🍃Can tech turn the tide for our oceans?

Did you know?

We’re losing seagrass meadows at the rate of a small country each year, yet, these underwater ecosystems are climate powerhouses.

→ They capture 35x more carbon than rainforests
→ Support marine biodiversity
→ And filter water naturally

The problem? Manual restoration is slow, expensive, and difficult to scale.

But four founders, Akhil V., Colm O'Brien, Jamie Wedderburn, and Will O'Brien, saw it differently.

They built Ulysses Ecosystem Engineering, a company using autonomous drones to restore marine habitats 100x faster than traditional methods.

These drones:

Harvest seeds from healthy seagrass meadows

Replant degraded areas

And monitor regrowth autonomously

They’re faster, cheaper, more precise and already generating real traction($1M+ in revenue and $2M in funding to expand globally).

The big idea:

Sustainability strategies that gain traction share one thing in common:

They speak the language of value.

What Ulysses is doing isn’t just restoration. 

• It’s cost efficiency.

• It’s operational speed.

• It’s measurable impact.

And that’s exactly what I talk about in the video below. 

After three intensive days with 80 sustainability leaders, one key message stood out:

If you want support, you need to go beyond carbon metrics.

You need to show the business case. This has been my point for many years and is at the core my bestselling book, so I was super happy to see how it is now really spreading.

That means positioning your work not as a moral imperative, but as a strategic lever for resilience, cost reduction, innovation, and growth.

Click here to watch the video.

📌Weekly reflection:

What’s one initiative you’re struggling to get approval for?

Now ask: how clearly have you articulated the business value behind it?

If you’re ready to turn good ideas into funded, scalable solutions, let’s talk.

Just reply and tell me:

👉What’s one result you’d love to unlock faster?

I’ll personally read every message.

If I can help, I’ll respond directly.

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Jasper