The Future of Fire Protection Should Be Proven.
Green Shield Fire is developing next-generation, bio-based wildfire protection technology through independent research, rigorous testing, field demonstration, and partnerships with researchers, fire agencies, universities, and government.
Our focus is simple: develop, test, and validate next-generation wildfire protection technology alongside the researchers, firefighters, and public agencies who will put it to work.
Wildfire is no longer a seasonal problem.
Communities, firefighters, forests, utilities, transportation systems, and critical infrastructure are confronting increasingly complex wildfire conditions. The next generation of fire protection needs to be evaluated not only by how effectively it suppresses fire, but by how safely, efficiently, and responsibly it can be deployed.
A new fire environment requires new thinking.
Firefighter Safety
Firefighters operate in extreme heat, smoke, rapidly changing conditions, and complex chemical environments. New suppression technologies should be evaluated with their safety in mind from the beginning.
Environmental Responsibility
Fire suppression can affect soil, waterways, ecosystems, and communities. Green Shield Fire is exploring bio-based materials designed around a lower-persistence, environmentally responsible approach.
Practical Deployment
A technology only matters if firefighters can actually use it. Green Shield Fire is being developed around practical mixing, transport, application, storage, and field deployment.
From Fire Suppression to Fire Protection.
The next generation of wildfire technology should do more than stop fire. It should protect the people fighting it, the families living nearby, the water they depend on, and the communities that must recover afterward.
People
Consider firefighter handling, exposure, equipment compatibility, and the people who live and work in fire-prone communities.
Water
Consider what happens when suppression materials, fire debris, and runoff interact with watersheds and drinking-water resources.
Environment
Evaluate environmental fate, biodegradation, soil interactions, aquatic effects, persistence, and post-deployment cleanup needs.
Property
Measure whether effective protection can reduce structural loss, infrastructure damage, and the disruption that follows wildfire.
From promising idea to measurable evidence.
Green Shield Fire is pursuing independent research and testing to understand exactly where the technology performs, where it needs improvement, and where it can provide meaningful value to firefighters and communities.
Fire Suppression Performance
Evaluate flame suppression, ignition resistance, thermal exposure, and protection performance across relevant wildfire and structural fire scenarios.
Thermal Protection
Study moisture retention, surface coverage, adhesion, thermal degradation, and the duration of protective effects under extreme heat.
Firefighter Safety
Evaluate handling, deployment, exposure, equipment compatibility, cleanup, and operational considerations for firefighters and first responders.
Environmental Fate
Investigate biodegradation, aquatic effects, soil interactions, environmental persistence, and potential cleanup requirements.
Water & Logistics
Explore whether a dry-concentrate approach can reduce transportation, staging, storage, and water logistics during wildfire response.
Field Deployment
Evaluate application through existing firefighting equipment and investigate potential applications for remote, aerial, and infrastructure protection.
What happens after the fire is out?
Fire suppression does not end when the flames disappear. Materials used during an emergency can interact with soil, waterways, infrastructure, and communities long after deployment.
The Drinking-Water Question
The Safe Drinking Water Act provides a framework for identifying contaminants that may warrant attention as potential threats to drinking-water systems.
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EPA's Contaminant Candidate List is part of a forward-looking process for identifying contaminants that may warrant additional research or future regulatory consideration.
The Upstream Question
Green Shield is interested in a complementary question: can fire-suppression technology be designed to reduce unnecessary environmental burdens before they reach soil and water?
From contamination response to contamination prevention.
Green Shield does not position itself as a substitute for drinking-water treatment or regulation. Our research question is upstream: what can be prevented before it ever becomes a water-treatment problem?
From “Forever Chemicals” to Proactive Protection.
PFAS has demonstrated a difficult lesson in environmental stewardship: a material can solve an immediate problem while creating long-term challenges that emerge elsewhere.
Green Shield Fire is exploring a different design philosophy. Instead of evaluating fire suppression only by what happens during application, we are investigating what happens before, during, and after deployment.
Firefighter Health
Evaluate handling, exposure considerations, PPE requirements, equipment compatibility, and operational safety.
Water Protection
Investigate runoff, water interactions, aquatic effects, and potential implications for watersheds.
