Mycelium | Open-Access Emissions Database

15,000 UK Companies now tracked

Mycelium started as an idea, then as a side hustle, and over the last couple of years has grown into full blown ‘thing’. Our idea is backed by Innovate UK, with the grant funding enabling us to get our tech built, and database underway.

At time of writing, we’ve just released the Beta version of the platform, with over 15,000 UK companies’ carbon emissions tracked and logged and available to browse, fully open-access.

Here’s the Beta sign-up page: mycelium.global/betaaccessrequest

To get things going I’ve had to hustle more than I’ve ever hustled in my life. But hustle in a good way. Fortunately, one area I didn’t have to hustle too hard in, was assembling an animated pitch video to communicate our mission.

The video itself was spliced together with the help of the Grizzle Animation team, I swooped in at the end to claim some glory.

Pro bono Climate Animations

Where it began

This whole journey started in 2020, just before Covid kicked off and Extinction Rebellion (XR) were a driving force in the climate movement. During that time I was active with them and ended up in a bizarre situation where just before getting arrested at a demonstration in London, I was checking in on my phone on some work we were doing at Grizzle for Oil behemoth BP. It was a wakeup call to say the least. Clients were dropped, all the awkward phone calls were made.

Off the back of that we tracked our own emissions at Grizzle, and also created a studio passion piece called Utter Shambles highlighting the continuing rise of global emissions and the complete lack of coverage from mainstream media.

It was nice to do, people liked the animation, but we felt we could do more. I got on the phone and picked out some impact led organisations that I thought were doing good work, offering our services for free. It was surprisingly hard to convince people that it was a genuine offer, but eventually we were able to create a really nice piece of work for the ENA and then this piece for Reactive Technologies explaining grid inertia and why it’s vital for renewable energy grids of the future.

So, this piece for Mycelium felt like the next in the series of pro bono work, and we’re hoping the database will drive as much climate action as the quality of the video would suggest!

Competition time

With 4 Pro bono/passion projects under our belt, in 2025 at Grizzle we’re planning on going bigger than ever before. We’re wrapping our pro bono activities into a competition for some of the most up and coming climate startups in the UK. We’re inviting pre-seed, bootstrapping-to-the-hilt-startups, with world changing climate focussed ideas, to tell us about their mission, so we can see if we can make them something truly outstanding to tell their story.

Everyone needs a little booster in life, and animation can do such good to a startup’s image. To investors, to the public, to anyone who has a look.

Only thing we haven’t decided on yet is a name!