Media Archives
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2023
A Cry for Kelp | Bren Smith from GreenWave
Seaweed News AU | Kelp Farming Lessons to Kickstart an Industry
Tastemade | Counter Space: S2 Ep7 "Vitamin Sea"
BBC Earth | Are Underwater Farms the Future of Food?
Native News Online | Replenishing What Has Been Stolen
EDFish | EDF’s Tour of GreenWave Highlights Aquaculture’s Potential
Phyconomy | Why I think farmed seaweed is becoming a viable business on the US East Coast
UConn Extension News | Seaweed growers urged to pursue markets in plant-based foods
CT Insider | Blue technology companies are changing the way CT residents work and live near the ocean
The Fish Site | The App Where Seaweed Supply Meets Demand
2022
The Fish Site | Microbes on Farmed Kelp Aren’t a Food Safety Risk, Say Researchers
Popular Science | How Kelp Farming is Helping Revive the Economy and Ecology of a Long Island Bay
GEO Magazine | In the United States, an Underwater Farm is Developing a Model of Sustainable Agriculture
Vegetarian Times | Sustainable Seaweed Farming Could Be a Key to Climate-Friendly Cuisine
RNZ | Seaweed Could be NZ's Next Big Industry, Advocates Say
Fish Site | The Case for Seaweed Subsidies
Sierra Club | The East Coast’s First Indigenous Kelp Farm Readies for Harvest
PEW | Seaweed Farming Has Vast Potential (But Good Luck Getting a Permit)
Phyconomy | New Courses for Ocean Farmers in the US and UK
Hartford Courant | In the Mood for Seaweed? These Connecticut Farmers and Scientists are Cultivating Kelp for the Table, the Environment and the Economy
Global Sisters Report | Shinnecock Women, Allied with Catholic Sisters, Farm Kelp to Restore Bay Waters
Aquaculture North America | GreenWave Launches Regenerative Ocean Farming Hub
GreenBiz | Kelp Boom Hinges on Supply Chain and Carbon Market Investments
Freethink | DIY Regenerative Ocean Farms: The Future of Food and Fuel?
State of the Planet | Sea Vegetables Are the Future of Farming
Earth.Org | 7 Solutions to Biodiversity Loss
New Haven Independent | Fair Haven Flourishes At Quinnipiac Riverfest
Arts Council of Greater New Haven | Sun-Soaked Riverfest Returns To Fair Haven
2021
PBS NewsHour | Brief but Spectacular: Bren Smith
The Fish Site | GreenWave inspires $5 Million Kelp Farming Pilot in NZ
The Economist | Why New England is Going Wild for Wet Weeds
Smithsonian Magazine | Facing Warming Waters, Fishermen Are Taking Up Ocean Farming
Modern Farmer | The Future of Ocean Farming
Vogue | Reclaiming Native Knowledges Through Kelp Farming in Cordova, Alaska
Agritecture | 8 of the World’s Most Unique Farming Systems
Atlas of the Future | GreenWave: Regenerative Ocean Farming
The Westerly Sun | Front Porch Chatter: April 12, 2021
So You Want to Be a Marine Biologist | Tending Your Garden: About OverFishing, Ocean Pollution, And What You Can Do (#50)
BBC Radio 4 | 39 Ways to Save a Planet: Ocean Farming
The Inertia | Unpacking the Documentary ‘Seaspiracy’: What Do We Believe About Ocean Conservation?
Bloomberg Baystate Business Radio | Kelp Burgers
NOAA Science Seminar | Regenerative Ocean Farming: The Least Deadliest Catch
Missoula Current | Sustainable Missoula: Inspiring People and Efforts that Can Scale
University of Washington Currents | Regenerative Ocean Farming: How Can Polycultures Help Our Coasts
East End Beacon | Climate Local Now: Consider the Oyster & Save What’s Left
Daily Nutmeg | Sea Fare
TreeTV/Need 2 Know | Bren Smith on Kelp, The Update
GreenBiz | Aquaculture Becomes a Net Positive
GreenBiz | Lessons from 3 Emerging Bio-based Material Technologies
Five Media | The Stunning Potential of Seaweed
How to Save a Planet | Kelp Farming, for the Climate, Part 1
How to Save a Planet | Kelp Farming, for the Climate, Part 2
Spirit of Change | Project Drawdown: 100 Climate Solutions in Real Time
Farm Weekly | Vegetables Courtesy of the Indian Ocean
KPFA Radio | The Visionary Activist Show – Regenerative Ocean Farming
New York Times | Why Isn't Kelp Catching On?
