZniVH
🎧 Spotify: bit.ly/4qSvhFy
#ClimateSky #BioSky
On the latest ep of the Climate Biotech Podcast, hear how synthetic biology legend @loogerl.bsky.social is turning his protein engineering expertise to developing tools to study methane monooxygenase, an enzyme that could unlock methane removal.
Listen in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Thanks to Dan Goodwin and @homeworld.bsky.social for having me and Esteban Gazel on their podcast to discuss the Microbe-Mineral Atlas and synthetic biology and sustainability:
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Very grateful to be part of @homeworld.bsky.social #GreenhouseGas Removal Garden Grant 2025 cohort.
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We will characterise #methane degrading bacteria in tree #phyllospheres to advance understanding of a potentially globally important methane sink.
#methanotrophs
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.
By facilitating collaborative identification of problems that connect researchers to funding we're accelerating research in climate biotech.
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.
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...
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.
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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Curious about the climate solutions researchers are aiming to address?
Check out the 50+ public problem statements on experiment.com/programs/gar....
Garden Grants addresses both issues by spotlighting the most urgent challenges and supporting the bold approaches researchers propose to solve them.
Why share problems openly?
Homeworld identified two critical gaps in the climate biotech space: risk-tolerant funding and limited interaction and collaboration among teams.
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.
These problem statements pinpoint what researchers believe are the most critical challenges that biotech can solve in greenhouse gas removal.
📣 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.
If you have any questions or want to get involved, please email hello@homeworld.bio
Read the blog post and report here: www.homeworld.bio/blog/the-uni...
◾️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.
◾️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.
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.
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.
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For more problem statements in biological GHGR, check out our problem statement repository: (homeworld.bio/research/pro...).
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.