The expertise is already here. There is a growing kelp community that will build this emerging sector.
Read MoreIn making the hubs, The Brooklyn Diaper Project has partnered with Refoundry, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit organization committed to disrupting the forces that drive poverty and incarceration.
Read MoreCan we ready ourselves to see what happens when we do make diapers readily available? Are we committed to shining a light on whatever we learn?
Read MoreGrowing up on Long Island is an experience unlike any other.
Read MoreYou might think that reaching our diaper goal is the final destination of this project, or that the process of distributing the diapers is the journey we see ahead. Why, then, do we have them all piled up as our starting block?
Read MoreCreativity isn’t something you can find on Pinterest- nor is it a skill. It’s an awareness- an honest and brave understanding of what’s actually available.
Read MoreWe did, in fact, start the fire.
Read MoreWe are doubling down on the uncomfortable and the unknown. We think it’s exactly the kind of overhaul that this world needs to see more of right now.
Read MoreThis can’t just be a project that ends when we blow the whistle to file off the field. If we don’t commit to dismantling systemic inequality while we distribute diapers, it’s all for naught.
Read MoreThe only things we can know with certainty in these times.
Read MoreCan we live without toilet paper? Will we have no choice but to try? How did we get to the point where access to basic hygiene wasn’t a given?
Read MoreIn our experience of processing the first two batches, I discovered the residue that dried sugar kelp leaves behind - a soft, delicate, sweet, umami, salty powder - that would collect in the smallest piles…
Read MoreWe rang in 2020 with two very dear friends, joking and dreaming around the brunch table about one day starting our own kelp farm.
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