A Safe Climate by 2050
Restoring pre-industrial CO₂ levels by maximizing natural carbon dioxide removal (CDR)
Ending the climate crisis in 25 years requires safe, affordable, and scalable solutions.
DeepGreen Solutions is committed to restoring pre-industrial carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels by mid-century, by replicating and optimizing nature’s most powerful CO₂ removal process.
We are a nonprofit startup headquartered in California.
Not your everyday CDR company
Nature has performed CDR at the scale we need, before each ice age.
We are following her lead.
To end the climate crisis, the world needs to reduce atmospheric CO₂ to historically safe, pre-industrial levels … from today’s 420+ parts per million (ppm) to below 300 ppm.
That requires pulling a trillion tons of excess CO₂ out of the atmosphere.
Nature has achieved this many times. Our research shows that in the right conditions, she also pulls out multi-gigatons of CO₂ very rapidly. Within months!
We plan to carefully and intentionally replicate that process, at a small fraction of the cost of other CDR methods.
We focus on the CDR approach most able to end the climate crisis within 25 years
It’s boosting healthy photosynthesis in the ocean.
And it has to do with iron, which much of the ocean lacks. When iron-rich dust and volcanic ash blow out to sea, furnishing a bit of iron in the right places, phytoplankton grow quickly—capturing vast amounts of CO₂ through photosynthesis.
These tiny green plants also form the foundation of the marine food web—feeding everything from microscopic zooplankton to fish to whales.
In addition to pulling down CO₂, this ocean “iron fertilization” counters ocean acidification and enhances fishery production.
What we’re up to now
Developing innovative monitoring technology to directly measure atmospheric CO₂ removal
Refining a protocol to optimize the OIF process
Planning a pilot project to demonstrate the technology… and provide the basis for scaling up to 60 gigatons of CDR a year
And seeking funding to make this all possible.
Intentional OIF
Intentional ocean iron fertilization (OIF) replicates the natural replenishment of iron in the upper ocean, to boost photosynthesis.
We are developing efficient, accurate, and low-cost monitoring to keep the process thousands of times less expensive than other forms of CDR.
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Meet the Team
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Peter Fiekowsky
Chief Climate Officer
Over the last decade, Peter Fiekowsky has pioneered the field of climate restoration—the effort to restore a safe climate by 2050. He authored Climate Restoration—The Only Future That Will Sustain the Human Race and has founded several organizations committed to humanity flourishing.
Peter is an MIT-educated physicist, author, and Silicon Valley entrepreneur with 27 patents.
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Thanh Huynh
Chief Executive Officer
Thanh is passionate about restoring the Earth's climate for humanity to thrive for generations to come. As Vice President of Strategy & BizOps at OPRWorld, Inc., he developed OIF projects worldwide, arranged strategic partnerships, and guided business and financial planning.
Thanh has worked as a high-tech product leader, driving products from concept to release. He also provides executive, leadership, and performance coaching and consulting.
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David Snyder, MBA, PE, CISSP
Chief Operations Officer
David Snyder is a California-registered Civil Engineer (PE) and IEEE Senior Member.
As an environmental engineer, he conducted site selection and environmental impact studies for energy facilities and the investigation and remediation of soil and groundwater contamination at industrial sites.
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Alan Burnham, PhD
Chief Science Officer
With a doctorate in Physical Chemistry, Alan has spent most of his career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, working on and leading energy and national security projects.
He has published roughly 300 scientific papers and is on the editorial board of two journals.
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Joe Brabec
Chief Technology Officer
As an electrical engineer, Joe designed, built, and programmed embedded systems in a wide range of industries for five decades.
Recently he retired as Chief Engineer and CTO of Topcon Corporation, where he earned 39 patents and developed many World's First™ technologies.
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Marcus Cooper
Chief of Staff
Navy officer, flight controller and political campaign manager, Marcus is a pro in logistics, management, and contract fulfillment.
When not working on DeepGreen, he is designing innovative, AI translation and transcription services.
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Carole Douglis
Chief Communications Officer
Carole is an award-winning journalist specializing in climate and environment. She has written for major magazines, NatGeo, UN Environment Programme, and research institutes around the world.
Involved in climate restoration since 2019, Carole co-authored the field’s foundational book and papers with Peter Fiekowksy.
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