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Thank you Daniela V. Fernandez for including Okhtapus ?? Ending the week with a splash ?? ?? If you are still looking this is a great summary of what is happening throughout the week! #ClimateWeekNYC #Blueplanet

Time’s up! Our blue planet has reached multiple tipping points—adapting to climate change isn’t tomorrow’s problem, it’s today’s crisis. We’re unprepared for rising seas, irreversible biodiversity loss, and the health and economic impacts changing the lives and livelihoods of communities worldwide. Our health and our future is on the line. Will our oceans save us, or will we be swept away? We are thrilled to have partnered with The New York Climate Exchange, Climate Group and our allies at The Undertow during #NYCClimateWeek to help answer that question! If you're in town, don’t miss The Ocean Countdown: Dine, Design, Do—our event focused on uniting ocean and coastal solutions, projects, and funders. Transitions are never easy, and we’ve learned a lot from the green transition. Now, we’re eager to apply those lessons to ensure the blue transition goes further, faster, and fairer. If you want to know more and help us shape the future, join us on Friday, September 27th, from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM EDT. We’re bringing together innovators, project enablers, and a range of funders - what we refer to as the 3 hearts of the Okhtapus - to explore how ocean/coastal solutions can turn the tide on climate change. We’ll be diving deep into critical themes: ?? What We Take ? What We Waste ?? What We Protect ?? What We Repair And hearing from some incredible people like Laurian Farrell, Kate Brown, Stephen Hammer, Nidia Martínez, Ph.D., mark huang, Heather Starck Zachary A. McCue and other #blueplanetstars. Whether you’re driving innovation, enabling projects, financing impact, or simply sharing our vision for a thriving blue planet, we would love to have you!? Don’t miss your chance to make waves! Secure your spot now and be part of the change. ?? ?? Date: September 27th, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT ?? Location: 309 Clayton Rd, New York, NY 10004 ?? Register: https://shorturl.at/IyOFL #oceancountdown24 #NYCClimateWeek2024 #OceanSolutions #ClimateAction #Oceanclimateaction #Oceanresilience Mehrnaz Ghojeh, Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy, WEDG Serena Nguyen, Amanda Horn

Cool Job klaxon ?? ?? Come join us at Okhtapus as a #GlobalEngagement and #CommunityManager and help us collaborate globally and tell stories that shape a healthy future for #people and for our #BluePlanet! ?? Location: Remote (Global) or Hybrid (London) ?? Type: Part-time/Full-time (6 Months with potential extension) ?? Deadline to Apply: Thursday, July 11th, 2024, by 10 am GMT ?? Job Description: https://bit.ly/3xBegJs Are you ready to disrupt and reimagine the future? We are a rapidly growing team dedicated to transforming our blue planet. We're on a mission to scale innovative ocean, coastal, and water solutions globally through finance, replication and mobilising a community of ocean lovers and changemakers. ?? ?? ?? As one of our first strategic hires, we are looking for a creative and curious storyteller, who excels in design, communication, and marketing. You will be helping us position our brand and build a strong, engaged community. If you are passionate about impactful storytelling and excited about client and partner collaborations in a diverse and fast-paced environment, this role might be for for you. If you are interested, please submit your resume, cover letter, and portfolio (if applicable) to [email protected] by 10 am GMT, Thursday, July 11th, 2024. We look forward to having you join us to drive the #bluetransition further, faster, and fairer!

Cool Job klaxon ?? ?? Come Join us at Okhtapus as our first #FounderAssociate and help us shape a healthy future for #people and for our #BluePlanet! ?? Location: Remote (Global) or Hybrid (London) ?? Type: Part-time/Full-time (6 Months with potential extension) ?? Deadline to Apply: Thursday, July 11th, 2024, by 10 am GMT ?? Job Description: https://bit.ly/3RIPI8g Are you ready to disrupt and reimagine the future? We are a rapidly growing team dedicated to transforming our blue planet. We're on a mission to scale innovative ocean, coastal, and water solutions globally through finance, replication and mobilising a community of ocean lovers and changemakers. ?? ?? ?? The Founder Associate will support our founders with strategic and operational initiatives, helping shape Okhtapus' direction and driving impactful change. This role is perfect for a systems thinker with a passion for social and global impact. If you are interested, please submit your resume, cover letter, and portfolio (if applicable) to [email protected] by 10 am GMT, Thursday, July 11th, 2024. We look forward to having you join us to drive the #bluetransition further, faster, and fairer!

