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ThrulineNetworks
San Francisco, California, United States
PD
Phil Dillard He / Him
Founder & CEO
(2)
3
Preferred learners
  • Anywhere
  • Academic experience or paid work
Categories
Social impact Civil engineering Mechanical engineering Robotics Environmental sustainability
Skills
communication communications systems research design
Project scope
What is the main goal for this project?

The main goal for the project is to co-design a solution to protect homes in high wildfire risk areas and to communicate with other nearby properties to optimize their response. Additionally, the project aims to provide recommendations to homeowners about things they can do to decrease their wildfire risk.


This will involve several different steps for the students, including:


- Leveraging existing networks and active resources to co-design a solution for home protection


- Developing a communication system for nearby properties to optimize their response


- Providing recommendations to homeowners to decrease wildfire risk


What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?


By the end of the project, students should complete the following list of activities:


- Co-designed solution for home protection in high wildfire risk areas


- Developed a communication system for nearby properties to optimize their response


- Provided recommendations to homeowners to decrease wildfire risk



Final deliverables:


- A comprehensive report outlining the co-designed solution, communication system, and recommendations for homeowners


- A presentation explaining the research, design process, and outcomes


How will you support learners in completing the project?

We will support participants appropriately. This will depend on the depth and breadth of the skills of the students and the scale of the initial solution to be delivered.

Supported causes
Climate action
About the company

Thruline Networks is an advisory services firm that drives creative thinking, manages projects, guides investments and builds solutions to problems related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and 9 Planetary Boundaries. The firm delivers value through thought leadership, content development, event production, financial advisory, impact advisory, business growth and capital access strategy services.

With a primary focus on with late Seed to Series B companies in the areas of waste-to-value, circularity, the company also explores enabling DeepTech, EdgeTech and Web 3 innovations designed to support such solutions. The company aims to provide resilient infrastructure, climate change mitigation, food security, ecosystem / biodiversity restoration that lead to improved health and welfare globally.

Thruline Networks aspires to create 100+ impact unicorns in the next decade, and will do this by working organizations across all sectors - public, private (startups, growing companies, and corporations), and non-profit - to build companies that can elevate humanity and its relationship to the natural systems of the planet at scale…while also being highly profitable.