Living Carbon

Excited to share Living Carbon’s feature in the EQT Foundation 2023 Annual Report! This report highlights entrepreneurs and scientists across the world who are at the forefront of addressing today’s major challenges. 📈🌟 We are honored to be included alongside innovative companies dedicated to climate and nature. 🌍🌳 Click this link to download the full report: https://lnkd.in/eQRUS64r #syntheticbiology #climatechange #entrepreneur #naturebasedsolutions

“We have to do something 10 times as big as what OpenAI is doing for AI for carbon removal and for climate.” 💡 Check out our CEO Maddie Hall on the Pattern Breakers podcast with Mike Maples, Jr! She shares the founding story of Living Carbon and the mindset that can help us live in the future - remembering that “there are all these different versions of reality that are just millimeters from our own version of reality.” 🌏 👇 Links Available Below! 👇 Apple: apple.co/3RTezq2 Spotify: spoti.fi/4eMKVMJ #carbonremoval #climatechange #naturebasedsolutions #innovation #patternbreakers

Check out these 2.5 year old trees planted by a landowner in Pennsylvania! These trees are already regenerating an abandoned mineland, where over time they will establish shade for other species, and restore soil quality as their roots grow. 🌱 This is an example of a successful control planting of wild-type hybrid poplar. We started planting wild-type trees early on to evaluate the suitability of sites based on many factors, including soil, terrain, climate, competition, and predation. Our learnings from these test sites help us optimize conditions for the planting of photosynthesis-enhanced poplars alongside a diverse mix of native species. 🌳 #landrestoration #successfulplanting

We're on the lookout for a Manager of People Operations to join our team at Living Carbon! #hiring As our first HR hire, this role is perfect for a candidate who is excited to grow with a mission-driven startup and help our team reach its full potential. You'll play a pivotal role in nurturing Living Carbon's staff across two locations. 👇 Apply Below 👇 https://lnkd.in/gBSEYwNp #teambuilding #opentohire 

❗ Check out the Symbiosis Coalition and exciting new commitments towards nature-based carbon removal projects ❗ #naturebasedsolutions

🌳 Photosynthesis-Enhanced Poplars Revitalize Urban Landscapes! 🌿 Thrilled to announce updates from our LA river planting along a former railroad maintenance site! 🏙️ The process of ecological succession in heavily modified urban areas can be particularly challenging, due to asphalt layers or contaminated soils. After two years, our trees have been able to grow in degraded environments and form the basis for new urban ecological communities. In the collaborative Taylor Yard G2 River Park Project, we're not just planting trees; we're adding beauty to our cities, mitigating the effects of pollution, and creating healthier environments for communities to thrive in. 🌍💚 #UrbanEcosystems #Sustainability #GreenCities #PEpoplars

We are excited to hear about reforestation and carbon credits from Craig Kaiser at LandGate and our very own Jonathan Shears this Thursday, May 16th. Make sure to register for the webinar and tune in at 11 AM MST! https://lnkd.in/gvVKMtTp

Our latest blog introduces a path forward for quantitative biodiversity credits. “Framing benefit in terms of resilience to disturbance and communication between the parts of an ecosystem enables us to quantify the impact of biodiversity gain and loss.” https://lnkd.in/gwsmgHt6 Find out how Living Carbon learns from a rich history of interconnected ecological networks and envisions the future regeneration of degraded landscapes! #biodiversity #functionalconnectivity #keystonemutulalists #carbondrawdown

https://lnkd.in/g9_k_-bj Of all the companies I've read about that are experimenting with #carboncapture and #carbonsequestration , I think Living Carbon might be the most ambitious. Lots of people are planting trees (the original carbon capture technology!) but Living Carbon are genetically engineering trees to capture carbon more efficiently and to lock it away more securely after they die. They published a really excellent series of blog posts about the role of photosynthesis in both stabilizing and destabilizing Earth's carbon cycles, throughout deep time - billions of years. I highly recommend reading these posts; they will change your perspective. There's a tendency to think of CO2 as "pollution" and pollution as "bad" because it's "unnatural". But that's the wrong way to think about it. CO2 is an essential part of the Earth's geological and biological cycles. Life couldn't exist without it. It's just that right now the balance between sources and sinks is out of whack, because of humans' tendency to find fossilized carbon, laid down during the Paleozoic, and relocate it from the ground into the sky.   This is bad, but it's not bad because it's "unnatural" or because it will "destroy the earth". The Earth has survived periods where CO2 concentrations were ten times higher. It's just that there were no polar icecaps - or multicellular life. Earth bounced back from the Permian-Triassic extinction, which was worse than anything humans can do. Eventually new species evolved and a new equilibrium was formed. It just took, you know, tens of millions of years.  The Earth will eventually bounce back from whatever humans do, and it will find a new equilibrium, millions of years from now. It's just that we won't like what happens in the meantime. If we want to preserve the climactic conditions that made human civilization possible - and that make it possible to grow enough food to feed 8 billion humans - then we need to get carbon sinks back in balance with carbon sources.  This is why I say: we should all be environmentalists, but not in order to "save the Earth". The Earth will go on. We should be environmentalists in order to save the humans!

Restoring ecosystems not only includes planting seeds in the ground, but also in the heads and hearts of the next generation! In partnership with students, teachers, and cub scouts, Living Carbon plants our first “playground” photosynthesis enhanced trees. These trees create educational opportunities to learn about carbon flux, and some nice shade to play under! Thank you to Piedmont Avenue Elementary School, Cub Scout Pack 617, and KABOOM! for your dedication to our students. #nextgeneration #photosynthesis #carbonflux #environmentaleducation #seedlings