To address the escalating food, water, and energy crises, I left my Civil Servant position at NASA to found UpCycle Systems (UCS). I know this will be risky, but I feel an obligation to try to make a difference. I have been so privileged to work with amazing people at such outstanding institutions: undergrad at UCSC, grad at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, and positions at the University of Copenhagen, University of Paris at Orsay, Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine at Yale Medical School, Argonne National Lab, NASA Ames Research Center, University of California Santa Cruz, Tokyo University Agriculture and Technology, and the California Academy of Science. My career has included research in marine science, microbiology and cell biology, medicine, nanotechnology, engineering, and environmental sciences and now I must help to address the escalating food, water, and energy crisis. From 2010-2013, I led the NASA/CEC project "OMEGA" (Offshore Membrane Enclosures for Growing Algae)--a system for growing microalgae on wastewater in floating photobioreactors to produce biofuels. While the system captures carbon and prepares future generations for sea-level rise, the project concluded that it would only be possible to produce biofuels as part of an integrated system that included aquaculture for food, wastewater treatment and reuse, and solar for electricity and heat. OMEGA needed to be an integrated food, water, and energy system. From 2013-2018, I focused on the OMEGA Global initiative (OGI) to costal communities. In 2018, I pivoted from the offshore system to an onshore design that I'm calling UpCycle Systems. I'm excited about the potential of UpCycle Systems and you will be too when you find out more about it.