Beach Cleanup Best Practice
So, you’ve decided to organize a $BEACH cleanup, plant some Mangrove trees, or help with Kelp Bed reforestation — CONGRATULATIONS! Your efforts are making a difference improving marine ha…
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$BEACH Circular Economy Ambitions
Beach Token’s global reach, with partners soon to be collecting huge amounts of PET plastic in all corners of the planet, puts us in an incredible position to close the loop and kickstart the p…
$BEACH Partner Clean Surf Project In Action
$BEACH Partner Clean Surf Project is a beach clean-up organisation from Durban, South Africa. The clean up team were in action again at Umbogintwini Rivermouth, Amanzimtoti, KwaZulu-Nata…
$BEACH Partners With The Rubbish Project
The Rubbish Project is a company on a mission to create a waste-free world by providing circular economy solutions to the planet’s messiest problem, Rubbish. They work with businesses to cre…
$BEACH Partner Let's Go Clean The Beach In Action
$BEACH partner Let’s Go Clean the Beach has undertaken one of the biggest Beach Cleans that the $BEACH community has been involved with. Togbe Ghana and his team were in action at South Laba…
Helping Save The Seas That Sustained Me
By Mike Wedgman For over 35 years, my chosen career placed me in direct daily contact with our world’s oceans. I wasn’t a commercial fisherman, longshoreman, global shipping magnate, o…
$BEACH Partners With Ananta Sustainables
$BEACH is delighted to announce a partnership with Ananta Sustainables! Ananta Sustainables is one of the first packaging companies sourcing, supplying solutions for sustainable packaging in Sri L…
$BEACH Partners With Let's Go Clean The Beach
$BEACH is delighted to announce a partnership with Let’s Go Clean The Beach in Accra, Ghana Let’s Go Clean The Beach is founded and run by Togbe Ghana, a musician and ocean plastic act…
$BEACH Partners With Clean Surf Project
$BEACH is delighted to announce a partnership with Clean Surf Project! Clean Surf Project is a beach clean-up organisation from Durban, South Africa. As ocean lovers and regular …
$BEACH #SuperSunday Raises $20,500
$BEACH is delighted to announce that our first #SuperSunday has set aside $20,500 for our Clean Ocean & Blue Carbon Funds. The team would like to take this opportunity to thank all the $BEACH …
Microplastic Pollution Detected in Human Blood For First Time
Article by Damian Carrington, The Guardian Microplastic pollution has been detected in human blood for the first time, with scientists finding the tiny particles in almost 80% of the people tested…
Announcing The Launch of the Beach Podcast!
Announcing the launch of Beach Podcast With so many fascinating and inspiring community partners around the world we thought it remiss not to give the Beach Tribe a chance to get to know them bett…
Interview with Barefoot Mads
Tell us about your most memorable moment with a marine animal? Back in 2021 whilst I was living on Lady Elliot Island an island located on the iconic Great Barrier Reef. I’d gone out t…
Let’s Make Cyprus Green Cleanup Report
On April 2nd, Let’s Make Cyprus Green (LMCG) volunteers carried out a cleanup at Lady’s Mile Beach on behalf of Beach Token ($BEACH), an innovative DeFi token where 2% of every transactio…
Tackling Accra's plastic waste menace
When most of Accra’s population is preparing for church on Sundays, one environmental campaigner can be found clearing plastic waste from the city’s beaches. His name is Davi…
The Natural Capital Debate: Beyond Economic Growth
By John Forth-Walker The claim that corporations and states routinely and knowingly damage the environment for their own economic interests seems fairly uncontroversial. To give ju…
Jihad Hendawi - Community Partner Interview
Jihad is a 3rd generation Palestinian refugee living in Lebanon. Lebanon is going through one of the most difficult periods in its history following the Beirut port explosion, rampant corruption and …
Hayley Versace - Community Partner Interview
Hayley Versace, the General Manager of the on the ground operations of Conflict Islands Conservation Initiative (CICI) has always had a passion for marine life since she was small. Hayley was lucky e…
Building a Circular Economy in Kakuma Refugee Camp
Since we began our partnership with the Beach Collective last year and have been organising a weekly clean up of Kakuma Refugee Camp with 30 women we have managed to improve much on the standard life…
Beach Action Launching on World Oceans Day!
