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More Companies with Large Water Footprints Are Taking Action; But Gaps Remain
Adequate water-stewardship goals must address the full range of water issues across the value chain — including amount of water used, impacts on water quality, ecosystem health and communities’ access to safe water. ... View More
This Aquatic Robot Is Making a Meal Out of Marine Waste
RanMarine has created the world’s first autonomous marine robot. Utilizing drone technology, it can collect up to 500 kg of plastic waste and destructive biomass each day, harmoniously clearing up and monitoring our waters. ... View More
Like ‘Majik’: This Kenyan Startup Is Producing Clean Drinking Water from Thin Air
Majik Water has found an ingenious way to capture the water from the atmosphere, even in arid regions — harnessing a limitless resource and providing a sustainable solution for thousands of Kenyans, with a goal of reaching 100M people by 2030. ... View More
P&G Unveils New Strategy to Help Address Global Water Crisis
The company’s expanded commitment includes a first-of-its-kind goal to restore more water than is consumed during use of P&G products in two high-water-stressed metropolitan areas. ... View More
Ørsted Trials Turning Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations Into Safe Havens For Corals
The first-of-its-kind ReCoral by Ørsted project aims to implement a non-invasive approach for restoring the health of coral reef ecosystems by growing healthy coral colonies on the foundations of offshore wind turbines. ... View More
The Humble Crab Shell Could Upend a Variety of Polluting Industries — Starting with Wastewater
Washington-based startup Tidal Vision upcycles discarded crab shells to produce chitosan — a positively charged biopolymer with myriad applications in sustainable water treatment, textile production, agriculture and more. ... View More
Curbing Ocean Plastic Waste: Is Your Brand Missing the Boat?
Reducing plastic waste is a winning issue for consumers. With so many examples of early success and ROI, there’s no better time to join the movement by committing to reduce plastic pollution and limiting the need for virgin plastic. ... View More
IPCC to Global Business and Government Leaders: The Jig Is Up
The latest IPCC report provides further detail about just how far we’re careening off the proverbial rails and our ever-narrowing window for getting back on a habitable track. But it also provides deeper insight into a potential path forward — if... View More
Bumble Bee, Ocean Conservancy Join Forces to Rid the World’s Oceans of Ghost Gear
The seafood giant and the global nonprofit have expanded their ongoing partnership to not only clean hazardous fishing nets out of waterways, but to try and stop fishers — large and small — from discarding gear in harmful ways. ... View More
How Climate Risk Can Inform Climate Solutions
The fast and yet slow pace of climate change, along with the geographically dispersed nature of the impacts, can make a collective risk accounting seem overwhelming. Yet there is an interplay between climate risk and certain mitigation measures; we n... View More
After Disaster in Texas, Community and Industry Come Together to Transform Water Infrastructure
Disasters such as the aftermath of the February 2021 ice storm that left millions of Texans without running water lay bare the urgent need for updated utility infrastructure across the US. This would involve repairing and replacing hundreds of thousa... View More
Water May Be Life, But It Is Never a Given: Learnings from the Navajo Nation
It’s 2022, and 1 in 3 homes on the Navajo Nation Reservation still do not have a tap or toilet. In 2021, human rights nonprofit DigDeep collaborated with Kohler to launch the Water Is Life microgrant program — which is working to make safe water ... View More
Water and Climate: The Business Imperative to Change Behavior
While it can feel overwhelming to see how much our actions impact the Earth, we still have a small window of opportunity. And by changing how we consume, store and distribute water, the water sector alone could eliminate 10% of global GHG emissions. ... View More
Day 3-B3A2: A New Framework for Socially Responsible Ocean-Bound Plastic Supply Chains
Ocean-bound plastic supply chains often rely on a workforce that is at risk for social and economic exploitation and exposed to degraded environmental conditions. Additional care is needed to ensure social responsibility throughout that type of suppl... View More
OPLN: Experiential Learning for the Win (or, How to Really Turn the Tide on Global Plastic Pollution)
2019’s Ocean Plastics Leadership Summit transformed not only its host organization and its 165 participants — it catalyzed action around plastic waste at an unprecedented scale. We caught up with Ocean Plastic Leadership Network founder Dave Ford... View More
Can the Food Sector Survive the Water Crisis?
New data from the IPCC shows that more frequent, intense droughts could squeeze the food sector with too little water. This year, we are getting a glimpse of what that might look like. ... View More
Doconomy, Parley Partner to Solve Interconnected Climate, Plastic Crises
The two will work together to quantify the unseen environmental costs of consumption decisions in ways that empower individuals, businesses and governments to align their spending with climate action and solutions — focusing initially on carbon, wa... View More
Closed-Loop Tech Aims to Change Textile Industry’s Water Use from ‘Waste2Fresh’
With textile manufacturing responsible for 20% of global water pollution, Waste2Fresh's closed-loop water-recycling system aim to revolutionize the industry’s exploitative methods for dyeing and manufacturing our clothes. ... View More
Bumble Bee Plants ‘SeaTrees’ to Kick Off Ocean-Regeneration Initiative
Solving the oceans’ critical challenges will require more brands to directly invest in — and get involved with — restoration, regeneration and rehabilitation efforts. Bumble Bee’s partnership with SeaTrees provides a replicable model for what... View More
Doconomy Now Shows Users Water-Impact Data for Every Purchase
The first-of-its-kind direct measure of our everyday consumption’s water impacts — thanks to data from S&P Global Trucost — aims to create a greater consumer understanding of the importance of water locally, nationally and globally. ... View More
