Happy Earth Day!
At ReefCycle, we use biology-inspired materials to build coastal protection that works with the environment. Low carbon, high impact.
Smart design, natural solutions.
#ReefCycle #EarthDay2025 #NatureBasedSolutions #CoastalInnovation #BioCement
We create living shorelines using nature-based materials to restore reefs, protect coasts, and support marine life. 🌊🐚
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#livingshorelines #coastalrestoration #reefrestoration #marinerestoration #oceanhealth #sustainablecoasts #naturebasedsolutions #climateresilience #coralreef #oysterreef
High fives 🤚 ✋ because we’re half way through @biomimicryinstitute ‘s Ray of Hope Accelerator. Featured: photos from our founders retreat sharing nature-inspired technology, warming up by the fireplace, playing volleyball, visiting the American Chestnut Society 🌰, and spending an incredible week with impact founders out in nature🌲 🌊 🪸
Our camera roll from NY Climate Week 😂! We had so much fun we forgot about our phones 🌍 🌱 🌊 Highlights included kicking off the week with a feature of #ReefRocket at the opening of NASDAQ, sharing our nature-inspired technology at the opening of the Ray of Hope accelerator with @biomimicryinstitute , continuing to oyster monitor with @billionoyster , having almost all of our team together in one city, meeting so many amazing impact-driven scientists and entrepreneurs, and ditching our phones all together to head upstate and watch the leaves change 🍂.
Reef Rocket 🚀✨➡️ the prototype & its applications!
Reef restoration is critical to protecting coastlines, restoring biodiversity, and promoting natural services like water filtration and carbon sequestration. This requires the careful transplantation of durable structures into marine environments 💪 🐠
Our enzymatic biocement could eliminate the environmental impact of cement while harnessing nature to re-grow reef-building material. We’re testing our next-wave material in marine environments to validate the application of nature-grown cement towards coastal resiliency and biodiversity recovery.
Reef Rocket was designed with and for communities in New York Harbor to enable local fabrication of modular reef structures to support existing citizen science reef restoration. The modules can be configured to form barrier reefs, habitats, and living sea walls.
We’re currently testing our design with @billionoyster to validate and scale our solution as larger marine structures while exploring other applications for biocement that bring us closer to nature and a climate resilient, low-emissions future.
How else can biocement pave the way to a resilient future? 🌍💭
We’re building @reef.cycle because climate resiliency requires durable materials that heal nature, rather than deplete it.
Our founder ( @marylempres 👋) sat down with @whatdesigncando to share the story behind our design and how oysters and material come together to restore our relationship with nature and build an adaptive coastline.
Thank you @whatdesigncando for crafting this beautiful video 🌿
Sharing our journey as a cleantech startup ✨ ⬇️
🌱 developed a method for growing cement as a master’s thesis
🦪 tested our solution in marine habitats to study durability
✍️ patent search & filed provisional patent
📑 formed a LLC & opened a bank account
💡recieved initial grant funding from @openideo
⚡️accelerating our solution with @whatdesigncando
👀 follow along as we grow our creative climate solution!
What does it mean to redesign everything?
We’re thrilled to be joining @whatdesigncando ‘s international cohort of creative climate solutions- all of which respond to different climate urgencies by redesigning just about everything.
Follow along as Reef Rocket, our bio-cement reef restoration design, is launched into actions 🚀 🌊
New York Harbor was once one of the largest and most biodiverse reef ecosystems.
We took the @whatdesigncando stage this week to share Reef Rocket: our first application of nature-grown cement to grow artificial reef modules for New York Harbor. We’re looking forward to continuing these conversations in Amsterdam and beyond!
