StartupRealities

StartupRealities No 127 IslandSaviour is a sea defence construction company which builds breakwaters around private islands to insulate them from the effect of sea level rise. Global sea levels are forecast to go up by 0.75 metres by 2100 as a result of climate change and melting polar ice caps. Building underwater sea walls along vulnerable coastline reduces beach erosion and protects land from being taken over by the ocean. CEO QUOTE "Wealthy individuals and cruise companies own many islands and are willing to pay for their preservation. Whereas governments that award public works to us to protect coastline generally are not too picky about the looks of a breakwater, private owners usually demand an unspoilt view. In such cases, we build the breakwaters a dozen centimetres below the mean ocean surface. In other words, we create a giant infinity pool around the island. This is also good for the environment, as it allows fish migration." - said IslandSaviour founder and...

StartupRealities No 38 OceanAdopt is an environmental marketing company that offers individuals and corporations to adopt a plot in the ocean and emails them a satellite photo of their adopted plot once a year. The standard plot offered to individuals is 3x3 metres (i.e. 9 square metres in total) and the standard plot offered to corporations is 1x1 kilometres (i.e. 1.0 square kilometre, equalling 111,111 smaller individual plots). The three-metre dimensions and plots were chosen to coincide with unique identification of plots of the same size on the what3words.com website, where each 3-metre-side square is allocated a unique 3-word combination to denote its location (instead of geographical coordinates). CEO QUOTE "We cannot give you the sky because the sky would be difficult to photograph from above. But we can give you the sea. And we do. Each of our customers adopts a unique piece of the ocean," said company founder and CEO Ossian Elevson. "The photo we email t...