Phyconomy tries to improve the flow of information in the seaweed industry
Phyconomy aims to improve the flow of information in the seaweed industry. The project (for now) consists of 2 main components
- A seaweed company database
- A 3-weekly newsletter (on a hiatus atm – it will be back)
Every year I summarize and visualize the findings from the database and the newsletter in a State of the Industry blog post.
- No SoSI for 2024 due to circumstances!
- 2023 State of the Seaweed Industry
- 2022 State of the Seaweed Industry
If you are new to the seaweed industry, you can join the learning network where seaweed beginners teach each other and collaborate.
I also offer a number of services, detailed below. To learn more about Phyconomy, see the about page.
Services
Consulting: If you have an interesting question to do with seaweeds that involves research, interviews and synthesis, I might be able to help you.
Strategic communications: Social license to operate is mission critical. You don’t have that? You don’t have a business. I work together with the excellent people at Hornbeam & Co to enhance the dialogue between your company and the various stakeholders that surround your business, and align internal and external communications. They bring the strategy, I add the seaweed context.
M&A referrals and investment advice: I don’t know anything about finance but I have on occasion connected people.
Supply chain partnerships: Are you looking for a new company to buy from, sell to or partner with? I might be able to help.
Latest posts
- Opinion: taking the temperature of Europe’s seaweed industry at Seagriculture 2023
Last week I was at Seagriculture in Norway to take the temperature of the seaweed industry in Europe. Here are my takeaways. - Macro Oceans raises $5M, completes pilot facility
Macro Oceans, the California-based seaweed biotechnology startup, announced it has completed the first phase of its pilot facility in Sacramento. - 2023 Seaweed State of the Industry
It’s the end of 2022, the second year I have been tracking the seaweed industry. Here, I try to visualise data I found in the Phyconomy database, and I look back at some of the trends I noticed in 2022. - Urchinomics secures world first kelp restoration blue carbon credits
On November 21, 2022, Urchinomics, the kelp restoration and sea urchin aquaculture venture, secured the world ́s first voluntary blue carbon credit for kelp restoration from their operations in Japan. - Oceans 2050 results further seaweed carbon science
At this year’s Monaco Ocean Week, Oceans 2050 presented their research on the potential for kelp forests and seaweed farms to sequester carbon.