PARTNERSHIPS
We build partnerships for good.
At Anthropocene Institute, we look for the breakthroughs still waiting to be noticed, and we champion them long before the returns arrive. We give thought leaders a megaphone. And we forge the connections that let the sharpest minds working on Earth’s hardest problems do what they do best.
Who are you?
Entrepreneurs
If you’re an entrepreneur with a solution to the climate-change problem, we may be able to help. We engage with startups, whether you’re just coming out of the research stage or looking for ways to commercialize your product.
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Business Guidance Our network of technologists have deep industrial, patent, and policymaking experience. We can help to design your business model and to market evolving market conditions.
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Networking We are members of major scientific societies. We work with institutions, including ARPA-E and major research universities, to bring resources needed to build your team.
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Investors Our network of investors is dedicated to mobilizing capital to solve Earth’s challenges. We can connect you with the appropriate funder or agency that are aligned with your goals.
Make Clean Energy
The global population grew from 1 billion in 1800 to 7.9 billion in 2020, and it’s likely to stay on that trajectory. We seek out innovations that deliver abundant energy to power our growing population in ways that are clean and safe.
Engineering Safety Margin
We’re looking for technologies that can scale to address the big, global problems we face, such as climate disruption, abundant clean energy, marine conservation, and environmental sustainability.
Improve Cost of Living
Our lifestyles are powered by energy. We seek to build a prosperous world, and that’s attainable with clean and cheap energy. Let’s get to 1 cent energy together.
Displace harmful industries
The Industrial Revolution was driven by fossil fuels, but it’s time to displace oil and gas and other harmful industries — without disrupting our natural ecosystems.
Investors
Whether you’re a seed investor or part of a major, established fund looking for smart ESG investments, our Institute can help you understand the most promising technologies for solving climate change.
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Partnerships Want to mobilize financing to help build a more sustainable future? Our partnerships with entrepreneurs, institutions, and other investors can help guide your decisions and enhance value creation.
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Advice Have questions about promising technologies? We have a network of expert scientists and technologists who have answers.
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Access to Innovators We keep a pulse on the entrepreneurial community. Whether you’re interested in advanced nuclear, carbon capture, or smart grid technologies, we can make introductions to the most promising breakthroughs and innovators.
Atomic Energy
Atomic energy is already among the cleanest sources of energy: no greenhouse gases or toxic pollutants are released during operations. The Anthropocene advocates for the continued operation of existing atomic energy plants and for the development of new reactor designs that are safer to operate and more versatile in use.
Solid-State Fusion (SSF)
There is a technological solution right on the horizon that has the potential to permanently solve the energy problem. Once commercialized, it has the potential to provide vast amounts of zero-carbon energy at low costs.
Electrical Grid
The electrical grid infrastructure is showing its age and is vulnerable to extreme weathers conditions. The Anthropocene advocates for a more resilient power delivery system that accommodates an electric vehicle fleet and grid storage capacity and self generating systems.
Oceans
The oceans cover two thirds of our planet’s surface and are responsible for over half of our oxygen and one fifth of our nutrition. When they are in trouble, so are we.
Institutions
Policies and funding matter. The Anthropocene works with universities, non-profits, and governmental organizations in the US and abroad to drive awareness and support for solutions for clean energy, health, social justice, and prosperity for all.
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Governments We work with all levels of government, both domestically and internationally, to inform decision makers on innovations and they affect their constituents. The Anthropocene has actively participated discussions at the Energy Summit by the Department of Energy’s Advanced Project Agency (ARPA-E) program.
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Universities Researchers and professors turn to us to help establish relationships that advance their groundbreaking thoughts and technologies. We help fund projects such as Larry Forsley’s Trackers program on nuclear fusion.
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Non-Profits We help groundbreaking non-profits educate entrepreneurs and innovators, and we co-created a survey about energy preferences in the U.S. with ecoAmerica.
Research universities
UC Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, MIT, University of Arizona, University of Michigan, Michigan State, and Tohoku University.
Advocacy and policy groups
Generation Atomic, Foundation for Climate Restoration, Breakthrough Institute, Good Energy Collective, and Mothers for Nuclear.
Industry bodies
Fusion Industry Association, North American Young Generation in Nuclear, TerraPraxis, and WePlanet.
Survey and communications partners
ecoAmerica, on the American Climate Perspectives Survey and its findings on public support for nuclear energy.