Storytelling is a powerful tool for social change. In a sea of perpetually updated newsfeeds, we create editorial content with the goal to inform, inspire and include ocean advocates of all ages and backgrounds.
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.
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.
SKY HIGH FARM: WHERE FASHION MEETS FOOD IN UPSTATE NEW YORK
Sky High Farm is a non-profit, a regenerative farm, a fashion label and recently, a Parley collaborator.
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.
Redesigning in Sri Lanka
Our team in Sri Lanka recently collaborated with the Academy of Design in Colombo on a new project exploring critical ocean issues and the role young designers can play in creating solutions.
Modern Synthesis is the biotechnology company creating fashion with bacteria
We visited the Modern Synthesis lab in London to get a firsthand look at the products that they’re making using K.rhaeticus bacteria and learn more about their journey into the fashion industry.
How Sway is using seaweed to replace single-use plastic
We speak to Julia Marsh about her journey as a designer making ‘beautiful trash’ to being a CEO revolutionizing toxic food packaging.
The Unseen is revolutionizing the beauty industry using upcycled algae biomass
We speak to material scientist Lauren Bowker about why we need to be able to visualize the world that’s all around us, what alchemy means to her and her new pigment Algae Black.
How sustainable aviation fuel will help humanity fly into the future
We speak to AIR COMPANY founder Greg Constantine about SAF, learning from nature to create new technologies and the mission to end extinction.
This plant produces the strongest fiber in the world – and the fabric of the future
We speak to Hannes Schoenegger about Bananatex’s mission, how fashion can play a role in averting the climate crisis and why optimism is key.
Parley AIR: Innovations driving the Material Revolution
Explore the nature inspired innovations transforming the material world .