Safina | Better for the People, Better for the Planet: Getting by with a Little Kelp
Grist | He’s Helping Fishermen Adapt to Climate Change and an Economic Crisis — by Becoming Kelp Farmers
So You Want to Be a Marine Biologist | 46. Bren Smith: High Seas, Aquaculture, 3D Farming, and How to Eat like a Fish
Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Salty Cinema Live: Sustainable Seafood
Patch | Stonington Woman Named 2021 Connecticut Outstanding Young Farmer
The Fish Site | Federal Grant Could Help to Quadruple U.S. Seaweed Aquaculture Volumes
2020
Heated by Medium | The Kind of Ocean Farming That Will Help Combat the Climate Crisis
Whalebone Magazine | Fisherman Bren Smith Interviews Dock to Dish Founder Sean Barrett
GreenBiz | Is 'Regenerative Ocean Farming' on the Blue Horizon?
Seattle Met Magazine | Will Northwest Seaweed Farming Finally Take Off?
Seafood Source | Eat More Kelp Campaign Launched by Climate Change Activists in North America
The Signal | Project Drawdown and an Opportunity for a Better Planet
The Fish Site | Why Diversification is Vital for North America’s Ocean Farmers
Canadian Geographic | Q&A: The Sustainability of Regenerative Ocean Farming
Bezinga | "In Good Taste" Documentary Questions the Future of Food for United Nations World Food Day
Musings Magazine Regenerative Ocean Farming with GreenWave
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Deadliest Catch: Bren Smith's Journey from Knife Fights to Kelp Farming
The Ocean Race | Blue Tech takes leading role at The Ocean Race Summits Newport
New Haven Independent | A&I Kelps Itself To Bagels Of The Future
Mashable | Like UnderWater Rainforests, Vertical Farms Grow Crops Sustainably and Rebuild Ecosystems
Stuff | Moves for NZ's first seaweed farms begin in Hauraki Gulf
GreenBiz | Anthology ‘All We Can Save’ Passes the Mic to Female Climate Leaders
Humboldt State Now | Introducing HSU’s New Seaweed Farm, a First for California
TIME | The Ocean Farmers Trying to Save the World With Seaweed
RollingStone | New Podcast ‘How to Save a Planet’ Aims to Solve the Climate Crisis
CBC News | ‘Regenerative Ocean Farming’ Could Be Coming to a Coast Near You
FoodPrint | Kelp Is Not the New Kale; It’s a Crop With Bigger Challenges, and Possibilities
The Day | Quarantine Order in Rhode Island Leads to Detour of Kelp Crop into Stonington
Lancaster Farming | Kelp Is the New Kale: A Different Kind of Farming Grows Under Water
Forbes | New Internship Program Fosters Next Generation Of Underwater Farmers
HuffPost | 5 Healthy Ingredients You Should Be Eating In 2020
2019
Agriculture Monthly | Farming Kelp and Shellfish is a Way to Save the Seas
Watershed Sentinel | Ocean Farming Could Help Feed the Future
27 East | Kelp, Good For You And The Environment
World Economic Forum | Pioneers for Our Planet: the People Fighting to Bring Nature Back
Hartford Courant | A New Era in Farming: Connecticut’s Agricultural Landscape Continues to Evolve
MBG |Fun Fact: Beyond Being Delicious, Seaweed Can Help Us Fight Climate Change)
Strategy + Business | Our Planet: Our Business, and Our Conversations
Forbes | Culture Change for Climate Change
Forbes | What Seaweed Can Teach Us About Building a Better Economy
Food Tank | GreenWave Works to Restore Oceans all over the Globe while Creating Jobs and a Market for Seaweed
Popular Science | Meet the ‘Oyster Wench’ — a Single Mom Fighting Pollution with the Power of Clams and Kelp
Geographical | Floating Deep Farms to Feed a Growing Population
2018
The Daily Nutmeg | Kelp Is on the Way
Scientific American | Soil and Seaweed: Farming Our Way to a Climate Solution
CleanTechnica |Interview with Bren Smith, The Fisherman Shaping the Future
The Newtown Bee | Newtown Professor Pioneering Breakthroughs in Seaweed Science
Real Small Towns | Overcoming the Urban-Rural Chasm, for Everybody’s Sake
60 Minutes | Seaweed Farming and its Surprising Benefits
The Day | Three Farmers Will Bring in Kelp Harvest from Fisher’s Island Sound this Spring
Westfair Online | Kelp Harvesting on the Upswing in Connecticut’s Waters
Connecticut Magazine | Seaweed May Be the Wave of the Future
2017
Hartford Courant | Connecticut Kelp Farming Set To Expand, But Permit Hassles Causing Delays
Yale Environment 360 | Can We Save the Oceans By Farming Them?
