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Since 2019, we’ve met hundreds of fellow bioengineers on the same journey as us. We are motivated to build a way of life that supports sustained thriving of human society and all of our non-human kin. We care deeply about protecting our home from the harms of climate change and environmental destruction. We know that major technological hurdles stand between us and sustainability. And as skilled engineers, we want to bring our minds, hands, and hearts to the challenge in full force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A wellspring of top biotech talent is actively seeking work in climate, but needs help. They require collaborators, knowledge of the problem-space, and funding to de-risk scientific ideas and career transitions. In short, climate biotech needs more community infrastructure, and that is why we created the 501(c)(3) non-profit Homeworld Collective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a big world out there.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Transitioning to sustainable industry means swiftly changing the life cycle of nearly every atom that humanity moves. That means billion-ton challenges with short timelines for innovation. As engineers, viewing the sustainability of a thriving biosphere through the lens of technology development feels like an empowering call to action. And yet, many of us have found it difficult to connect to clear problems, dig in, and innovate. We are constantly hearing talented biotech professionals saying \u201cI want to work on something with climate impact, but I don\u2019t know where to start and I don\u2019t know who to talk to.<\/em>\u201d It is non-trivial to navigate through those large challenge areas (eg, gigaton CDR capture capacity by 2030) to find one\u2019s fit with a high-impact actionable project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps even more challenging: not every solution will fit inside existing industries and research communities. Technical fields form as communities coalesce and solidify around common problems, and our collective response to the emerging technology challenges of climate change is in its early stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate biotech<\/strong> is a new field of study and practice dedicated to applying the principles of biotechnology to the contemporary challenge of sweeping deep decarbonization. Practitioners have worked to provide food, develop goods and protect ecosystems as long as biology has been studied: what’s new is the diversity and scale of emerging problems, and integration of biotechnology with the broader efforts of the rapidly-growing climate tech movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We work with a community-first approach.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Through first-hand experience and our experiences with the still-nascent community, we have identified needs that must be met in order to advance climate biotech beyond its present ideas-limited regime and accelerate it toward community-scale hyperproductivity<\/a>. Meeting those needs is the foundation of Homeworld Collective’s mission:<\/p>\n\n\n\n