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The Founder Speaks 
… Personal Thoughts
My 89 year old mother, Martha, died April 1st. She lived an incredible life. As a girl in grade school, she traveled in a horse-drawn covered wagon from her home in Nebraska to a new life in Denver, Colorado. When she was in her mid-eighties she flew three times to Eritrea, Africa, where she helped with the work at Seawater Farms Eritrea, our first commercial-scale integrated seawater farm. She rode camels, started a vegetable garden, and fell in love with the people of Eritrea.
During the last weeks of her life, we discussed her adventures in Africa many times. She was concerned with the drought in Eritrea and its toll on the people.
I committed to my mom that there will soon be seawater forests along the desert coasts of the world, including Africa. SeaForests will be places for her grandchildren and great grandchildren – the most recently born in the “great” category having visited her three weeks before her death – to play in. And the SeaForests will be designed and built to make sure the whole world is better because of our and others’ work to meet the challenge of global warming.
If you have not already done so, read the Time magazine issued April 3rd with the cover “Be Worried. Be Very Worried.” I tried to buy 100 copies of that Time so we could send it out if you asked, but they were sold out. That is a good sign. We have asked Time if we can put the whole articles up here. If you do not have Time in Europe, read James Lovelock’s new book Revenge of Gaia. Wherever you are, look at Lovelock’s and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s comments on his book.
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Welcome to The Seawater Foundation
Imagine growing crops without fresh water.
 Imagine growing them on coastal deserts where the principal crop now is sand.
Imagine growing plants that have never been cultivated, but which are thousands of years old.
Imagine these plants produce any number of useful things – a gourmet vegetable, an edible oil, a high protein meal which can feed people and animals, valuable chemicals and straw that can replace wood chips in the making of particle board or be used as fodder for livestock. And imagine trees that protect the environment and help prevent and fix global warming.
 Now imagine irrigating these plants with natural seawater. That’s right, seawater.
Imagine growing marine animals in that same seawater – shrimp and fish and perhaps oysters and abalone – and imagine using their nutrient rich effluent water to fertilize the crop.
Imagine the run-off from these seawater farms being used to create new species-rich wetlands.
That is the revolutionary system of agriculture imagined – and made real – by the Seawater Foundation. Think of this as the Seawater Revolution.
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