Interactive map — The Blue Economy

🌊 Blue Economy 📚 Education & Transmission

Aristoï Academia

Aristoï Academia is an independent organisation dedicated to the concrete application of the Blue Economy. My personal involvement runs…

Boulevard du Mont Boron

Axel Rihs

CEO of BLUE EDUCATION

Chemin de la Fandouze

🌊 Blue Economy

Back to the Roots

Company founded in Berkeley by Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez around home kits for growing oyster mushrooms on coffee grounds collected…

Oakland, Californie, États-Unis

BioMonde

Producer of sterile Lucilia sericata larvae used in maggot therapy to debride chronic wounds, operated by ZooBiotic Ltd under the BioMonde…

Bridgend, Royaume-Uni

📖 Gunter's Fables 📚 Education & Transmission

Endorsed

Blue Education

Publishing house of the Blue Economy

Blue Education

Blue Universe Africa

BLUE UNIVERSE - AFRICA est une Entreprise sociale solidaire axé sur l'objectif de développement durable 4 des Nations Unies qu'est…

Lomé, Togo

📖 Gunter's Fables ♻️ Circular Economy 🌾 Agriculture

Bright Moon Seaweed Group

Qingdao group founded in 1968, specialising in alginate extraction from brown seaweed, with reported output of 16,000 tonnes a year, around…

Qingdao, Chine

Café robusta de São Tomé e Príncipe

Robusta coffee sector inherited from the former colonial roças, part of it now growing semi-wild under forest cover. A Slow Food Presidium…

São Tomé, São Tomé e Príncipe

CARTA, bus électriques à recharge par induction

Public transport authority for the Chattanooga area, an early adopter of wireless charging for its downtown electric shuttles. The system…

Chattanooga, Tennessee, États-Unis

Cenicafé

National coffee research centre founded in 1938 by the Federación Nacional de Cafeteros, based in Chinchiná, Caldas department. Its work…

Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombie

Center for Wearable Sensors, UC San Diego

Laboratory led by Professor Joseph Wang, which in 2014 produced a temporary tattoo able to generate current from lactate in sweat. That…

La Jolla, San Diego, États-Unis

💓 Body energy

Centre Songhaï

Training and production centre for integrated agroecology founded in 1985 by Father Godfrey Nzamujo, organised as a system where the…

Porto-Novo, Bénin

Cerbambu Ravena

Bamboo reference centre run by craftsman Lucio Ventania, based in the Ravena district of Sabará, on the outskirts of Belo Horizonte. It…

Ravena, Sabará, Brésil

Cluster carotte de Gotland

Local chain that emerged on Gotland in the 1990s around carrots, whose grading rejects fed a brewery, whose spent grain then fed a bakery.…

Fole, Gotland, Suède

🍺 Fermentation

Colegio de las Aguas Montebello

School founded in 2004 by the Fundación Escuela para la Vida and architect Andrés Bäppler in the Montebello district above Cali. Its seven…

Montebello, Cali, Colombie

Cooperativa de la Frontera (El Hierro)

Farming cooperative in Frontera, northwest El Hierro, gathering more than 450 members, with vines making up most of its output under the…

Frontera, El Hierro, Espagne

Dessine moi un Héro

Illustrator of Gunter's Fables, graphic designer for the common good.

Siège social

📖 Gunter's Fables

DYCLE

Berlin initiative led by Ayumi Matsuzaka and Christian Schloh, organising the collection of compostable nappies from neighbourhood families…

Berlin, Allemagne

🚰 Sanitation

Earthstone International

Company founded in Santa Fe by Andrew Ungerleider and Gay Dillingham, turning recycled glass into abrasive foam used in cleaning blocks and…

Santa Fe, Nouveau-Mexique, États-Unis

Eastgate Centre

Office and retail building in central Harare, designed by architect Mick Pearce and completed in 1996, passively ventilated through a…

Harare, Zimbabwe

ECOALF

Clothing brand founded in Madrid in 2009 by Javier Goyeneche, manufacturing from recycled materials including nylon from fishing nets…

Madrid, Espagne

🧵 Textiles

École de Laggarberg (Ecocycle Design)

Primary school in Timrå designed by architect Anders Nyquist using his Ecocycle Design method, which treats natural ventilation, water…

Timrå, Sundsvall, Suède

Ecovative Design

Company based in Green Island, New York, making packaging and materials by growing mycelium on agricultural residues held in moulds. The…

Green Island, New York, États-Unis

Ecover

Belgian maker of cleaning and laundry products based on plant and mineral surfactants, founded in 1980 and located in Malle, Antwerp…

Malle, Belgique

⚗️ Green chemistry

Ekofungi

Serbian company led by Ivanka Milenkovic, growing oyster mushrooms on substrates made from agro-industrial and urban waste, including spent…

