Founder Highlight Series: ULUU
For this month’s Founders Series, we have the privilege of delving into the visionary mind of Dr. Julia Reisser, the brilliant founder of ULUU, an innovative company dedicated to sustainable material development. Dr.Reisser shares her journey from being an Oceanographer studying plastic pollution to founding ULUU. She emphasizes the need for alternatives to fossil plastics and introduces ULUU's groundbreaking approach using seaweed-based polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs).
Founders Series - OneFishTwoFish
For this Founders Series, we are excited to interview the founder of OneFishTwoFish, Dr. Chris Gillies! OneFishTwoFish is part of Seafood Positive, an initiative to restore ocean habitat and fish stocks. It effectively builds a circular economy model for fisheries through a subscription-based model.
Founders Highlight Series: Carbonz
Carbonz is a developer and seller of carbon and biodiversity credits founded on the basis that carbon credits generally lack transparency, efficacy, and accessibility. Carbonz allows buyers to feel confident with their purchases through a transparent and auditable process, and direct impact to help support biodiversity and native reforestation.
Founders Highlight Series: Dolphin Research Institute
We are excited to interview the Executive Director of the Dolphin Research Institute (DRI), Jeff Weir! DRI was founded in 1991 by a passionate group of community members and marine scientists who were concerned about the implications of human disturbance on local dolphin populations. It has grown into a leading not-for-profit conservation and research organisation that actively engages the community in environmental sustainability.
Founders Highlight Series - Nick Stamatiou
For this month’s Founders Series, we interviewed Nick Stamatiou, Founder of Whole Green Foods. Whole. has created a proprietary technology that enables cost-effective and large-scale production of plant-based products, using produce that would otherwise be wasted, while maintaining the nutritional value of the original ingredients.
Fellow Spotlight: Joel Chambers
This Fellow Spotlight is on farmer and wine-maker, Joel Chambers! We discuss regenerative agriculture and the growing movement of sustainable farming practices with climate change pressures.
Fellowship Spotlight: Stuart Brown
For this Fellowship Spotlight, we interviewed Stuart Brown who recently completed his Fellowship at Subak Australia. Stuart generated a high spatial resolution dataset of sea surface temperatures that characterises trajectories of warming for the world’s coral reefs. The dataset also shows the associated changes in bleaching risk over the time range of 1985 to 2100 using a range of climate models and future scenarios.
Amplifying Indigenous Voices
Mibu Fischer is a marine scientist with CSIROs Environment sitting in the Sustainable Marine Futures Program. The majority of her work focuses on exploring inclusion and respect for Indigenous Science and Knowledge within academia. She has collaborated with Indigenous and Traditional People internationally to discuss the importance of the inclusion of worldviews to address many global challenges such as climate change. And worked to include Indigenous voices in national reporting frameworks like the Australian State of the Environment Report.
Founders Highlight Series: Carbon Farming Foundation
For this month’s Founders Series, we interviewed the co-founder and CEO of the Carbon Farming Foundation (CFF), Lachy Ritchie. The CFF exists to make it as easy as possible for farming businesses to tap into the carbon farming opportunity and accelerate towards carbon neutrality. This enables farmers to enter the carbon market and promote more sustainable production practices.
The risks of not giving nature a seat at the table
This blog post is written by Subak’s Accelerator Cohort 1 Member AimHi Earth. AimHi Earth are guided by their mission to accelerate nature-centric decision-making and our vision of a world where nature has a seat at every boardroom, political and kitchen table.