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9. Feb. 2025

WANTED: Founding Funders for Sargassum Sinking Innovation

This March, Climate Cleanup with partners like Oceanus International and Climate Foundation sets sail to actually sink carbon in the Caribbean, turning the problem of sargassum seaweed into an innovative climate solution. After four years of feasibility study we now think this is indeed feasible, and now need to find out what the possible positive and negative effects on…

Climate Cleanup·News·Sargassum·Ocean cdr·Seaweed sinking·Founding funders·Field pilot

10. Okt. 2024

Pol Knops’s Paebble: Turning CO2 into Concrete Solutions for Climate Change

Our friend Pol Knops, co-founder of Paebbl, shares insights about his innovative company’s journey. Paebbl, founded three years ago, developed a groundbreaking process that combines CO2 with olivine to create stone powders for cement and concrete production. This technology could potentially store millions of tons of CO2 in cement, significantly reducing global emissions. Pol, who has worked…

Uncategorized·Olivine·Biobased construction·ONCRA·Regenerative agriculture·Sargassum

20. Dez. 2020

“Azolla” Bram working on the Sargassum Cleanup

One of our pioneer members is Bram Geers (33), also known as Azolla Bram. Raised in and around greenhouses with all kinds of cactusses (!) in the Westland in the Netherlands, Bram decided to study

Climate Cleanup·Club·Double Nature Talk·Event·Seaweed·Sargassum·Ocean·Carbon sequestration·Founders

18. Dez. 2020

Our story about Sargassum Cleanup

How to turn a huge problem into a climate solution? On January 13 2021 we presented an update on our Sargassum Cleanup project during our Double Nature Talk at 8 pm CET. Around 40 people attended. In the last decade Sargassum Seaweed has become a plague in the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean and Gulf of…

Climate Cleanup·Double Nature Talk·Event·Sargassum·Seaweed·Ocean·Carbon removal·Ecosystem restoration

2. Sept. 2020

Climate Cleanup Sargassum Team on Saint Martin

Two members of our Sargassum Cleanup Expedition Team, Peter Lindeman and Fons Janssen, have safely arrived on Saint Martin on Augustus 31 2020. For two weeks they’re observing the Sargassum seaweed

Climate Cleanup·Seaweed·Sargassum·Ocean·Field research·Stakeholder engagement

30. Juni 2020

Sargassum Cleanup – from plague to climate solution

Finally, the time was right to tell the world about our Sargassum Cleanup project. Seaweed is potentially a super scalable climate solution with incredible benefits.

Climate Cleanup·Seaweed·Sargassum·Ocean·Carbon sink·Feasibility study