Padinska Skela, Belgrade, Serbie

EnerGaia

Fresh spirulina producer founded by Saumil Shah, whose original installation sits on a Bangkok hotel roof and reuses heat and condensate…

Bangkok, Thaïlande

🌊 Blue Economy 📚 Education & Transmission 🐋 Ocean & Biodiversity

Fraunhofer IIS, récupération d'énergie thermoélectrique

Applied research institute in Erlangen developing energy-harvesting circuits able to power sensors from very small temperature differences,…

Erlangen, Allemagne

💓 Body energy

Fundación para la Investigación Atlántida Marina

El Árbol de la Vida Marina (Fundación FIATMAR) es una plataforma NatureTech en el Caribe colombiano que aplica los principios de la…

Santa Marta, Colombie

Future of Hope Foundation

Foundation created by Chido Govera, running a teaching farm at Christon Bank on the rural edge of Harare. It teaches mushroom growing on…

Christon Bank, Harare, Zimbabwe

Gorona del Viento (El Hierro)

Hybrid plant combining an 11.5 MW wind farm with a pumped-storage system between two reservoirs 700 metres apart in elevation, in service…

El Hierro, Espagne

Green School Bali

International school founded in 2008 by John and Cynthia Hardy, with a campus built almost entirely from bamboo and open to the air,…

Sibang Kaja, Badung, Indonésie

Hacienda El Roble

Coffee estate of 300 to 330 hectares on the Mesa de los Santos plateau in Santander department, owned by Osvaldo Acevedo. Coffee is…

Mesa de los Santos, Piedecuesta, Colombie

Hathikuli Tea Estate

687-hectare tea estate on the edge of Kaziranga National Park, converted to organic farming from 2007 by Amalgamated Plantations. It…

Bokakhat, Golaghat, Inde

Hemarina

Breton biopharmaceutical company using the extracellular haemoglobin of the marine lugworm Arenicola marina, which carries oxygen without…

Morlaix, France

Hogar de Cristo

NGO founded in 1971 in Guayaquil, producing and selling low-cost prefabricated social housing, including guadua cane models, financed by…

Guayaquil, Équateur

Java Biocolloid

Indonesian agar producer working from Gracilaria and Gelidium red seaweed, founded in 2009 by Lino and Gloria Paravano within the Hakiki…

Surabaya, Indonésie

Jorge Reynolds, nanostimulateur cardiaque

Jorge Reynolds Pombo, a Colombian engineer born in 1936 and inventor in 1958 of the first external cardiac pacemaker, has worked since the…

Bogotá, Colombie

Koljern (verre cellulaire)

Building system for foundations and walls made from cellular glass, developed by Åke Mård, which removes thermal bridges and avoids…

Kvissleby, Sundsvall, Suède

Las Gaviotas

Village-laboratory founded by Paolo Lugari in 1971 in the eastern Llanos, where reforesting arid savanna with Caribbean pine allowed a…

Gaviotas, Vichada, Colombie

🌳 Ecological restoration

Levande Filter

Swedish company selling indoor air purification systems based on plants, developed from Professor Lars Thofelt's research in the Sundsvall…

Njurunda, Sundsvall, Suède

Levures sauvages de Patagonie (IPATEC)

Research led by Diego Libkind at the IPATEC institute (CONICET) in Bariloche, which in 2011 identified Saccharomyces eubayanus in…

San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentine

🍺 Fermentation

Liamuiga Natural Farm

Coffee farm at around 450 metres altitude in the Molineux area, on the edge of protected rainforest on the slopes of Mount Liamuiga. It…

Molineux, St Kitts, Saint-Christophe-et-Niévès

Life Cykel

Company founded in 2015 in Fremantle by Julian Mitchell and Ryan Creed to grow oyster mushrooms on coffee grounds from local cafés,…

Fremantle, Australie

MEGTEC Göteborg (Dürr Systems)

Gothenburg engineering office behind the VOCSIDIZER reverse-flow thermal oxidiser, used to burn highly diluted mine methane and industrial…

Göteborg, Suède

Mijnwater

Fifth-generation district heating and cooling network drawing water from the former coal mines of Heerlen, in service since 2008 and run by…

Heerlen, Pays-Bas

Ministère de l'Économie bleue des Seychelles

Ministry of Fisheries, Agriculture and the Blue Economy based at Maison Collet in Victoria, steering national maritime policy for a country…

Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles

🏝️ Island strategy

Montfort Boys Town

Catholic vocational school at Veisari, some fifteen kilometres from Suva, training young people in technical trades. In the 1990s it hosted…

Veisari, Suva, Fidji

Naturally Brilliant Colour (Lifescaped)

Laboratory and studio founded in 2015 by biologist Andrew Parker in Brierley Hill, producing Pure Structural Colour, a colour created by…

