The Disaster: In March 1989, the Exxon Valdez supertanker struck a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska. It spilled an estimated 11 million gallons of heavy crude oil into one of the most pristine and rugged marine environments on Earth, coating roughly 1,300 miles of coastline.

The Mission: Your kitchen produces a constant stream of high-value organic waste—coffee grounds, apple cores, and vegetable peels. Throwing them in the trash creates methane in a landfill. Trekking out to a frozen compost pile in the middle of a Montana winter isn't always appealing. Your mission is to process this waste directly inside your home, odor-free, to create the most microbially dense fertilizer on the planet.

The Mission: Every time a storm hits, water washes over your roof, driveway, and street. It picks up a toxic cocktail of motor oil, brake dust (heavy metals), fertilizers, and dog waste. Usually, this "stormwater runoff" flows straight into a storm drain and dumps directly into the local creek, untreated. Your mission is to intercept this flow and filter it before it leaves your yard.