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Growing the field of climate biotech by empowering practitioners and directly supporting research. homeworld.bio
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Homeworld Academy applications are closing today! Join our free 8-week remote course where early-career bioscientists will learn to identify high-potential climate applications for their biological research.

Apply here by EOD today: homeworld.bio/academy
August 25, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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Cave microbes are a substantial methane sink. A @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Opinion from Sean Bay, Bob Leung, Homeworld, and @sparkclimate.bsky.social proposes enhanced subterranean aerotrophy, a prospective atmospheric methane removal pathway in caves or mines.

www.cell.com/trends/micro...
August 20, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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📣 Deadline extended: applications are still open for the inaugural Homeworld Academy, a free 8-week remote course where early-career bioscientists will learn to identify high-potential climate applications for their biological research.

Apply here by August 25:
www.homeworld.bio/academy
August 19, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, Paul Reginato is joined by @evangroover.bsky.social, a plant synthetic biologist at MIT's Whitehead Institute, to discuss plant genome editing and potential #photosynthesis improvements for more efficient agriculture.

www.homeworld.bio/podcast/
August 10, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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Applications are open for the Homeworld Academy course, "Fundamentals in Biotech Translation and Climate Impact." This remote & interactive 8-week course is built around a translation project of your research, with mentors to support your learning.

Apply by August 18: www.homeworld.bio/academy/
August 6, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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We surveyed 130+ people in climate biotech and interviewed 63 of them. We are excited to share the results: an interactive dashboard where you can explore the data, discover what we found, and develop your own conclusions.

View the Climate Biotech Community Survey Dashboard: survey.homeworld.bio
August 4, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, Paul Reginato talks with Robbie Wilson, a research scientist at #MIT, about engineering #RuBisCO to improve photosynthesis and build more climate-resilient crops.

#ClimateSky #ClimateBiotech

www.homeworld.bio/podcast/
July 16, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, Paul Reginato talks with Henry Lee, CEO of @cultivarium.bsky.social, about building genetic tools for non-model organisms and widening the aperture on what biology we can use for applications.

#ClimateSky

🎧 Apple/Spotify: www.homeworld.bio/podcast/
June 29, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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On this episode of The Climate Biotech Podcast, Paul Reginato talks with Kiara Reyes Gamas, an environmental synthetic biologist, about tracking horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities and rethinking environmental release.

#ClimateBiotech

🎧 Apple/Spotify: www.homeworld.bio/podcast/
May 18, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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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/
April 23, 2026 at 3:52 AM
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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

bit.ly/4tTCJkG
April 17, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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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.
April 15, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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📣 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.

🔗 bit.ly/4dpM8vt
April 2, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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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.

🔗 bit.ly/3PdO1RL
March 17, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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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/
February 25, 2026 at 3:38 AM
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🌱 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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Cover image of Homeworld Collective's 2025 Annual Impact Report - white text on a blue and green background.
February 19, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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📣 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
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."
January 28, 2026 at 4:27 AM
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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...
August 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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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:

🎧Apple Podcasts:
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🎧Spotify:
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Transforming Minerals with Biology: Rare Earth Extraction and Carbon Storage with Buz Barstow and Esteban Gazel
Podcast Episode · The Climate Biotech Podcast · 07/09/2025 · 1h
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July 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Very grateful to be part of @homeworld.bsky.social #GreenhouseGas Removal Garden Grant 2025 cohort.
www.homeworld.bio/grants-green...

We will characterise #methane degrading bacteria in tree #phyllospheres to advance understanding of a potentially globally important methane sink.
#methanotrophs
Garden Grants GHGR — Homeworld Collective
Garden Grants: Funding to grow climate biotech
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July 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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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...
Announcing Our Greenhouse Gas Removal Garden Grant Awardees
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...
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July 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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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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June 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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📣 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.
April 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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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...
The Unignorable Economics of Turning Science Into Technology
In this post, we share progress on an internal research project at Homeworld using AI to encourage technoeconomic thinking in climate biotech
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March 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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During the Garden Grants: Greenhouse Gas Removal (GHGR) application window, we will share a series of problem statements describing priority challenges identified by thought leaders in biological GHGR.

Today’s focus: Using microbes to speed up mineral weathering for carbon removal.
February 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM