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.  

To keep the focus on the oceans during COP21 negotiations, Parley Talks were held at the UN under the title “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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

Parley hosts a conversation between Captain Paul Watson and American artist David LaChappelle to discuss growing concerns related to pollution from single-use plastics.

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.

There are five seas that make up what is the Ocean – and the life support system of this ancient spaceship that we call the Earth.

Every social revolution throughout history has been initiated by passionate individuals, not by governments, or soulless bureaucracies. And every social revolution has succeeded when enough individuals exercised the virtues of passion, courage and imagination.

Parley was invited to take part in World Energy Day at the United Nations to address and brief world leaders and delegates on the state of the oceans.

Parley Berlin took place during Fashion Week from July 2-4, 2013 to form alliances for The Vortex Project and accelerate the movement to end marine plastic pollution. 

Creators, thinkers and leaders come together to kick-off the movement. The first Parley took place on February 7, 2013, hosted by artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel at his Palazzo Chupi in NY.