

We Pay You To Grow Seaweed
for Carbon Removal.
Feed Your Family.
Grow Your Business.
Save the Planet.
First Gigaton Seaweed Farmers Carbon Collective is a growing network of
Philippine Seaweed Growers.
We pay you in advance to add a carbon-only crop to your existing operations.
Join Today to Add Your Profitable Carbon Crop!
Profit & Grow By Helping Stop Climate Change
The Philippines and their hardworking Seaweed Farmers have a historic, world-saving opportunity to fight climate change. The country is uniquely positioned to spearhead the global Seaweed-powered Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) Market. By 2040, global demand for Seaweed-CDR will be more than 5 billion tonnes of seaweed each year.
The Philippines can lead the way.
First Gigaton and the Seacat Seaweed Farmers Carbon Collective will help make it happen. Join us!
First Gigaton is officially registered for the $100M XPRIZE Carbon Removal funded by Elon Musk. The First Gigaton Team includes our Seacat Farming Partners ~ the Seaweed Farmers doing the hard work removing carbon and fighting climate change. A condition of the competition is that prize money must go to continuing the development of the team's project ~ growing the Seaweed-CDR industry with our Seacat Farming Partners in the Philippines.
Phases 1 and 2 of our plan below are part of the competition. Join us on this exciting adventure :).
Phase 1: World's First Seaweed-CDR Farm
First Gigaton is proud to partner with Seacat's first member, NAMALASA (Nagkahiusang Mananagat Ladol Seaweeds Association ~ United Fishermen Ladol Seaweeds Association) to launch the world's first dedicated Seaweed-CDR (Carbon Dioxide Removal) Farm.
Phase 2: XPRIZE ~ 250 x 1 ha Farms
Seacat will expand rapidly through 2022 and 2023. By January 2024, we'll partner with up to 250 Philippine Seaweed Coops to establish 250 hectares of Seaweed-CDR capacity. These Farms are the backbone of our XPRIZE demonstration to remove more than 5000 tonnes of carbon each year. Join Seacat NOW for the 2023 planting cycle.
Phase 3: Scaling Nationwide
The Philippines' seaweed production is currently 1.6 million tonnes per year. By 2030, Seacat's Philippine Sea Farmers will scale the country's Seaweed-CDR market to produce more than 6 million tonnes of seaweed and remove 1.2 million tonnes of carbon each year. Join Us Now to secure your share of the Seaweed-CDR market.
Join Now for 2023!

Your Seaweed Farm is a Powerful Climate Solution
Seaweed Farms ~ like yours ~ are the world's best chance for preventing catastrophic climate change.
Most people think planting trees are the solution. While reforestation and conservation are absolutely critical to the climate fight, trees take decades to grow and sequester carbon for less than 100 years.
In comparison, seaweed is harvested in only six to eight weeks ~ and with the Seacat Protocol, ~ can sequester carbon for thousands of years. Only seaweed and kelp grow fast enough to remove the hundreds of gigatons of atmospheric carbon dioxide needed to restore a stable climate.
Human-made carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions cause climate change. The oceans absorb most of the world's atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions. Sadly, the excessive global emissions that cause climate change also cause seawater acidification when absorbed by the oceans.
Through photosynthesis, macroalgae (i.e. seaweed and kelp) absorb the carbon dioxide in seawater and convert it into the algae's biomass. Growing seaweed is thus both a remedy for atmospheric carbon and ocean acidification.
In the wild, most of the carbon captured by seaweed is released back into the atmosphere as the seaweed dies and decomposes on shorelines. In the case of your farm's harvested seaweed, the captured carbon is eventually released into the atmosphere as the seaweed is processed and consumed in product form.
To fight climate change: 1. We need to grow more seaweed! And 2. We need the seaweed to sequester the carbon it captures in its biomass permanently.
The Seacat Protocol transforms the crops you plant for CDR into a powerful climate solution. At each Seaweed-CDR harvest, Seacat sends a sample of the crop to a laboratory (e.g. a Philippines Department of Science and Technology Lab) to accurately determine each crop's carbon content.
Seacat then transports the harvested seaweed to a deep-sea location designated by the Philippine Coast Guard, where the ocean depth exceeds 1000 meters. There, Seacat sinks the entire crop to the ocean floor.
At depths greater than 1000 meters, the deep-ocean pressure mineralizes the seaweed's biomass, including the captured carbon. This mineral state sequesters the carbon for thousands of years.
Seaweed-CDR is Smart Carbon Removal. As a result, global demand for Seaweed-CDR will soon dwarf the global market for all other seaweed products such as agar, carrageenan, food, feed, and fertilizer.