Sign up On World Oceans Day (8th June), the Beach Collective are proud to announce the launch of Beach Action. Combining the power of direct action and the power of social media, Beach Actio…
Students in the Cayman Islands learn about blockchain and the blue circular economy while doing something good for the planet
Beach Collective, a blockchain enabled climate tech platform is building a blue circular economy that funds clean oceans and blue carbon initiatives every time someone transacts using their native cu…
Interview with Dr. Imogen Napper
Please introduce yourself, and tell us a bit more about your work and how you protect the oceans? I’m a marine scientist based at the University of Plymouth. My whole research invetiga…
Interview with Underwater Mojo
Please introduce yourself, and tell us a bit more about your work and how you protect the oceans? I am Mark Andrew B. Badiola from the Philippines and I am a PADI Dive Master and an underwat…
Interview with Oly Rush
Last month you swam round Grand Cayman non-stop for 37 hours to raise money for Plastic Free Cayman. This is a simply unbelievable achievement everyone at the Beach Collective would like to express o…
$BEACH is migrating
$BEACH is an innovative DeFi token which internalises the health of our planet and oceans into every single transaction. Not only are the emissions of a $BEACH transaction lower than traditional card…
COP27: Does it matter?
By Emilia Isaacs Beach Collective is a blockchain enabled climate tech platform is building a blue circular economy that funds clean oceans and blue carbon initiatives every ti…
Beach Collective wins another grant!
The Beach Collective is proud to announce that, on behalf of our Tanzanian community partner Ambakofi, we have won another grant! The $5000 grant from the Sustainable Ocean Alliance was …
Oceans and Crypto
As the world becomes increasingly reliant on technology, the use of cryptocurrency has risen in popularity. But while the digital currency offers convenience and security, its production and use can …
There is no business as usual
The recent COP27 conference, where two of our founders were in attendance, produced very little in terms of meaningful commitments to reduce emissions. The overwhelming view of the negotiations, othe…
What can I do to help the oceans?
While it’s absolutely true that large organizations and governments need to do more, and we should continue to apply pressure on them to do so, this kind of narrative can send an implicit messa…
What does Beach Collective do for brands and businesses?
The Beach Collective provides Climate Market Infrastructure-as-a-Service (CMaaS) to individuals, businesses and causes along three core verticals, Commerce, CSR and Carbon. In the case of businesses,…
Launching our Youth Advisory Board!
We are on the lookout for young people to join our new Youth Advisory Board! Being a young person in today’s world can be daunting when faced with the climate crisis we are i…
Shipping containers lost at sea
Sign up to Beach Collective to help the oceans! Shipping containers are a crucial part of the global economy, as they allow for the efficient and cost-effective transportation of goods around the …
Technology cannot save us from ourselves
According to thinktank RethinkX in the coming decade, five key sector disruptions will converge to unleash “the fastest, deepest, most consequential transformation of human civilization in hist…
5 ways that you can help sea turtles!
Sign up to help the oceans here! Here are some simple ways that you can help protect sea turtles! Reduce Plastic Pollution: One of the biggest threats to sea turtles is plastic poll…
Climate Market Infrastructure-as-a-Service
The Beach Collective provides Climate Market Infrastructure-as-a-Service (CMaaS) bringing together consumers, brands and causes across the 5 C’s: Currency and Community (horizontals), and Comme…
Why are sharks so important?