Brierley Hill, West Midlands, Royaume-Uni

💡 Gunter Pauli's Projects 📚 Education & Transmission 🔋 Energy

Nautilus Explore

Expéditions à bord de voiliers d’observation et de collecte de données scientifiques (acoustique & ADN-e)

Port-de-Bouc, France

🐋 Ocean & Biodiversity

Novamont Matrìca (Porto Torres)

Biorefinery built on a former petrochemical site at Porto Torres, created in 2011 through the Matrìca joint venture between Novamont and…

Porto Torres, Sardaigne, Italie

⚗️ Green chemistry

Pax Scientific

Design firm founded in 1997 by Jay Harman in San Rafael, applying the spiral geometry seen in natural flows to fans, mixers and water…

San Rafael, Californie, États-Unis

💧 Water treatment

Porrima P111

Solar vessel, formerly the Tûranor PlanetSolar, renamed Porrima and relaunched at Kaohsiung on 23 May 2025 after a refit, under Taiwanese…

Kaohsiung, Taïwan

🧴 Marine plastic

Ports bleus du Cap-Vert

National port modernisation programme tied to Cabo Verde's blue economy strategy, which targets 25% of GDP and 35,000 jobs by 2030. A new…

Mindelo, São Vicente, Cap-Vert

🏝️ Island strategy

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Abuja, Nigéria

Pristine Palau

National development plan written for the Republic of Palau and handed to President Surangel Whipps Jr in March 2025 as a book printed on…

Koror, Palau

🏝️ Island strategy

Producteur bambou géant

I plant and propagate giant bamboo as well as other plant species on our farm with my family. We are creators and seekers of new visions of…

Alghero

🌊 Blue Economy ♻️ Circular Economy 🎋 Bamboo

Protix

Dutch company rearing black soldier flies on food-industry side streams, whose main Bergen op Zoom site is described as the largest insect…

Bergen op Zoom, Pays-Bas

🦗 Insects

Reef Renewal Bonaire

Organisation based in Kralendijk that grows elkhorn and staghorn corals in underwater nurseries before replanting them on Bonaire's reefs.…

Kralendijk, Bonaire

🌳 Ecological restoration

RotterZwam

Urban oyster mushroom farm grown on coffee grounds collected by bike from cafés and offices in Rotterdam. It occupies the former Tropicana…

Rotterdam, Pays-Bas

Separett

Swedish maker of urine-diverting dry toilets, founded in 1976 on the research of Mats Wolgast in Uppsala. The design separates urine from…

Skeppshult, Suède

🚰 Sanitation

Simón Vélez, architecture en guadua

Colombian architect born in 1949 and based in Bogotá, who developed a structural jointing method for guadua bamboo by injecting mortar into…

Bogotá, Colombie

🌊 Blue Economy 📚 Education & Transmission 🐋 Ocean & Biodiversity

Singtex

Taiwanese textile maker founded in 1989 and listed since 2014, producing S.Café yarn by embedding processed coffee grounds in polyester…

Xinzhuang, New Taipei, Taïwan

🧵 Textiles

SOI Foundation: Blue Futures Pathways

Blue Futures Pathways, led by the SOI Foundation, provides education and career pathway support for youth in the Blue Economy. The focus is…

Gatineau, Canada

SOI Foundation: Blue Futures Pathways

Blue Futures Pathways, led by the SOI Foundation, provides education and career pathway support for youth in the Blue Economy. The focus is…

Gatineau, Canada

🌊 Blue Economy 📚 Education & Transmission 🐋 Ocean & Biodiversity

Stablepharma

UK company based in Bath developing the StablevaX technology, which aims to make vaccines and injectables stable outside the cold chain. A…

Bath, Royaume-Uni

Station caféière de Kianjavato

FOFIFA research station holding one of the world's main collections of wild coffee species, including Malagasy Mascarocoffea species that…

Kianjavato, Madagascar

Sundrop Farms

Twenty-hectare greenhouse complex at Port Augusta, in an arid zone, growing tomatoes with seawater desalinated on site and heat from a…

Port Augusta, Australie

Taiwan Lung Meng (papier de pierre)

Taiwanese maker of stone paper, a sheet made of roughly 80% calcium carbonate with a polymer binder, produced without water or wood pulp.…

Shanshang, Tainan, Taïwan

Te Mā Tairoto (lagon de Takaroa)

Clean-up scheme for Takaroa lagoon targeting pearl-farming waste, led by the engineering firm Odewa. A sonar-equipped underwater robot…

Takaroa, Tuamotu, Polynésie française

🧴 Marine plastic

Terumo, aiguilles Nanopass

Terumo Corporation sells the Nanopass needle range, whose tip geometry draws on the mosquito proboscis to reduce injection pain. Launched…

Tokyo, Japon

The Seaweed Company

Company founded in 2018 by Joost Wouters, Edwin Sneekes and Stefan Kraan, headquartered in Amsterdam and operating seaweed farms in the…

Amsterdam, Pays-Bas