Elysia Creative Biology

Greetings from the local eclipse maximum at Elysia HQ in Raleigh, NC! Now to just get back to the lab and see about some strange and interesting plants.... https://t.ly/Yt84w (free Elysia swag in the mail to the first person who comments with the reference)

Thrilled to be sharing our science with the cream of the crop at Animal AgTech Innovation Summit in San Francisco!

We're honored to be selected to pitch at this year's Venture Connect conference and can't wait to share our world-changing technology right here in our own backyard of Raleigh, NC! CED is a resource that all of us are lucky to have. We're also really happy that our team at Venture Connect will be joined by strategic advisor Jacqueline Olich, PhD, whose unparalleled knowledge of the local entrepreneurship ecosystem will help us squeeze the absolute most out of this conference.

We're honored to be pitching at CED and will see you there 😉. Looks like an amazing lineup to be alongside of: https://lnkd.in/eeYij9_2

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🎙 Livestock emit about 104 Mt of methane from the enteric fermentation of ruminants. Methane is a short-lived climate pollutant and a potent greenhouse gas with a global warming potential 27 times higher than CO2. Methane is also responsible for almost one-third of the current increase in global average temperature. Addressing methane in the livestock sector is part of the solution to limit the temperature increase to below the 1.5 degrees Celsius target of the Paris Agreement. Check my conversation with Ashley Sweeting on opportunities to build low-carbon/methane and climate-resilient livestock systems around the world. https://lnkd.in/dCbZSab8

This image beautifully captured *from space* by GHGSAT using their proprietary satellite shows a plume of methane trailing from a cattle farm. Not only is it a striking illustration of the problem we are solving, it's a step towards bringing reliable methane sensing to world scale, without reliance on barn-based sensors that don't work for the vast majority of the world's cows and methane emissions. There's a long ways to go on the promise of remote sensing, and our friends Charles Park at metech.io and Doc Brown at CowBell Labs are filling the gap with things that can get into farmers' hands NOW--check them out!

🌬 Every company in our space agrees that they want their methane reduction products to be profitable for the farmers who use them. 💸 But we all vary in how much weight to put on potential productivity benefits vs. direct payments for reducing methane. 🌏 At Elysia we believe that direct, quantitative payments are essential to align motivation for farmers with the most ambitious climate goals of eliminating as much carbon as possible as fast as possible. 🗺 Companies like Athian and Ruminati are showing how this works in real time, and exactly how to turn all the complexity of methane insetting into an effective, workable, scalable system for everyone involved. https://lnkd.in/gZ4vSbEn

If you're still new to understanding the power of tackling methane, this article from last year by Joseph W. McFadden remains a great primer! Pay special attention to how Dr. McFadden describes the importance of making solutions that work for developing countries--where most enteric methane is produced--if we are to come anywhere close to solving this problem. This is a key focus of Elysia's methane-reducing crop technology that works cheaply and simply anywhere on earth: you just grow a seed. https://lnkd.in/gqzehvi2