Restore — carbon removal

Located in Iceland, Mammoth is Climeworks’ second commercial Direct Air Capture (DAC) plant and it is about ten times bigger than its predecessor plant, Orca.

Mammoth represents a demonstrable step in Climeworks’ scale-up roadmap, moving carbon removal capacity from thousands to tens of thousands of tons per year — an important milestone on the way to megaton capacity by 2030 and gigaton by 2050.

Made entirely from lab-grown mycelium, GOB’s earplugs are USDA Certified 100% Bio-based and home-compostable — ready to return to nature by breaking down into nutrients that feed the soil.

Designed to mold to your ear like memory foam and engineered for noise reduction, GOB’s mycelium-based earplugs offer unparalleled comfort and sound protection while prioritizing the planet and your health.

This Melbourne-based team uses design for marine restoration, providing products made with 3D printing and casting technologies and services to help their clients investigate new ways to repair and maintain ecological diversity in marine & coastal environments.

This vital work mostly occurs in collaboration with marine researchers across a spectrum of restoration projects, from coastal blue carbon practices to coral farming and more.  

Twelve turns CO₂ into essential products.

CO₂Made® materials encompass a broad range of polymers that are chemically identical to conventional fossil-based products and possess the same characteristics. Such polymers are essential materials for making products like polyurethane foam, used in the built environment today.

Now, carbon transformation is producing climate-positive solutions made from air, not oil.

Few consumer products, if any, have reached perfection in covering all the factors of carbon neutrality. The MO.ONSHOT sneaker, however, demonstrates clear progress.

The product is composed of regenerative 100% wool, carbon-negative, sugarcane-derived foam, and carbon-negative bioplastic.

MO.ONSHOT offers an open-source toolkit to foster collaboration and far more progress.

The Ellinikon Park transforms obsolete infrastructure into a restorative landscape that will become Europe’s largest coastal park.

Carbon Conscience and Pathfinder tools were used to guide design decisions based on increasing sequestered and stored carbon and reducing embodied carbon. Over 3 mil. new plants were selected for their ecosystem services, adaptability to the site’s distinctive soil profile, and to increase biodiversity.

This project developed a unique material by mixing bio-resin with powdered discarded Igusa grass from recycled Tatami mats.

Igusa is a renewable, perennial grass and natural carbon sink that absorbs and stores atmospheric CO₂ within its stalk and soil.

The biodegradable mixture has been 3-D printed to propose furniture that re-weaves Tatami into modern life — regeneratively.

This master plan aims to regenerate and give back to the community a Green Village.

Notable interventions include — facades integrated with a technological network to collect rainwater from roofs; green façades to create a natural bioregulation of internal temperatures; providing 60,000sqm of new green areas and planting 1,200 new trees for absorbing CO₂ from the urban environment.

Taking inspiration from nature, Urban Sequoia NOW is a design for a building that will sequester carbon throughout its lifecycle.

The concept, readily constructible today, rethinks projects as living organisms that significantly reduce embodied carbon, generate energy, and absorb carbon while lasting much longer than the typical 60-year lifespan of a building.

By considering all stages of the building process: material extraction, manufacturing, transportation, and installation, RICA’s embodied carbon will be 44% less than the global average for institutional works. RICA is predicted to be climate-positive by 2044, removing more carbon from that point forward than was produced from the campus’ creation and ongoing operations.

The more carbon is transformed to replace petrochemicals, the more its utilization forms a new frontier. And design for decarbonization becomes its new growth opportunity.

Now aspects of the built environment can be decarbonized by design –– its architecture, interiors, exteriors, and landscapes, as well as all the products and packaging used within it.

Twelve transforms carbon to replace fossil fuel-based materials with carbon-free CO₂Made® materials made from air, not oil.

From sunglass lenses developed with product design partner PANGAIA Lab to CO₂Made® car parts for Mercedes Benz, Twelve is developing diverse product applications that span across many industries.

FLOR, an Interface company, offers three types of backings that are designed to move beyond carbon-neutral and toward a carbon-negative future.

The backings include CQUEST™ GB, CQUEST™ Bio, and CQUEST™ BioX.

You can learn more below.

Many of the world’s products are made of materials with high embodied greenhouse gas emissions. These lead to varying degrees of damage to the natural environment.

To address the climate emergency, MOAs scientists are developing compounds to substitute all those materials. Their Carbon Lab and its research is at the intersection of material science and carbon sequestration.

Unlike synthetic materials, the AirCarbon molecule is a substance made throughout nature and can be re-consumed by natural microorganisms like leaves or twigs, enabling life to restore itself.

Compostable, dishwasher safe, and FDA approved, AirCarbon is ideal for creating foodware products and more.

On is leading a new supply chain coalition to reshape carbon waste into running shoes, working with LanzaTech and Borealis.

We make carbon emissions the starting point for the creation of EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate) foam – a material we can engineer into high-performance cushioning for running shoes.

Rapidly renewable hemp provides a natural alternative to EPS insulation (expanded polystyrene) for packaging purposes while sequestering more CO₂ than trees per acre.

NOTPLA is committed to making plastic disappear by producing packaging with seaweed –– abundant, carbon sequestering, rapidly renewable, biodegradable, and home compostable –– one of our greatest natural weapons against climate change.

See Oceans 2050, www.oceans2050.com, an organization leading the global effort to quantify seaweed carbon sequestration.

Opportunities to help restore our climate are growing worldwide. Designers can engage individually, collectively, and with clients who see such efforts as a tangible way to fulfill their climate pledges and ESG strategies.

Participate with respected organizations to help restore forests in cites and local or global communities. Discover more below.

The African Union’s Great Green Wall initiative’s ambition is to restore 100 million hectares of currently degraded land; sequester 250 million tons of carbon and create 10 million green jobs by 2030, in a region where temperatures are rising faster than anywhere else on Earth.