Aqueduct

Come tend.

We believe that tending
toward sanctuary, together,
is how a planet becomes one.

We see a world where creatures are busy
being happy.

A life that runs its own length.
Room to roam, to play,
to sense the world fully.
Bonds of its own choosing.
A place that is its own.
And the freedom to be unseen.

Our economy already
flows. We align it
with life.

Aqueduct is a not-for-profit marketplace where the
people and organizations tending
animals and their habitats meet those ready to fund, buy from,
or work alongside them.

Tending takes
many forms.

FOOD
Honoring that everything on every plate comes from something living.MATERIALS
Choosing what things
are made from, and what
that asks of the living world.THE ELEMENTS
Holding land, water,
and sky in trust.CARE
Being present for animals
and what they love.REGENERATION
Learning to sense whether a place calls for our hand, our absence,
or our repair.DESIGN
Making room for every creature
to move, nest, and thrive.What each culture knows
about tending the living world,
made visible to every other.

The founder.

I’m Kari Lyn Dougherty.A life lived
in the company of animals,
in quiet wonder
at the richness of lives
I may never fully enter,
but can choose to honor.Philosophy, Whitman College.
Ethics & International Peace, American University.
Created the first volunteer opportunity on Microsoft.com.Come tend.

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Thank you, Martha Nussbaum, for the vision of animals’ flourishing and our own as one movement, and for giving us a way to recognize it, and the questions to ask of it.∞In honor of Petra, the original Rose City, whose ancient aqueducts carried water toward a desert coming alive.IMAGES
Bird watching me / Cape Lookout
Beaver foraging / Lake Washington
The Aqueduct / Portland Art Museum
Fountain / Taj Falaknuma Palace
Kari Lyn Dougherty / Palo Alto
Bee & Rose / Rose City

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