Tag: Ocean Acidification

Transforming the fashion industry

Earth Logic is an initiative launched by two of the world’s most cited scholars within fashion and sustainability. The initiative serves as an action research plan for the fashion industry to move away from the damaging climate, environmental, and social impacts it creates. Earth Logic is summarised into seven elements of action to rethink fashion […]

European standards for sustainability

CEN, the European Committee for Standardization, and CENELEC, the European Electrotechnical Committee for Standardization, have teamed up to create European standards for the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) divided into three key categories: economic, environmental, and societal sustainability. CEN and CENELEC’s new standards provide mutual and clear rules for behaviour, facilitating the sharing of best […]

Data for sustainable ocean management

HUB Ocean unlocks the power of data, technology, and collaboration to create more sustainable blue food, renewable energy, green transportation, and science-based ocean management. HUB Ocean is able to drive this transformation through its gathering and catalysing of troves of data concerning our oceans. This platform is called the Ocean Data Platform. It is a global, […]

Sportswear in the planetary boundaries

Houdini is a sportswear and outdoor clothing brand grounded in sustainability. In 2018, they became the first company in the world to release a sustainability report based on the planetary boundaries model. For Houdini, using this holistic framework enables them to evaluate and understand their business while prioritising what areas they need to work on […]

Transforming the convenience industry

PBX is a living lab and concrete result of the transformation that is necessary to create a convenience store that is both profitable and sustainable. The doors to this experimental kiosk opened in the Autumn of 2021 after almost two years of collaboration between Prosperous Planet and Reitan Convenience Sweden. The ambition is to develop […]

Sustainable packaging from seaweed

Notpla is an up-and-coming company working to scale sustainable, biodegradable packaging material made from seaweed and other plants. The team is a combination of designers, chemists, engineers, and entrepreneurs, and their work offers an alternative to single-use plastics. As WWF’s Cost of Plastic report estimates that the lifetime cost of plastic is 10x the market cost, […]

Regenerative aquaculture

Kelp Blue is a new company working towards practical solutions to ocean acidification, showing there are lucrative business opportunities that can be achieved through addressing this issue. Leading to transformative benefits across markets, Kelp Blue plants kelp forests around the globe that sequester CO2 from the ocean while boosting the health of ecosystems. Kelp harvests […]

International Ocean Acidification Initiative

“The Ocean Foundation’s International Ocean Acidification Initiative builds the capacity of scientists, policymakers, and communities to monitor, understand, and respond to OA both locally and collaboratively on a global scale. We do this by creating practical tools and resources that are designed to work all around the world.” https://oceanfdn.org/initiatives/ocean-acidification/

Combatting ocean acidification

“OA Alliance members are leading discussions across climate and ocean platforms, ensuring that commitments, policies and communications accurately reflect their interdependence.” https://www.oaalliance.org