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Parley x Rozalia 2015: A research and cleanup expedition in the Gulf of Maine
In summer 2015, Parley x Rozalia Protect for a Clean Ocean completed a sailing research and cleanup expedition focused on remote and hard-to-reach shorelines in the Gulf of Maine.
UN X PARLEY: OCEANS. CLIMATE. LIFE.
A UN x Parley launch event under the title “Oceans. Climate. Life.” was held at the United Nations in New York to bring the oceans to the forefront of the climate change conversation. Notable guests from the worlds of fashion, art, entertainment, science and environmentalism came together for a series of Parley Talks about the biggest ocean threats and most promising solutions...
OCEAN PLASTIC: SEEING OPPORTUNITY IN WASTE
In the i-D documentary, The Plastic Age, director Jake Sumner brings key Parley initiatives into the spotlight. The film explains the enormous and mounting problem of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans alongside Parley efforts to turn the problem into tangible progress towards a solution...
IN THE SPAN OF A LIFETIME
Sylvia Earle urges us to consider the impacts of plastic pollution, overfishing and climate change that she has witnessed in the span of just 50 years.
THE PLASTIC AGE
An I-D documentary on ocean plastic and Parley collaboration “RAW For The Oceans” with Pharrell Williams, Bionic Yarn and G-star RAW. Millions of tons of plastic land in the world's oceans every year. At present, plastic outweighs plankton in an alarming ratio. Humankind has progressed through the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, only to land in an era where society is increasingly defined by the pollutants we produce: The Plastic Age...
OPERATION ICEFISH
A 110-day Sea Shepherd chase of the world’s most notorious poaching vessel ended in a dramatic and deliberate scuttling in a remote area near the equator. The infamous Patagonian toothfish poaching vessel, the Thunder, sank in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Sao Tome, under what can best be described as “incredibly strange” and suspicious circumstances.
RAW FOR THE OCEANS ANNOUNCEMENT
February 8th was a magical night for the oceans. 500 guests from fashion to media, art, and music, entered the majestic Milstein Hall of Ocean Life at the American Museum of Natural History in New York to the sound of whale songs. Bathed in blue light beneath the life-size 94-foot blue whale, the largest animal on the planet, Parley presented The Vortex Project’s first collaboration: “RAW for the Oceans”, a long-term collaboration between G-Star RAW x Bionic Yarn, curated by Pharrell Williams.