Historically, wild-collected or cultivated seaweed has been used for one, maybe two end products at a time. Anything left over after the prep and extraction of these products would be thrown out. But this type of thinking is fast becoming a limiting factor in the enablement of the sector to scale. There are so many […]
A newly opened exhibit at the Vitra Design Museum in Germany titled Plastic: Remaking our World features a chair 3-D printed from seaweed provided by Kelp Blue. Design duo Klarenbeek & Dros re-created Peter Ghyczy’s iconic ‘Garden Egg’ entirely from kelp. Even the fabric was dyed using seaweed pigments. This is just one of the […]
Co-founder Caroline Slootweg has been invited speak at Monaco Ocean Week on Ocean Innovators Day on a panel focused on “Regenerative Ocean Farming” on Wedensday March 23rd at 15:20. Regenerative ocean farming can play a huge role in addressing the most pressing issues relating to ocean health, namely fighting climate change, regenerating marine ecosystems, creating […]
Co-founder Caroline Slootweg was invited to join the “High Hopes for Seaweed” panel during the 9th Annual World Ocean Summit organised by the Economist Impact Group. She was joined by Bill Collins, Chairman of Cascadia Seaweed and Dodon Yamin, Managing Director of MARI Oceans Indonesia. The session will be moderated by Martin Koehring, Head of […]
There’s more to marine life than meets the eye. And let Ukarapo be the one to tell you about it! Her ambition is to become the best bio-acoustician in Namibia, she’s well on her way. Click on the link above to hear the discussion between Dave Erasmus of New Agreements and Ukarapo and learn about […]
Co-founder Caroline Slootweg has been invited to join the “High Hopes for Seaweed” panel during the 9th Annual World Ocean Summit organised by the Economist Impact Group. She will be joined by Bill Collins, Chairman of Cascadia Seaweed and Dodon Yamin, Managing Director of MARI Oceans Indonesia. The session will be moderated by Martin Koehring, […]
Meet the Team – Iriya Jona Today we’re talking to Iriya Jona who leads on the environmental monitoring for Kelp Blue Namibia. Iriya grew up in a village in Northern Namibia, hundreds of kilometres from the ocean. How did you know you wanted to study fisheries? I’m a village girl, all the way from the […]
Meet Ferdi Knoester – Kelp Blue’s Marine Engineer When did you get your love for the ocean? I grew up living by the North Sea and it always intrigued me. I love everything to do with water, swimming, kite surfing, sailing, boating, snorkelling, diving – in Dutch they call me a ‘waterrat’. I always felt […]
Meet Valentin Pitiot – Market Development Manager at Kelp Blue (and the World Bank Seaweed Global Demand research paper) Today we spoke with Valentin, one of our amazing team mates at Kelp Blue, to find out what drove him to a career in seaweed and to learn about the World Bank study he completed on […]
We had the honour of speaking at this years Monaco Ocean Week. Click here to listen to our session where we shared the spotlight with 3 other start-ups with ambitious plans: NotPla, Algiknit and Huiberts Bloembollen.