About the Anthropocene Institute

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.

We can help you bridge the gap between public and private sectors and connect you with investors so your technology or innovation can start making a difference in solving Earth’s problems.

The Anthropocene Institute provides due diligence to an investor pool in the broad program areas of One Cent Energy and Ocean Conservation. 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. We also have a wide network of contacts and we know about the entrepreneurs making a difference when it comes to climate change.

We work with all levels of government, both domestically and internationally, to inform decision makers on innovations and they affect their constituents. We help them understand the maturity of technologies in areas including reliable atomic energy, LENR, electrification, and ocean sustainability. The Anthropocene has actively participated discussions at the Energy Summit by the Department of Energy’s Advanced Project Agency (ARPA-E) program.

We forge connections among government and educational institutions, thought leaders from different scientific fields, entrepreneurs developing the technologies we need, and investors—and we help them work together to address our global challenges.

When it comes to the problems plaguing Earth, there’s no telling where the best solutions will come from. Researchers and professors turn to us to help establish relationships that advance their groundbreaking thoughts and technologies. We have partnered with universities and researchers in a range of ways. We help fund projects such as Larry Forsley’s Trackers program on nuclear fusion; Peter Hagelstein’s work on Nuclear-Phonon coupling at MIT; Jacopo Buongiorno and MIT’s Future of Nuclear Study; and William Chueh and the Stanford batteries project. Universities also provide a talent pool of students who work with us on ventures such as the UC Berkeley Energy Club.

Innovation and education will help us build a better future. We help groundbreaking non-profits like AirMiners educate entrepreneurs and innovators about how to capture and repurpose carbon. And, we co-created a survey about energy preferences in the U.S. with ecoAmerica and promoted the findings to help policymakers understand that the majority of people in the U.S. want nuclear energy as a major part of the energy mix. We promoted a Spanish language air filter for COVID.

We help grant-providing organizations in their mission to address global climate change. When foundations lack the scientific expertise and capabilities to clarify why they should invest or support various climate change technologies or efforts, we can often provide the needed knowledge and resources.

To help get the facts straight and move in the right directions, we partner with a range of “think tanks,” foundations, and other groups to advocate for each other. In one instance, we might provide funding. In another, we might connect groups for cross-pollination, whether that includes thought leadership, a collaborative event, or a simple Letter to the Editor voicing our beliefs. We’ve helped a variety of advocacy groups, including Generation Atomic, Foundation for Climate Restoration, Breakthrough Institute, Good Energy Collective, and Mothers for Nuclear.

When thought leaders’ values and expertise align with ours, we provide them with a megaphone. We advocate for the technologies and policies we—and they—are involved with. We place them on panels at events, secure and write contributed articles under their bylines, and promote their ideas through various channels. Some of these people include James Hansen, Kirsty Gogan, and Dr. Leslie Dewan.