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This journal is an ongoing log of our collective movement — a record of the people, projects and ideas that inspire our mission and move us forward. To keep up with the latest, check in here, follow our social media channels and subscribe to our weekly newsletter, Wavelengths.
Field Notes – August 2025
This month, we return to the far north of Australia, check in on the Parley Hawaiʻi island-wide cleanup and rappel down a ravine in Chile to intercept plastic waste.
How Wood Waste Is Being Used To Make The Color Black Safer
We speak with Jane Palmer about her company Nature Coatings and its mission to replace fossil fuel-based materials in every industry.
PARLEY X POSITIVE MATERIALS: FUTURE FABRICS 2025
This year at Magazine London, we collaborated with the Portugal-based company on an exhibit exploring the future of color.
FIELD NOTES – May 2025
This month, we join a unique river raft cleanup in Chile, celebrate Earth Day in Sri Lanka and journey to the northern edge of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
Protecting Wāwāmalu
In Hawaiʻi, our teams and volunteers are working to restore coastal vegetation, clear out invasive species and clean up the shoreline at Wāwāmalu. Join them on June 1 to continue the work.
How Colorifix are using DNA code to create natural colours for clothes
Dyeing clothes is a toxic, wasteful process that harms the environment – one team of scientists is changing the future of fabric.
FIELD NOTES – SIAN KA’AN
In this special edition of Field Notes, we travel into the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve to join a unique community cleanup and education event with Parley México and local partners.
FIELD NOTES – FEBRUARY 2025
This month, we travel to a sea turtle nesting beach in Mexico, hang out poolside in Hawaiʻi and explore traditional coconut leaf weaving techniques in Seychelles.
FIELD NOTES – JANUARY 2025
This month, we travel to Argentina, Mexico and Sri Lanka – where our riverboom installation is attracting some unusual visitors.
NUVI: Creating the Future of Textiles that Return To The Earth
We speak to the Frankfurt-based company about designing the future with ancient materials.
Rosemarie Trockel: The Computer Is In The Garage
Rosemarie Trockel supports Parley with a unique print edition exploring the intersections between technology, memory and artistic intervention.
FIELD NOTES – November 2024
This month, we explore how our teams are protecting mangroves, rivers and islands in the north of Australia, the south of Brazil and across the entire Maldives.
Meet the designer using mycelium in fashion and interior design to help us understand that death is a part of life
Maurizio Montalti is the cofounder of SQIM, a company on a mission to harness the power of mushrooms, collaborating with nature to design a fungal future.
Meet the designer making luxury fashion from seafood waste AND mushrooms
We catch up with Uyen Tran, who reflects on her upbringing on the coast of Vietnam and time working in New York, foundations that inspired her to launch TômTex with the aim to design the future.
FIELD NOTES – WORLD OCEANS DAY
From the coastline of Sri Lanka to the mountains of Rio, Parley’s teams and volunteers mobilized around for an unprecedented week of action.