Key Readings
Blue Carbon & Nitrogen
Marine Ecology Press: Use of Sugar Kelp Aquaculture in Long Island Sound and the Bronx River Estuary for Nutrient Extraction (2015)
Current Biology: Blue Growth Potential to Mitigate Climate Change through Seaweed Offsetting (2019)
National Geographic: Seaweed 'Forests' Can Help Fight Climate Change (2019)
Biology Letters: Sequestration of Macroalgal Carbon: the Elephant in the Blue Carbon Room (2018)'
Seafood Source: Good and Bad News for Mussels (2012)
Job Creation
Data for Progress: Seafood, Blue Jobs, and the Green New Deal (2019)
Global Market Insights: Commercial Seaweed Market size to exceed $92 billion by 2025 (2019)
The Nature Conservancy: Catalyzing the Blue Revolution: How Investors Can Turn the Tide on Aquaculture (2019)
World Bank: Seaweed Aquaculture for Food Security, Income Generation and Environmental Health in Tropical Developing Countries (2016)
Polyculture, Not Monoculture
WGBH: Farming Seaweed and Shellfish Can Help Water Quality and Wild Fish Stocks, Report Finds (2019)
Puget Sound Restoration Fund: The Power of Kelp: Investigating Kelp Cultivation as a Strategy for Mitigating Ocean Acidification (2019)
California Sea Grant: Solving Impediments to the Co-culture of Seaweeds and Shellfish (2019)
Building Bridges Between Land and Sea
San Francisco Chronicle: To Fight Climate Change, California Approves Seaweed that Cuts Methane Emissions in Cow Burps (2022)
The Washington Post: An Unusual Snack for Cows, a Powerful Fix for Climate (2020)
Scientific American: Soil and Seaweed: Farming Our Way to a Climate Solution (2018)
Forbes: Blue Ocean Barns Seaweed Supplement Makes Cows Burp Less, Cuts Greenhouse Gas Emissions (2019)
Animal Microbiome: Effects of the Macroalgae Asparagopsis taxiformis on Methane Production and Rumen Microbiome Assemblage (2019)
MIT Technology Review: Seaweed Could Make Cows Burp Less Methane and Cut Their Carbon Hoofprint (2018)
Plastic Alternatives
CellPress Matter: Sustainable Bioplastics Derived from Renewable Natural Resources for Food Packaging (2023)
Business Insider: How Seaweed Could Replace Plastic Bags and Packaging (2022)
CNN: Can Seaweed Help Solve the World's Plastic Crisis? (2022)
National Geographic: Eat Your Food, and the Package Too (2019)
Bioplastics News: Unilever, Just Eat and Notpla Partner To Launch Sauces in Seaweed Sachets (2019)
European Commission: Seaweeds from Sustainable Aquaculture as Feedstock for Biodegradable Bioplastics (2015)