The Day | Kelp Farmer Seeking to Expand to Stonington Harbor
CBS New York | Stories From Main Street: Connecticut Ocean Farmer Hopes To Make Kelp The New Kale
The Conversation AU | How Farming Giant Seaweed Can Feed Fish and Fix the Climate
Times Live | Are Underwater Farms the Future of Food Productions?
Long Island Pulse | How the Long Island Sound is Becoming Home to a Healthier Seafood
The Nation | This Former Fisherman Is Now Farming the Most Sustainable Food on Earth—Underwater
Nation Swell | The Sustainable ‘Farm of the Future’ Is Changing How Food Is Grown
Hartford Courant |Connecticut’s ‘Vertical Ocean Farmer’ Wants to Change World’s Food Supply System
Medium | The Seas Will Save Us: How an Army of Ocean Farmers are Starting an Economic Revolution
TakePart | He Made Kelp the New Kale, but This Seaweed Farmer Isn’t Done Yet
Financial Times |GreenWave
Macleans |A Kelp Agricultural Revolution
Medium | Dear Mark Zuckerberg: Meet a Game-Changer in Every State
MartketWatch | These 2 Projects are Exploring the Potential of Underwater Farming
2016
Popular Science | Could Underwater Farming Feed the World?
Nexus Media | The Promise of 3D Farming
Irish Times | Seaweed: the next big step for Irish food and farming?
Global Daily | Vertical Ocean Farming Creates Healthy Ecosystems
CUESA | Bioneering a Sustainable Sea Change with Ocean Farmer Bren Smith
Patagonia | The Cleanest Line: GreenWave
The Atlantic | Kelp Is the New Kale
Gastropod | Seaweed Special
Outside Magazine | Kelp is the Ocean’s Most Underutilized Power Ingredient
Sustainable Bren’s | With 3D Ocean Farming, We can Eat Sustainably While Restoring Our Oceans
FINE | Sea to Campus: Connecticut Colleges Explore Culinary Uses for Kelp
NBC | Red Tape Slows Bloom of Seaweed Farming’s Green Revolution
Straits Times | ‘Ocean Farmer’ helps tackle climate change
L’Orient Le Jour | A former commercial fisherman is shifting paradigms one ocean farm at a time
Huffington Post | How Underwater 3D Farms Could Revolutionize Food Production
Quartz | Ocean farmers are using technology to start an economic revolution and save humanity
Los Angeles Times | Ocean farming goes in a new direction
Food&Wine | Is Vertical Farming the Key to Sustainable Seafood
WNYC | Seaweed, Kelp, and an Ocean of Culinary Possibilities
2015
Martketplace | A fisherman’s plan to feed the world and reduce climate change
Gizmodo | The Underwater Farms That Could Help Stop the Death of Our Oceans
Grub Street | Experts Are Working to Make Seaweed the Next Kale
The New Yorker | A New Leaf
The Guardian | GreenWave ocean farming model scoops $100,000 sustainability prize
The New York Times | As Lobsters Dwindle in Long Island Sound, Oysters Thrive
Slow Food USA | The Next Kale
Food Republic | Bren Smith's Vertical Ocean Pasture, The Wave Of Future Farming
2014
Riverhead News Review | Kelp, a Slippery Seaweed, Could Be Major Moneymaker
Edible Long Island | KELP: Eat Like a Fish
Bon Appetit | Seaweed Is the New Hip Health Food, Loved by Chefs
2013
Bon Appetit | Bren Smith Is Changing the Way Seaweed Is Grown—and Eaten
Mashable | Help Restore the Sea With a 3D Ocean Farm on Kickstarter
Yale News | Student Interns Get Hooked on Sustainable Fishing
New Haven Register | Seaweed May Offer Lucrative Future for Connecticut Aquaculture
The New Yorker | Seaweed on the rocks
CT Mirror | Kelp: It's What's for Dinner
Yale Environment 360 | How Mussel Farming Could Help to Clean Fouled Waters
Ocean Wise | Seaweed: The most sustainable seafood on the planet
The Wall Street Journal | Life Down on the Kelp Farm