Perspectives & Press
Arbor signs multi-year agreement to deliver carbon removal credits to Microsoft
Arbor today announced a contract to deliver 25,000 tons of permanent carbon dioxide removal to Microsoft. Starting in 2027, Arbor will support Microsoft’s climate goals by delivering 5,000 tons of carbon removal per year while generating enough clean electricity to power thousands of homes.
Arbor is first supplier signed onto Isometric’s BCCS Protocol
This protocol outlines the MRV and best practices for high-quality carbon removal of CO₂ from the atmosphere via Industrial Process Biogenic Carbon Capture and Storage.
Carbon Herald: Arbor named semifinalist for DOE Carbon Removal Purchase Pilot Prize
Arbor has been named a semifinalist in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Carbon Dioxide Removal Purchase Pilot Prize. The company will receive $50,000 in funding to advance its CO2 removal technology, part of a broader initiative to accelerate scalable solutions and support the growing carbon removal industry.
TechCrunch: Former SpaceX engineers build “vegetarian rocket engine” to save the climate
As a high schooler, Hartwig built a pedal-driven helicopter after reading about a human-powered helicopter competition in Popular Science. (It didn’t win.) He then went to USC for aerospace engineering, where he and his team built a rocket to go to space. (It did.) After graduating, Hartwig worked on the engines for SpaceX’s Dragon so the crew and cargo spacecraft could dock with the International Space Station. (It did, safely.)
Webinar: This is CDR: Arbor: Compact, Modular, BiCRS
In this episode of This Is CDR, Arbor CEO Brad Hartwig and CTO Andrés García-Clark discuss the company’s novel, compact, and modular BiCRS process.
Podcast: MCJ Collective: Startup Series: Arbor
On today’s episode, Brad Hartwig shares about his inspiring background, which includes time as a rocket engineer at SpaceX and nearly a decade on the USA National Swim Team. We cover how he surveyed the entire carbon dioxide removal space before landing on the idea for BiCRS and how his aerospace background seemed particularly well suited for Arbor's specific approach.
California invests $3 million to convert forest waste into carbon-negative fuel development
California announced $3 million in awards to jumpstart innovative technologies like Arbor designed to convert biomass to carbon-negative energy, which will also improve forest health, reduce wildfire risk, and improve the state’s watershed in the Sierra Nevada.
Arbor receives prepurchase of carbon removal from Frontier
In its largest round to date, Frontier has facilitated $11M of carbon removal purchases—from Arbor, Captura, Arca (formerly Carbin Minerals), Carbon To Stone, Cella, CREW and Inplanet—on behalf of Stripe and Shopify.