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Green Mars: Humanity’s Climate-Positive Future in Space

With Erika DeBenedictis


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Humanity today grapples with the urgent need for climate-positive solutions on Earth and a vision for what a positive relationship with nature might look like. However, new green technologies often struggle to compete with entrenched industrial processes that prioritize cost over environmental impact. At Pioneer Labs, we are taking a new approach: using space as a unique testbed for developing and refining green technologies. We engineer biomanufacturing solutions to upcycle raw materials and waste streams into all the essentials for human life. Parallel efforts explore climate engineering approaches, such as nanoparticles, to warm Mars and create environments where photosynthetic organisms can grow, enabling a self-sustaining biosphere. By advancing these efforts, we aim to make biomanufacturing ubiquitous, reliable, and green—on Earth and beyond.

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