GK Seaweed Association
The GK Seaweed Association’s purpose is to engage and unify resources for positive impact for seaweed farmers in Indonesia. This is done through launching projects for innovation and commercialisation of Indonesian grown seaweed and development of Seaweed farming methodologies.
Examples of already launched and active projects:
- Development and commercialisation of a Sea Moss program for Restaurants locally on Bali.
- Development and Commercialisation of Superfood Sea Moss products.
- Development of methods for cleaner and commercial viable dried sea moss.
Examples of initiated projects:
- Seaweed Laboratory/nursery/hatchery for preservation and development of Seaweed species.
- Green House for better dehydration of seaweed,
- Connecting Indonesian Seaweed farming with the global Blue Carbon Credit market,
- Commercialisation of Seaweed Bioplastics
- Development of Nutritional Sea Moss Skin care products
The association is comprised by several organisations whereas some are mentioned below.
Good Karma
Good Karma dedicates 2% of revenue to Impact Seaweed farmers in Indonesia in the most impactful way. 50% of the product revenues Good Karma product sales goes directly to the associated Seaweed farmers and the other 50% helps to finance the administration of GK Seaweed Association. Good Karma conducts market research to find out commercialisation potential and priorities for local seaweed farming. This research is shared with the Association through Good Karmas representatives.
Jonas Freeman
Director Good Karma
Impact entrepreneur and mindfulness coach with 20+ years of experience of conscious business and leadership development.
Oceans 2050 is the leading global program for clean oceans by 2050 adopted by many nations as well as the WWF. Oceans 2050 is founded by Alexandra Custeau and consists of the world’s top scientists, ocean activists and marine biologists. Their seaweed research won the Keelling Curve Prize https://www.globalwarmingmitigationproject.org/kcp.
Watch Oceans 2050’s Video of how Seaweed farming plays the central role on WWF’s website: https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/oceans-2050.
Fritz Neyumayer
CEO and Co-Founder of OCEANS 2050
leading the global effort to quantify seaweed carbon sequestration and coordinating ocean research for the benefit of Global sustainability.
Seven Stones Indonesia
Business growth consulting company and lawyer firm that believe that when you do good as a business, then you do well as a business. Seven Stones specialise in eco-friendly and socially sustainable projects.
Terje Nilsen
Co-owner and Director of Seven Stones Indonesia.
Regenerating marine ecosystems through a collaborative farming model, Huiroregenerativo creates social, environmental and economical positive impact from marine ecosystems and actors that are part of this system.
Sebastian Gatica
CoLab regenerative innovation lab at the Pontifica University in Chile spearhead regenerative farming innovations through conferences and knowledge exchange programs. A regenerative approach allows us to increase the capacity of ecosystems to continually evolve, enhancing diversity, creativity and complexity; therefore, life itself.
Sebastian Gatica
Lembongan Seaweed Authorities
The Lembongan seaweed cooperative is a branch of the local municipality on the famous island of Lembongan, once the single largest plot of Seaweed farming in south east Asia. This organisation feeds the GK Association challenges and insights of seaweed farming in Indonesia. They also are one of the recipients and implementers of the projects initiated by GK Seaweed Association. This cooperative also shares recommendations of how the GK Seaweed association best can create impact for all Indonesia’s Seaweed farmers.
Pak Rama Suwarbawa
Abundant Ocean Ventures
AOV is a draft concept for Development of IMTA systems throughout Indonesia and provides a revolutionary sustainable Investment opportunity for the world contributing to the ECO-system instead of sacrificing it. The initiative is a model concept anchored in the research of Oceans 2050.
Luke Dallafior
is a senior go-to market strategist within Energy and IT, and localization expert. Advising the formation of Indonesia’s first blue and green economy tech park.
Jem Bendell
Jem Bendell is Professor of sustainability best known for originating in 2018 the concept of “deep adaptation” anticipating the consequences of ongoing climate change. Professor of sustainability best known for originating in 2018 the concept of “deep adaptation” anticipating the consequences of ongoing climate change.
Jem is dedicated “to embodying and enabling loving responses to our predicament”. Our “predicament” is societal collapse arising from our climate emergency, global economic and environmental crises, species extinction, soil degradation, extreme weather events, forced migration, historical and systemic planet and people abuse, and much more.
