STORIES
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Mark Schrope: Urchins, robots, and a race to save kelp forests
Oceanographic columnist Mark Schrope dives into a restored Santa Monica kelp forest and explores the innovations - from urchin-smashing robots to sea star rearing - helping scale kelp restoration efforts...
Mark Schrope: Urchins, robots, and a race to save kelp forests
Oceanographic columnist Mark Schrope dives into a restored Santa Monica kelp forest and explores the innovations - from urchin-smashing robots to sea star rearing - helping scale kelp restoration efforts...
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Meet the People Turning Sea Urchins into Sustainable and Super Stylish Tile
By purchasing urchins from commercial divers and conservation groups clearing restoration sites, Urchinite helps fund ongoing removal efforts and supports a longer-term vision for kelp recovery. That blend of science,...
Meet the People Turning Sea Urchins into Sustainable and Super Stylish Tile
By purchasing urchins from commercial divers and conservation groups clearing restoration sites, Urchinite helps fund ongoing removal efforts and supports a longer-term vision for kelp recovery. That blend of science,...
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How To Revive California’s Underwater Forests? Smash A Spiky, Hungry Foe.
A start-up, Primitives Biodesign, is developing a kind of urchin-shell marble, one that Virj Kan, the company’s chief executive, hopes will be strong but lightweight compared with natural stone. A...
How To Revive California’s Underwater Forests? Smash A Spiky, Hungry Foe.
A start-up, Primitives Biodesign, is developing a kind of urchin-shell marble, one that Virj Kan, the company’s chief executive, hopes will be strong but lightweight compared with natural stone. A...
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This Outrageously Pretty Purple Tile Is Actually Made out of Sea Urchins
A Berkeley-based company is crafting materials that will help save California kelp forests. By Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine If you’re a surfer or avid tidepooler, you likely have been...
This Outrageously Pretty Purple Tile Is Actually Made out of Sea Urchins
A Berkeley-based company is crafting materials that will help save California kelp forests. By Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine If you’re a surfer or avid tidepooler, you likely have been...
UPCOMING EVENTS
ABOUT PRIMITIVES
Primitives is a biodesign company that develops advanced materials to solve the planet’s most critical environmental challenges. Through cutting-edge materials science, innovative design, and systems engineering, Primitives is reshaping the materials economy into a platform for nature and ecosystem restoration. Working in partnership with leading non-profits, governments, industry, research organizations, cultural institutions, and regional communities, Primitives is building towards a future where — nature speaks, and systems listen. Its consumer-facing architectural surfaces brand, MARBLIS™ brings this vision to the built environment and introduces a new class of stone surfaces called biocalcite, engineered to support ecosystem repair and design performance. Its debut innovation, Urchinite™ is the world's first bio marble made from sea urchins, designed to restore kelp forests and regenerate marine biodiversity.
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