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it started with Lucy
after reading a newspaper article about the vast amount of carbon flowing into the air from landfills, power plants, and cows like Lucy, we thought:
there must be some way to use greenhouse gas as a resource.
it turns out, there is.
it started with Lucy
after reading a newspaper article about the vast amount of carbon flowing into the air from landfills, power plants, and cows like Lucy, we thought:
there must be some way to use greenhouse gas as a resource.
it turns out, there is.
It started in 2003 with a question:
what if we could use the technology in nature
to turn greenhouse gas into high-value materials?
For the next 10 years,
we worked to answer that question.
Our first objective:
make it scalable.
Early on, we discovered that microorganisms from the ocean use air and greenhouse gas to make a material every day called PHB:
a meltable energy storage material that can be used to replace things like plastic and leather.
The problem was: the technology did not yet exist to make this process viable on land.
JOURNEY
Over time, we built,
we struggled...and we learned.
With incremental progress, we discovered how
to make the technology work.
Along the way, as we saw greenhouse gas transformed into a beautiful material, certain things became evident:
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the future is not yet written
true strength is mutually constructive
there is unique good and profound potential in everything
DISCOVERY
After 10 years of research, a new material was born.
We call it AirCarbon.
BREAKTHROUGH
In August 2013, we ran the technology
at large scale for the first time:
using microorganisms from the ocean to make PHB from
air and methane-based greenhouse gas dissolved in saltwater.
Our mission now:
change at scale.
MISSION
Our vision is to harness greenhouse gas as a resource to create AirCarbon at global scale
to help solve plastics pollution and climate change.
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To achieve this, we have assembled an extraordinary group of people:
people who believe things can and must change.
PEOPLE
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