This one’s for early risers and big dreamers, those of you into kelp restoration fans, clothes made of seaweed, imagination, snorkelling and a fire by the beach, if you’re interested in how Indigenous Knowledges and ceremony can connect coastal communities, or how corporates can invest in the ocean 🌅🧶

Sea the Weed is a collaboration of organisations reforesting 70 hectares of once destroyed Phyllospora Comosa ('Crayweed') along Sydney’s coastline. Throughout 2025, friends Arthur Little and Brenden Newton from AIME have been running a monthly program of sunrise, ceremony and seaweed, drawing human attention back to nature and ‘looking sideways’. We recorded this one at Malabar beach, after a beautiful swim with the reforested crayweed.

Find dates and more info on the AIME website here. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. Donate to support the making of this show at buymeacoffee.com/seaweedpeople. Also, listen to my new project, SOIL: Rewilding the Underground made with Freya Mulvey here.

Links to other stuff in this ep:

AIME - mentoring & the Imagi-Nation hub

Operation Crayweed (also listen to episode 2 with Adriana Verges)

Abyss Scuba Diving

Making a Hoodie Podcast with Sea the Weed

The Grey Space podcast with Brenden Newtown

AIME’s Imagine film

The seaweed hoodie (+ the Regenerators website)

PYRATEX innovative textiles Seaweed fabric

Become a shareholder of the ocean (deck)

This episode was recorded and produced on Gadigal & Bidjigal Country. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

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You are going to love this conversation if you dream of spending a week greeting the sun with seaweed songs, having seaweed baths after saunas, if you’re into seaweed tattoos, if you’re a student or a teacher and you wanna go diving, and generally if you’re into the idea of regenerating underwater forests 🤿🛀🏽

Along with the team and communities behind Love Rimurimu, Zoe Studd is doing all of these things. Zoe is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Mountains to Sea Wellington Trust, where she manages both marine and freshwater education programs and citizen science programs, working with schools and communities in Aotearoa New Zealand. We talk about starting kelp restoration projects in schools, regenerating coastlines with science and cultural knowledge, and running a kickass seaweed festival.

Follow the Love Rimurimu project here and on their socials. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. Donate to support the making of this show at buymeacoffee.com/seaweedpeople.

Links to other stuff in this ep:

Seaweeds of Wellington (video ID)

Mountains to Sea Wellington

Experiencing Marine Reserves community program

New Zealand approves first special permit to remove kina barrens

Project Baseline Wellington

Kelp Forest Alliance website (or listen to Episode 11 with Aaron Eger)

Green Gravel Group

Love Rimurimu’s Seaweed Restoration Toolkit

Seaweed Fest 2025

Hot tubs, seaweed soaks & saunas in Ireland

This episode was recorded and produced on Gadigal Country. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode is for you if you’re wondering what the heck is going on across the sea for our friends in the US, if you’re into citizen science and communities coming together to protect kelp, and if you like a good ocean film 🌊🍿

Blue Frontier is a US-based organisation that’s been building solution-oriented citizen engagement for 20 years, to protect oceans, coasts and the human and wild communities that depend on them. We’re joined by Blue Frontier’s David Helvarg and Natasha Benjamin to talk about people-powered conservation, the seaweed rebellion and their new film Sequoias of the Sea, which documents a community of fishermen, tribes and scientists working to restore a kelp habitat devastated by a warming climate.

Find out more about Blue Frontier here and follow the film Sequoias of the Sea here. You can find and contact me @seaweed.people. Donate to support the making of this show at buymeacoffee.com/seaweedpeople.

Links to research, projects and stories touched on in this ep:

Sequoias of the Sea film (US)

Blue Frontier - website

Rising Tide - Blue Frontier’s podcast

Jared Huffman (“Kelp Congressman”)

White Rock film by the Great Southern Reef Foundation (Australia)

The Australian Urchin Taskforce

The Golden Shore: California’s Love Affair with the Sea

Kelp Forest Challenge

The Seaweed Rebellion

This episode was recorded and produced on Gadigal/Wangal Country. I acknowledge and pay respects to First Nations people and their elders past and present as the ongoing custodians of Sea, Land and Sky Country.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.