You should give some names if you personally know them.

I work with Hybrid Reefs out of Scripps in San Diego. Daniel is an amazing dude, Moore fellow, and prolific inventor. If you can help, there’s contact info on the website. https://www.hybridreefs.com/

Coral Vita is the trailblazer in the for profit category, first coral Series A (2025). I don’t know them yet though. https://www.coralvita.co

https://coral.org is a 501c3. One of my friends is on the board.

Other fun stuff.

Mars runs one of the most prolific programs: https://www.buildingcoral.com/

Reefstarter was backed by my friends at SOSV. They design coastal barriers. Great team. East coast for any of you Floridians. https://www.reefstarter.net/

There’s more but there’s a few off the top.

In general the US is primarily focused on erosion control since the beaches are disappearing. Coral is more an afterthought especially with the gutting of all our science. Australia is really leading the way here with AIMS and Saudi has KAUST. Big ups to the Paul Allen Foundation though, they gave Scripps $10M a few years back.

Fun stat to end with: coral reefs are responsible for over $10T in annual economic value. They get less than $1B a year to ensure they stick around. We’re gonna change that.

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bluebarbet a day ago | parent | next [-]

The irony surely being that the "economic value" here supposedly worth $10T is, ultimately, the very cause of their undoing (human economic activity is somewhat directly correlated with environmental destruction). Personally I'd prefer to live in a world where we saved coral reefs for their own sake and not for their economic value.

Still, it's a detail. Well done for the amazing work you're doing. We all depend on people like you and the organizations you mention.

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bix6 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I’m with you re saving them. It’s always been crazy to me how much capitalism undervalues the irreplaceable things that make this world so special.

I appreciate it. It’s an uphill battle but it’s worth it.

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tjwebbnorfolk a day ago | parent | prev [-]

You'd prefer to live in a world where labor is free and we don't need to work for anything? I like the current world better.

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bix6 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How can you say that without experiencing the other world? If people didn’t need to work to live the creativity unleashed would be insane.

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foxglacier 15 hours ago | parent [-]

No. Plenty of people are in that boat - look at youth unemployment in many countries - or housewives. And yet somehow workers seem to do the most creative work.

	▲	ljf 11 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This is so off-topic to corals, but I feel I need to address your two comments - one you are saying housewives don't do any labour? My wife isn't currently in paid employment but likely puts in more hours per day supporting our family in a multitude of different ways, thank I do at work/commuting. Despite this unseen labour, I know many housewives who do find time for creativity a multitude of different ways. Re unemployment - back when basic necessities were met, the KLF wrote a book about about going on the dole and unleashing your creativity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manual
	▲	bix6 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Lmao some people just don’t get it.

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Geezus_42 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No, we'd prefer a world in which we don't destroy the environment for the sole purpose of creating more unneeded and largely useless widgets.

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palata 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> I like the current world better.

Think about that in the next years when you finally realise how screwed we are.

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antonvs 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> coral reefs are responsible for over $10T in annual economic value.

Chatgpt’s assessment of this claim: “not well supported by the mainstream literature and is likely misleading.”

	▲	bix6 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Congratulations on your comprehensive research! I researched this prior and found sources for all my numbers. What’s your counterclaim if not $10T?