Lithos Carbon
Lithos Carbon’s award-winning technology accelerates Earth’s natural carbon cycle to permanently remove CO₂ from the air. Leveraging a decade of research, Lithos deploys enhanced rock weathering in agriculture while simultaneously improving crop yields and soil health for farmers. They provide farmers with organic-grade volcanic basalt dust and empirically measure each ton of CO₂ removed with state-of-the art science. Their mission is to decarbonize our food system, which is responsible for 25% of worldwide anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.
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Lithos Carbon has been named a semifinalist for the U.S. Department of Energy's (@energy) Historic Carbon Dioxide Removal Purchase Prize! 🏆 The Carbon Dioxide Removal Purchase Pilot Prize represents the first-ever direct CDR purchase by the U.S. Federal Government. 📋🏗 Semifinalists were selected by a team of technical experts at DOE and National Laboratories based on a detailed evaluation of technical, business, operational, and community benefit plan proposals that included input and feedback from domestic communities.
We’re thrilled to share that Lithos Carbon has been selected as a Top 20 Finalist in the prestigious #XPRIZECarbonRemoval Competition! 🌍♻️ This $100 million global competition, funded by the Musk Foundation, aims to address one of humanity’s greatest challenges: rebalancing Earth’s carbon cycle. Finalists were rigorously evaluated across three key areas: Operations, Sustainability, and Cost. We’re proud to stand out as the only US-based and US-deployed team recognized in the Rocks category. 🪨 At Lithos Carbon, we’re passionate about collaborating with generational farmers to harness the power of Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) for a sustainable future. Our innovative approach not only permanently removes CO2 from the air but also enhances crop yields and soil health. 🌱🧑🌾
Rick Bennett from Bennett Ag Services spreading a Lithos basalt rock dust delivery.
Lithos' hauling partner, Cutting it Close Hauling, delivers basalt rock dust ahead of farmers' spreading it on selected fields. This removes carbon and improves crop yields and soil health for farmers.
In this snippet from @npr @wbur’s Here and Now podcast, our co-founder and CEO Mary Yap takes journalist Chris Bentley to a quarry in one of our Deployment Hubs, where 42,000 pounds of explosives kick-start a circular economy that fights climate change. Learn how enhanced rock weathering, a natural carbon removal method, is being accelerated with the basalt dust and the partnership of forward-thinking farmers like Russell Hedrick.
Appearing on the My Climate Journey podcast, Mary - CEO and co-founder of Lithos, gives background on the natural carbon cycle and how it has a thermostatic way of modulating the climate. This explanation is crucial to understanding how we enhance and accelerate a process already occurring in nature through upcycling leftover fine particulate basalt rock from quarries and partnering with farmers who, in turn, spread on carefully selected agricultural fields.
Lithos Carbon has been recognized by Fast Company as the Winner of the General Excellence award in the World Changing Ideas of 2023. They are also a finalist in the Climate category and an honoree in the Agriculture and North America categories! https://www.fastcompany.com/90878749/lithos-carbon-volcanic-rock-dust
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