While COP26 was in full swing in Glasgow and winter set in, Seawater Solutions have also been active in Teknaf, Bangladesh – a region heavily impacted by the Rohingya refugee crisis. In 2017 around one million refugees from the Rohingya minority in Myanmar flooded into Teknaf, resulting in a humanitarian crisis. Although the refugees are […]
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By Hannah Sweetnam, Design and Media Coordinator Held on December 5th, World Soil Day raises awareness for the importance of healthy soil with this years campaign: Halt soil salinisation, boost soil productivity. Recommended first by the Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) in 2002 World Soil day was supported by the Global soil partnership, the King
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By Yanik Nyberg, Seawater Solutions Founder & Director After the success of our first ‘Rewilding Weekend’ last week, we decided that we want to organise more planting days… So we invite everyone (those that didn´t have the chance to come around yet and those that want to plant more!!!) to come along and help us
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By Chris Eccles, Seawater Solutions Environmental Coordinator After 8 weeks of hard work building our site we were delighted to invite the local community of Govan and beyond to the Govan Wetlands for our Re-wilding weekend, helping us plant over half a million wetland plant species! We’re so grateful to everyone that made it out,
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By Yanik Nyberg, Seawater Solutions Founder & Director On the 29th of October and on the 5th and 7th of November, Blue Green Glasgow will be having a series of Sessions on Nature-based Solutions! We invite delegates, policy shapers, and people from all over the world to come and experience climate adaptation first hand! Multiple
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By Yanik Nyberg, Seawater Solutions Founder & Director Delegates invited to see wetland-based climate solutions first-hand Glasgow, Scotland. As an estimated 30,000 delegates talk about how to address climate change at COP26, local company Blue Green Glasgow, will be in action putting the finishing touches on Phase-1 of The Govan Wetlands Project that uses a
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By Yanik Nyberg, Seawater Solutions Founder & Director On the 23rd and 24th of this month Blue Green Glasgow will be having a rewilding weekend and everyone is invited along to help plant half a million wetland plants! It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about the project and have a tour around the
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By Yanik Nyberg, Seawater Solutions Founder & Director We are very excited to present Blue Green Glasgow and the Glasgow Wetlands Project! Blue Green Glasgow is a community interest company restoring post-industrial land in Glasgow by building wetlands, or blue-green, ecosystems for climate adaptation, engaging communities, and the creation of sustainable jobs. Ahead of COP26
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By Núria Pérez Viura, Seawater Solutions Chief Marketing Officer World Habitat Day marks the beginning of a month to think about the current situation of our cities and towns and the right for all of us to have a decent shelter. This year the World Habitat Day’s theme is ‘Accelerating Urban Action for a Carbon-free
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By Yanik Nyberg, Seawater Solutions Founder & Director We are thrilled to be selected as one of the eight finalists for the 2021 Global Aquaculture Challenge grand finale co-hosted with The Yield Lab Asia-Pacific and the Animal AgTech Innovation Summit on Thursday October 7. Sign up now to watch the free live webinar on sustainable
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