Aqueduct
Come tend.
Aqueduct is a new kind of global marketplace — built for everyone ready to move toward right relationship with animals and their habitats.Nature gives each creature specific capabilities: what they can do, how they move, what they build, how they love. These capabilities are what Aqueduct is built to honor — and the perspective shift from which more conscious choices flow.This is already happening within sanctuaries, innovative companies, land stewardship efforts, scientific communities, families. What’s been missing is the infrastructure to find it, join it, amplify it — and invite more. That’s what we’re building.
We see a world where creatures are busy
being happy.
Not someday, somewhere else — but here, now, through the choices we make and the systems we build.At Aqueduct you can find the products, services, businesses, makers, researchers, and stewards already living this — locally and globally — and the resources, partnerships, and possibilities that open when they come together.
Aqueduct flows
resources to purpose.
Together, we’re building an economy of appreciation — where honoring the beauty, vitality, and essence of other species becomes how we all thrive.There are five ways to participate: provide, patronize, invest, redirect, and collaborate.Provide
Offer products, services, or expertise that honor animals and their habitats to the Aqueduct community.Patronize
Discover and support businesses and projects already doing this work.Invest
Aqueduct is the channel — direct capital toward businesses and projects that align with living systems.Redirect
Shift existing resources, supply chains, or practices toward those honoring animal capabilities.Collaborate
Find partners, researchers, and communities working toward the same goals.Among the many areas where this tending is already happening are:Material networks
Redesigning materials and production — mycelium leather, plant-based textiles, biodegradable packaging, and more.Habitat protection
Preserving migration routes and ecological integrity.Sanctuary networks
Providing refuge and coordinated care.Plant-based supply chains
Connecting farms, processors, distributors, and markets.Conservation technology
Tracking the health of ecosystems and waterways, identifying gaps, and mobilizing partnerships and resources.
Aqueduct opens
stewardship everywhere.
Among the possibilities:A hotelier discovers that plant-based cuisine, native habitat landscaping tended by quiet gardening practices, mineral clay paints, and waterway-safe cleaning products create guest experiences where caring and beauty are the same thing. Through Aqueduct she finds the suppliers who make this possible, supports their work, and attracts guests who come specifically for this.A parent finds that the everyday choices their family already makes — what they eat, wear, clean with, how they spend their time together — can all move toward honoring animals and their habitats. Aqueduct makes what exists findable, and as they explore, they discover makers and experiences they wouldn’t have known to look for. Their choices, gathered with others’, become visible demand — and visible demand calls new supply into being.A bat house maker turns a backyard craft into a viable livelihood — discovered by land managers nearby, then by stewards across the state and beyond.Athletic wear companies partner through Aqueduct to coordinate coastal restoration — promoting community events, mobilizing volunteers for beach cleanups, funding dive teams, and processing ocean waste into new products. The restoration becomes a celebration: visible, shared, and a genuine expression of what these brands stand for.A wildlife corridor scientist has documented the routes animals depend on — and the gaps that stop them. Through Aqueduct she finds the landowners, developers, municipalities, and funders already oriented toward the same goal, turning research into corridors that actually get built.
The founder.
I’m Kari Dougherty. I’ve seen what happens when information, talent, and shared interest are given a channel — and how quickly that becomes opportunity, income, and the satisfaction of right relationship. I’m building Aqueduct to make animal- and habitat-friendly choices simple and findable — anywhere, every day — by turning the tools we already use globally into a spotlight on the people and businesses already doing this work, and creating the conditions for it to grow.Working at Microsoft gave me a sense of authorship — how to flow resources through language, incentive, and internet architecture. A Master’s in Ethics & International Peace from American University introduced me to the intersection of ethics and economics — and to a framework for measuring flourishing, adaptable to any society, that its author later extended to animals — giving the vision a spine. And a life spent in the charming company of animals made one thing clear: To care for them is to care for everything they’re part of. That made this irresistible.
Thank you, Martha Nussbaum, for helping us recognize that our flourishing and theirs are one movement.
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Images
Bird watching me, Cape Lookout
Beaver foraging, Lake Washington
The Aqueduct, Portland Art Museum
Mineral painted walls, Marrakech
Kari, Palo Alto
Bee & Rose, The City of Roses
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