Aligned Organizations

There are many Water advocacy and activist organizations doing good work aligned with Loving Waters principles and ethics. This is a growing list, so please check back often.

Australia

Take 3 for the Sea Take 3- A Clean Beach Initiative is an Australia based non-profit organisation focussing on the reduction plastic pollution in the oceans and beaches.

Clean Up Australia Increasingly we are confronted by images of wildlife that have died because of plastic in our waterways

USA

4 Ocean Join the clean ocean movement.

AquaVida Ocean Clean Up. Keeping our local waterways clean and healthy is our mission.

Greenpeace Green Peace organization, the most successful organizations working in the area of oceans, works towards several issues pertaining to the marine environment. With its vast networks across the world, the organisation argues big corporations to act to reduce their plastic footprint to end the flow of plastic into our oceans. In addition, Green Peace is also engaged in addressing unsustainable industrial fishing practices, climate change and ocean acidification.

The 5 Gyres Institute The 5 Gyres Institute is a non-profit organization that works for cutting plastics pollution through giving focus on primary research. The organisation says it fights against pollution through science, art, education, and adventure. As a result of their efforts, the organisations in 2015 could successfully help impose a ban on plastic microbeads used in skincare and cosmetic products in the United States.

The Environmental Defence Fund The US-based Environmental Defence Fund or EDF is known for its works in the area of global warming, ecosystem restoration and oceans.

Bahamas Plastic Movement's goal is to make the region free of plastic debris using research, education, citizen science, and policy change. The mission of the movement is to build a community of education and activism around plastic pollution. Launched in 2014, the movement conducts plastic education campus encourages people to join the programme by adopting a beach etc.

SeaLegacy is a non-profit organisation formed by a group of experienced and renowned photographers, filmmakers, and storytellers who work towards making the oceans healthy and abundant

Mission Resolve Mission Resolve Foundation supports crucial ocean plastic clean-up work of great organizations like Ocean Voyages Institute (OVI). Mission Resolve recently gifted OVI $25,000 as a challenge grant to other sponsors to join them in supporting this critically needed clean-up work. The highly successful first leg of the OVI clean-up expedition included collaborating organizations such as NASA, Smithsonian, Scripps Oceanography, University of Hawaii, and University of Washington. The expedition returned to Hawaii from the North Pacific Sub-Tropical Convergence Zone on June 23rd, pulling 103 tons of fishing nets and consumer plastics and having set a record for the largest open ocean clean-up that has ever been done.

eXXpedition is a Community Interest Company and not-for-profit organisation that runs pioneering all-female sailing research expeditions to investigate the causes of and solutions to ocean plastic pollution.

Founded in 2014, we have run expeditions all over the world. Previous scientific research has highlighted the endemic nature of microplastics within our ocean environments globally. Our focus now is to advance a better understanding of the plastics issue as a whole and to work with industry to pinpoint solutions and policy at a global level by addressing knowledge-gaps and delivering evidence to inform effective solutions.

The Ocean Clean Up The largest clean up in history. WE DEVELOP ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES TO RID THE OCEANS OF PLASTICEvery year, millions of tons of plastic enter the oceans, of which the majority spills out from rivers. A portion of this plastic travels to ocean garbage patches, getting caught in a vortex of circulating currents. If no action is taken, the plastic will increasingly impact our ecosystems, health, and economies. WE AIM TO CLEAN UP 90% OF OCEAN PLASTIC POLLUTIONTo achieve this objective, we have to work on a combination of closing the source and cleaning up what has already accumulated in the ocean and doesn’t go away by itself.