The Philippines' proximity to ocean depths greater than 1000 meters gives the country's seaweed farms a distinct competitive advantage ~ and the opportunity to lead this new industry.
The world needs your expertise and skills. Seacat connects you with global corporations and citizens who will pay Philippine Seaweed Farms good money to grow more and more crops for carbon removal.
Future generations worldwide will know and thank you for your role in stopping (and reversing) climate change.
Feed your Family.
Grow your Business.
Save the Planet.
How Seacat Works
First Gigaton is the parent company of the Seacat Sea Farmers Carbon Collective. Seacat's role is to create a community for Philippine Seaweed Farmers who want to grow CDR Crops. As a community, Seacat shares information, resources, best practices, and collective buying power to ensure the success of our members. First Gigaton's role is to provide financing and support to Seacat members and find buyers for the Carbon Credits created by the Farmers' CDR Crops.
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
All Seaweed Farms in the Philippines are welcome!
Membership is Free Forever. We just need to start with your email address. No Cost. No Risk. No Obligation.
In time, we anticipate partnering with most, if not all, the Seaweed Farms in the country. (The world needs you!).
Everyone can join. As a member, you'll receive information and advice on how to improve your farm operations. You can also connect with other members to share ideas and best practices.
Throughout each season, we will be selecting members to receive support from First Gigaton to start growing their Seaweed-CDR crops.
First Gigaton will select our first partners based on:
1. Closeness of your seaweed farm to sea depths greater than 1000 meters so we can keep the cost of transport to a minimum.
2. The level of your experience. (At first, we need to learn from the best!)
Please join the Collective now, no matter how you feel about the above criteria. We want to get to know you and appreciate everyone's initiative. We also need to expand quickly, so now is the time to secure your spot.
FAQ
All Philippine Seaweed Farms and Seaweed Farmers Associations are encouraged to become Seacat Members.
As a member, you will connect with other members to share information, best practices and resources to constantly improve your own seaweed operations.
Seacat Partners are Seacat Members that have already been selected by First Gigaton to receive funding for their first Seaweed-CDR Farm Plot.
Our goal is to make every Seacat Member a Seacat Partner as soon as possible. The world needs us!
ABOUT US
Seacat Seaweed Farmers Carbon Collective (sea.cat) is the growers/supply side of the world's first Seaweed-Powered Carbon Dioxide Removal (Seaweed-CDR) Market.
Seacat brings together seaweed farms from across the Philippines (and soon the world) to dedicate growing allotments of their seaweed crops exclusively for Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR).
Seacat is the exclusive supplier of CDR Credits to the First Gigaton Carbon Removal Collective.
First Gigaton (firstgigaton.com) is the buying/demand side of the Market. First Gigaton crowdfunds the rapid scaling of the CDR capacity of our Seacat Partner Farms by providing companies and citizens with a complete range of unique and sustainable carbon-funding solutions.
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First Gigaton és una empresa emergent situada a la costa oest del Canadà al territori tradicional i no cedit dels pobles salish de la costa i el territori tradicional de la primera nació Snuneymuxw (Nanaimo, BC).
La nostra missió és eliminar el carboni atmosfèric amb la suficient rapidesa per prevenir un canvi climàtic catastròfic i restaurar una biosfera estable i pròspera.
El nostre mercat d'eliminació ràpida de carboni alimentat per algues elimina el carboni de manera ràpida, mesurable i permanent. El més important, en estar descentralitzat i basat en multituds, és la solució escalable i duradora definitiva.
El Sea Cat Sea Farmers Carbon Collective (sea.cat) és la part dels productors/oferta del Mercat. El col·lectiu de agricultors reuneix granges d'algues de totes les mides d'arreu del món per "fogar" una part creixent dels seus cultius d'algues i algues dedicades únicament a la captura de carboni.
First Gigaton Carbon Collective (firstgigaton.com) és el costat dels compradors/demanda del mercat. Aquest col·lectiu finança la ràpida escalada de la capacitat de producció del Sea Farmers Collective. First Gigaton ho fa proporcionant als ciutadans, comunitats i empreses una gamma completa de solucions de finançament de carboni úniques i sostenibles.
El nostre objectiu és capturar (ho heu endevinat) la primera gigatona d'emissions globals de carboni. Tot el nostre carboni capturat serà mesurat, verificat i enfonsat en profunditat als oceans de tot el món. Aleshores, seguirem escalant fins que tinguem un clima estable i una biosfera pròspera.
La nostra visió és que els membres d'ambdós col·lectius puguin dir als nostres néts i besnéts que vam eliminar el primer gigató i vam liderar el moviment que va revertir el canvi climàtic. . .
"I ara aquest món tan bonic és teu".