Tag: seaweed

Seaweed fashion brands can source from Saudi Arabian sea

From Red Sea seaweed to runway-ready fabric, Saudi Arabia is quietly reshaping fashion’s material future. KAUST scientists, designers, and textile innovators are proving that sustainability can begin in local ecosystems. As seaweed becomes wearable, fashion is learning to grow not from fields — but from tides.

Dulse is a seaweed superfood that tastes like bacon!

The appeal of dulse is multi-layered. It's protein-rich (about 16% of its dried weight), and loaded with antioxidants, vitamins and minerals.  It grows quickly and inexpensively in natural or farmed settings.  To date, no one has attempted to grow it on a commercial-scale for human consumption. But now that this new variety replicates the taste of artery-clogging, salt-laden, Big Food-produced bacon, seaweed farming is a new game.

Nir Meiri’s Marine Light is a Sustainable Seaweed Lamp You Can Eat

Tel Aviv's Nir Meiri recently unveiled Marine Light - a curious lamp shade made entirely of seaweed wrapped around a spindly...

Natural Holy Land Healing Research Center in Jerusalem

Seaweed is prolific in Israel’s Mediterranean Sea. It makes sense, then, that Middle Eastern ancients used it to help...