3 HEARTS, 9 BRAINS AND AN ARMY OF PEOPLE TO SAVE OUR OCEAN Last week Okhtapus celebrated ocean week and #worldoceanday with the rest of our #blueplanet. And while every day is ocean day for us, it’s also important to remember that each and every day the ocean is the life force of the planet. The ocean makes our planet liveable. The ocean drives the water cycle for all of us. The ocean contains 97% of the earth’s water. It is one ocean for a planet that is 71% water. We depend on the ocean for keeping our planetary system working - feeding and then receiving constantly from river and lake locations. It’s all connected. Additionally, the ocean and those contributing waterways that we speak of so often are intrinsically connected to the health and wealth of all our communities, to the social, cultural and economic fabric, especially in coastal communities. To our origins and sustenance as humans. That’s why our global model at Okhtapus not only looks at deep ocean health but extends to the blue of coastal and contributing waterways and their communities, as well as the terrestrial contexts that can either hurt or help (or both) the ocean and freshwater sources. This includes bodies of water like the inland seas of the #GreatLakes in North America or #LakeMalawi in Africa. We are deeply committed to providing new pathways for equity and justice, focused on the ocean and coastal regions, including cities and communities of all sizes, as well as island and mainland populations that continue to grow, but also face increasing climate threats. We terrestrial dwellers tend to not see the ocean for what it is, sometimes simply because it appears so vast and untouchable, or an “out of sight, out of mind” situation. At Okhtapus we have created a model based on “three hearts” - solution innovators, project enabler/owners and financiers, to all be working in concert - Sometimes that’s a city government, sometimes that’s a corporation, sometimes that’s a #bluetech, #blueeconomy or #naturebasedsolution innovator - all funded or financed through a spectrum of impact investment providers. If you want to reimagine the future of our ocean and/or iIf you represent one of those three hearts/nodes, we want to hear from you and we want you to join our army of ocean changemakers!

Introducing Okhtapus – on this day, #EarthDay, we are thrilled to announce our global replication platform, designed to empower ocean change-makers to rapidly connect, scale, finance and replicate blue solutions. Our vision is a world absent of harmful planetary threats to the ocean, its contributing waterways and the communities that depend on them. We are on a mission to build the first global replication platform dedicated to resilient and equitable ocean and coastal solutions, powered by the potential of people and the ocean to bring about a regenerative future. We invite you to join us on this urgent journey. We live on a blue planet, a watery planet – a planet (we call earth) that provides life and abundance to us through its unique makeup – 71% of the surface covered by water, 96.5% of our water in the ocean – but the “whole of water” for our planet and the water cycle exists in the air, in rivers, lakes, glaciers and icecaps, in soil and in ground water and aquifers. And in us and the animals around us. When we are born, we are made up of 70-75% water. Unfortunately, we have abused our relationship with the ocean and its contributing waterways, and combined with the growing shocks and stresses of natural and manmade pressures and changes (most of them from the terrestrial side), our blue systems are under threat. We are not investing enough, we are not moving fast enough, and we are not putting communities and equitable, holistic solution matchmaking at the forefront. From nature-based-solutions (NbS) to coastal blue tech and blue economy, Okhtapus plans to solve for the “middle ground” to bring solution providers and innovators together with project enablers and investment for increased speed, efficiency and replication. Okhtapus was founded by Mehrnaz Ghojeh and Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy, WEDG in early 2024, with a growing team of advisors in #ocean, #blueeconomy, #coastalresilience and #regenerativedesign. Like the eponymous animal of our inspiration and its three hearts and multiple intelligent arms, Okhtapus will unite the three nodes of project enablers, solution innovators and financing institutions, pulling together the ocean and blue ecosystem. If any of this sounds like your way of noting Earth Day 2024, please reach out and let’s forge new pathways and partnerships for our blue planet! We look forward to working with our partners, advisors and broader Okhtapus community members to change the course for people and the planet, on this day and every day.