Bob Weir Participating In Algae Systems Indiegogo Campaign

Grateful Dead lyricist and political and environmental activist John Perry Barlow has enlisted the help of his longtime collaborator and Dead guitarist Bob Weir for a campaign to help save Algae Systems – a company Barlow co-founded. Due to a sudden loss of funding, Algae Systems needs to raise over half a million dollars in a little over a week and an Indiegogo page been established to help reach that goal. One of the “perks” available is a private concert and meet-up with Weir, Lukas Nelson and friends at Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley, California.

Other options for “perks” include spending an afternoon with John Perry Barlow, a framed limited edition print of the handwritten lyrics to the Dead’s “I Need a Miracle” composed by JPB and signed by both JPB and Bob Weir, as well as posters, apparel and more. Head here for a full rundown of the available options.

Here’s a little bit more information about Algae Systems and the reason for the campaign:

Planet Earth has no externalities. As Bucky Fuller told us 40 years ago, it truly is a spaceship. We need solutions that recognize that waste is either a verb or a squandered resource, since all flows are in a closed loop.

Our team spent nearly every waking moment of the last 6 years of our lives, approximately 394,200 hours, dedicated to developing our waste treatment technology. We’ve had numerous successes and exceeded our expectations.

We figured out how to transform raw sewage into energy-positive clean water and carbon-negative, water-positive green fuels. In the process of growing biomass and turning it into fuel, we discovered something much more valuable. We can purify wastewater without wasting energy.

We are excited about the viability of our technology and the benefits it can bring to a world where millions of children are killed every year by dirty water.

However, our primary investor, a large Japanese corporation who initially funded our small startup, isn’t interested in wastewater. They are no longer willing to provide funding to us as our interests no longer align.

The truth is, we are in a tight spot.

We have until Jan 17th to raise enough money to buy back our company and continue operating. If we do not raise enough capital, our technology and IP will be shelved indefinitely, its benefits never brought to light.

To our knowledge, there is no other process that can provide the benefits we can and do so at a profit.

We are in a position to invite people like you to help us continue developing our waste treatment system and deploy it at a commercial scale to bring its benefits to communities.

Let’s harness the power of the crowd to support existing technology and is so critically needed on this planet. We hope that you are inspired by our work and that you see the benefits it can provide.

Follow this link to visit the Algae Systems Indiegogo page.