This Floating Parliament Is Built From the Ocean’s Own Trash
Most architects look at ocean plastic and see a crisis. Yufeng Tu saw a building material. Ocean Vortex, the speculative floating parliament he conceived, does…
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Meet the Electronic Dolphin, the Mini Robot That Cleans Oil Spills With Urchin-inspired Filters
A sneaker-sized robot developed at RMIT University in Australia is making a compelling case for rethinking how humanity responds to one of the ocean’s most…
The Shield ‘Ocean Garbage Collector’ helps sustainably take care of our sea waste problem
More than half of the world’s population lives near a coast… and while that fact is pretty interesting on its own, it also leads me…
These luxurious floating pods are an eco-friendly + smart residence on the ocean
I think you can now officially say goodbye to yachts, and sea-facing homes as Ocean Builders is brewing up something better than both of them…
This fleet of autonomous ‘saildrones’ use solar and wind power to collect data during a hurricane!
Saildrone, a maritime research company and “world leader in oceangoing autonomous surface vehicles,” has launched a fleet of saildrones to collect first-of-its-kind hurricane data…
This ergonomic washing machine design helps save our oceans by filtering out microplastics!
Martina Mancini’s Ocean washing system is as sustainable as it is ergonomic, with special filters that recycle out microplastics and hidden adaptive features for intuitive…
This bamboo beach-shack is designed to look like a massive goldfish!
I’m fully aware of how bad my pun game is right now, but Thilina Liyanage’s Beach bar looks absolutely ‘fin’credible! Designed to resemble a scaled-up…
The world’s first item-tracker made from recycled ocean-plastic
The choice of material for Chipolo’s latest Ocean Series trackers is quite poetic if you ask me. The trackers help you keep track of your…
This migrating collection of pods plans to clean the floating islands of plastic in our oceans
While the world handles the COVID-19 crisis, we haven’t forgotten the climate crisis. Designers Lucy Zakharova and Ted Lu have proposed a plan to tackle…
Made using 3000 Nespresso pods, this installation transforms ocean waste into art
The Superegg Installation is a comment on our capitalist tendencies and its effect on nature. By combining consumerism and creation into one hard-hitting sculpture, the…
Ocean System Targeting Plastic Pollution
Oclean is an offshore litter cleaner designed to help collect ocean pollution like plastic particles and other floating types of waste. It uses modern tech…
Long-Term Coast Guard
Apparently, you can literally see garbage in the oceans from space. Currents carry them and they cluster at certain points and have begun forming large…