Why are sharks so important? Sharks play a crucial role in maintaining the balance of the marine ecosystem. They are top predators and help control the populations of prey species, preventin…
Beach CSR
A recent study found that 69 percent of US consumers say a product’s environmental impact is important to their purchasing decision and as many as 60 percent are more likely to buy stock in a c…
How YOU can help fish
Sign up the Beach Collective today and we'll clear 1kg of waste from the oceans! There are several ways that you can help support fish populations, and some of the easiest ways include: …
Coral Reefs
Coral reefs are one of the most important and diverse ecosystems in the world and play a vital role in sustaining the ocean environment. Despite their importance, coral reefs are immensely vulnerable…
WHY CARBON MATTERS
Article by Michael Wegman At $BEACH Token, our “Climate Strategy” declared on the front page of our website is simple: $BEACH contributes 1.5% of all transactions towards clean ocean p…
$BEACH PARTNERS WITH REFUGEE-RUN NGO FAULU PRODUCTIONS
The $BEACH team are absolutely over the moon to announce a partnership with refugee-run NGO Faulu Productions. Faulu Productions was founded in Kakuma refugee camp in 2015 June by a group of refug…
$BEACH EXPANDS TO LEBANON
$BEACH are delighted to welcome two new members of the Beach Collective, Jihad and Nidal Hendawi, two Palestinian brothers based in Lebanon. Sponsored by $BEACH, Jihad and Nidal are in the process of…
$BEACH PARTNERS WITH MANGROVE ACTION PROJECT
$BEACH is delighted to announce a partnership with Mangrove Action Project (MAP). MAP is a US-based nonprofit which collaborates with stakeholders at all levels to preserve, conserve, and restore our…
$BEACH PARTNERS WITH IRMÃOS DE PONTA NEGRA
$BEACH is delighted to announce a partnership with the Irmãos de Ponta Negra neighbouhood association in Natal, Brazil. Irmãos de Ponta Negra was founded by Walter Paschoalino Junior…
Dulse, Lettuce and Tomato Sandwiches (DLTs)
As well as cultivating seaweed in laboratories and researching the carbon sequestering potential of seaweed farms, $BEACH partner PEBL has been creating some delicious seaweed recipes to promote this…
$Beach Partners With See Turtles
$BEACH is delighted to announce a partnership with SEE Turtles. SEE Turtles connects people with sea turtles in meaningful, personal and, memorable ways. They help the sea turtle community connect, g…
Rimuru - Partner Interview
Johnlloyd Prosper D. Tuso (better known to the Beach Community as Rimuru) is a 21 years old student from the Philippines studying Business Administration and Marketing. Rimuru was an early winner of …
Ismail Abdalla - Partner Interview
Ismail Abdalla is a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo living in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. He is one of the co-founders of $BEACH partner Faulu Productions, a non-profit community-base…
The Blue Circular Economy Is Here
Our oceans are not just a home for the vast majority of life on earth, they’re also our most powerful weapon in the fight to tackle climate change. The ocean absorbs around one third of anthrop…
How will the Ukraine invasion affect crypto markets?
It has been difficult to process the events of the last week. Few young people alive today, myself included, ever expected to see war in Europe in their lifetime. Now that we are watching one unfold …
Togbe Ghana - Partner Interview
Togbe Ghana has many strings to his bow. He is an afro-reggae and dancehall musician, a personal fitness trainer, and the winner of multiple awards including 2020 Ghana Best Beach Clean winner, 2020 …
$ Beach Partners with Ocean Sole
$BEACH is delighted to announce a partnership with Ocean Sole! Ocean Sole are a social enterprise that upcycles washed up flip-flops found along the beaches and waterways in Kenya. Inspired b…
$ Beach Partners With Tanzania Mangrove NGO Ambakofi
$BEACH is delighted to announce a partnership with Tanzanian NGO Ambakofi. Ambakofi is an organisation that promotes agroforestry, cost effective clean energy solutions, and environmental educat…
A Molecule of Plastic
As talk of environmental issues intensifies around the world, accurate insight into how consumers interact with various environmental solutions is important. Over time, building better human understa…
So We Bought A Kelp Farm
Beach Token are delighted to announce that the community have secured an initial five year lease for a commercial kelp farm, located off the south coast of Scotland known as the “Whithorn Kelp …
How to Correctly Recycle
Ask most people if they recycle and they will offer a resounding YES, no doubt out of a genuine desire to be a good environmental steward. But studies show that significantly less than half of people…
$BEACH PARTNERS WITH CICI
Along with co-funder SEE Turtles, $BEACH is absolutely delighted to be partnering with the Conflict Islands Conservation Initiative to patrol and protect sea turtle hatchling…
Teaching climate change
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” Those words were spoken nearly six decades ago by American social justice activis…
The Joys and Pitfalls of Digital Nomadism
As in many areas of life, the global pandemic has accelerated a trend which had been growing steadily for some time: the “Work From Anywhere” movement. Apart from being social creature…
Energy Challenges: Blockchain & Climate Change
Early in 2022, it is increasingly clear that the “Cryptographic Blockchain” genie is out of the bottle. Across the globe historical signs abound of the early stages of a slow push toward …
Aligning Incentives For Our Planet
Money is a social design, which then designs the social It is easy to assume that money is neutral. We go out to work to earn it; we spend it on goods and services. If you need more than you h…
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