Show Notes
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. Subscribe for updates or support the podcast at quietnightin.substack.com. 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:
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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