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Safe Seaweed Coalition: 2021 Lookback & 2022 Look Forward
As the Safe Seaweed Coalition enters its second year of existence, our team wishes to look back at the substantial achievements of 2021 and the exciting agenda for seaweed in this coming year. In view of our worldwide geographic dispersion, we will organize two...
Our members from Sea Forest are looking for an experienced COO to join their fast growing team
Our members from Sea Forest in Tasmania are well positioned to become a leading player in the fast developing Asparagopsis market! Following the rapid growth in their business (see more in this brief video), they are looking for an experienced senior operations...
The Safe Seaweed Coalition awards €700,000 in first Call for Proposals
After a highly competitive evaluation process by an advisory board of seaweed industry experts, the Safe Seaweed Coalition Steering Committee announced the results of its first call for proposals. Sixteen projects were selected for funding, with a total value of about...
COP26: positioning seaweed as a powerful ocean-based climate solution
COP26 brought the seaweed family together to position seaweed as a multifaceted ocean-based solution to tackle Climate Change. In the Blue Food session organized by our UNGC partners, seaweed –presented as a powerful tool for bridging nutrition needs with climate...
Safe Seaweed by Design is launching a survey on safety hazards in the seaweed sector
Our partners from Safe Seaweed by Design, a project led by the Wageningen University, are launching a study to assess the most important occupational, environmental and food safety hazards in the seaweed sector. We strongly support this initiative that falls fully...
The Safe Seaweed Coalition Roundtables are opening next week!
The Safe Seaweed Coalition Roundtables are opening next week, April 13th 2PM (GMT+1), with a discussion on Seaweed in Africa! In the perspective of creating a space for collaboration between seaweed stakeholders in Africa, our members will identify challenges and...
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Merger Should Strengthen Europe's Seaweed Sector
J Rettenmaier and Söhne (JRS), a German fibre and hydrocolloid specialist, has acquired Algaia, the French producer of seaweed-based ingreients...
Source : The Fish Site
Kelp Farming May Help Clean Polluted Waterways and Fight Climate Change
Though too toxic to eat, the seaweed in Newtown Creek, Gowanus Bay and the East River could suck up carbon and pollutants, bolstering marine ecosystems...
Source : The City
A Story of Hope - Recovery of Sussex Underwater Forests
In Sussex, just a few hundred metres from busy coastal towns like Shoreham-by Sea, Worthing and Bognor Regis, a story of hope is emerging, as historic kelp forests lost for decades are beginning to flourish...
Source : Sussex Wildlife Trust
MARI Oceans Launches New Seaweed Farming Site in Takalar, Indonesia
The seaweed farming social enterprise has established a new site in South Sulawesi and onboarded a record 33 farmers...
Source : The Fish Site
Seaweed Biomaterials Startup Secures $6 Million
Loliware, a seaweed-based biomaterials startup, recently secured $6 million in pre-series A funding...
Source : The Fish Site
Glowing Seaweed in Wakayama Originated in Hawaiian Waters
Seaweed that glows mysteriously when it is illuminated has become a popular must-see attraction among divers off the coast here...
Source : The Asahi Shimbun
Podcast: Seaweed as a 'Wonderful' Powerhouse for Skin
The marine biologist and CEO of Weed & Wonderful, Craig Rose, discusses the company’s venture into the world of seaweed which he describes as a largely underutilised nutrient powerhouse that is abundantly available around the UK.
Source : NutraIngredients
Seaweed Is Having Its Moment in the Sun
Seaweed is being reimagined as a plastic substitute, even as cattle feed. But can it thrive in a warming world?...
Source : New York Times
We Don’t Know If Seaweed Can Save the World – But It Can Certainly Help
Seaweed aquaculture is increasingly being seen as a climate panacea, but despite its myriad of uses it may not live up to our climate remediation expectations – Professor Catriona Macleod explains why...
Source : The Fish Site
The Seaweed Revolution Book Launch at Natural History Museum, London / April, 27th
We are delighted to invite our members to the official UK book launch of ‘The Seaweed Revolution’, written by our co-founder Vincent Doumeizel, Senior Advisor to the United Nations Global Compact and Food Programme Director at Lloyd’s
Source : SSC