Environmental Fate
Study biodegradation, persistence, soil interactions, decomposition, and post-deployment behavior.
Pollution Prevention
Explore whether safer materials can reduce environmental burdens at the source rather than relying solely on downstream remediation.
The prevention principle.
The objective is not simply to manage environmental impacts after deployment. It is to investigate whether better material choices can prevent unnecessary burdens from being created in the first place.
Connecting wildfire innovation with America's priorities.
Green Shield Fire is exploring research and partnership opportunities across federal programs addressing wildfire, firefighter safety, environmental protection, drinking water, innovation, and community resilience.
Environmental Protection Agency
Potential areas of alignment include pollution prevention, safer chemistry, drinking-water protection, environmental research, PFAS reduction, and small-business environmental innovation.
National Science Foundation
Potential research alignment around materials science, bio-based innovation, fire behavior, and the scientific development of emerging technologies.
Department of Homeland Security
Exploring opportunities related to disaster resilience, critical infrastructure protection, emergency response, and technology development.
FEMA
Potential relevance to wildfire mitigation, community resilience, disaster preparedness, and reducing losses before catastrophic events occur.
USDA / Wildland Fire Research
Potential alignment with wildfire science, forest management, suppression research, and resilience across fire-prone landscapes.
Joint Fire Science Program
Interested in rigorous independent research into wildfire suppression performance, deployment, environmental effects, and operational effectiveness.
Good technology deserves good evidence.
Green Shield Fire believes emerging wildfire technologies should earn trust through measurable results. Our research priorities are designed to create the evidence needed by firefighters, researchers, agencies, communities, water experts, and infrastructure operators.
Research. Test. Demonstrate. Deploy.
Green Shield Fire is building toward a research and demonstration model that brings together technology developers, researchers, firefighters, communities, government agencies, and infrastructure partners.
The objective is not simply to demonstrate that a new suppression material works. It is to measure whether a new approach to fire protection can create value across the entire system—from the fire line to the watershed to the community.
Research
Independent Testing
Field Demonstration
Government Partnership
Scaled Deployment
What if we measured protection differently?
Green Shield is exploring a broader framework for evaluating fire protection—one that considers the people, water, environment, property, and economic resilience surrounding a fire.
People
Firefighter safety, community exposure, operational practicality, and human-centered deployment.
Water
Watershed protection, runoff considerations, water quality, and post-fire environmental burden.
Environment
Environmental fate, persistence, biodegradation, ecological effects, and recovery.
Economy
Property protection, infrastructure continuity, avoided damage, recovery costs, and community economic resilience.
Green Shield implementation should help create the healthiest and best places in America to raise a family.
This is not a claim that one technology creates a healthy community. It is a benchmark for asking whether fire-protection decisions improve human health, environmental health, resilience, and economic stability together.
Toward a National Wildfire Resilience Demonstration.
Green Shield Fire is developing a demonstration model that brings together technology developers, researchers, firefighters, water and environmental experts, communities, government agencies, and infrastructure partners.
Communities
Explore proactive fire-protection strategies for communities facing increasing wildfire risk.
Critical Infrastructure
Evaluate potential applications for utilities, transportation systems, facilities, and other infrastructure vulnerable to wildfire.
Firefighters
Provide opportunities for operational evaluation, field feedback, equipment compatibility, and real-world deployment research.
Water & Environment
Evaluate post-deployment runoff, watershed considerations, environmental fate, and potential downstream environmental burdens.
We don't need people to simply believe us.
We want researchers to test it. Firefighters to evaluate it. Water and environmental scientists to study it. Communities to demonstrate it. And evidence to tell us where Green Shield Fire can make the greatest difference.
Researchers
Materials science, fire science, environmental science, water quality, toxicology, and independent testing.
Firefighters
Operational evaluation, field testing, equipment compatibility, deployment, and real-world feedback.
Government
Federal, state, tribal, and municipal partners working on wildfire resilience, public safety, and environmental protection.
Water & Environment
Water districts, watershed organizations, environmental researchers, and experts evaluating post-deployment impacts.
Industry
Utilities, infrastructure operators, manufacturers, insurers, and organizations seeking measurable wildfire risk reduction.