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 orientation from which a different kind of economy becomes possible.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.
Participation takes five forms: provide, support, invest, redirect, and collaborate.Provide
Whether you’re an established business or bringing something new to market, offer products, services, or expertise that honor animals and their habitats. Any meaningful step in this direction earns you a place here - and an audience looking for what you offer.Support
Discover aligned suppliers, businesses, and projects - whether you’re an individual making daily choices or an institution redirecting procurement.Invest
Put capital to work for flourishing - in businesses and projects where profit and the health of animals and habitats move together.Redirect
Shift your supply chain, resources, or practices toward those honoring animal capabilities. Where a full shift is possible, the marketing advantage is complete. Partial steps are honored and visible. And where aligned options don’t yet exist, Aqueduct carries your request to suppliers - making your demand part of what calls new supply into being.Collaborate
Connect with partners, researchers, and communities already moving in this direction.
Tending takes
many forms.
Together, we’re building an economy of appreciation - where honoring the beauty, vitality, and essence of other species becomes how we all thrive. And across cultures and geographies, the forms this tending takes are as varied and alive as the world itself.Among the many sectors where this tending is already happening are:Food
How we grow it, source it, and prepare it touches every living thing. Tending here changes everything downstream.Materials
What things are made from is a choice - and one of the most exciting creative frontiers open to designers, makers, and innovators right now.Land, Sea, and Air
Every creature needs somewhere to be and somewhere to go. Tending here - preserving habitat, restoring corridors, protecting the integrity of living landscapes, waterways, and skies - is among the most consequential work of our time.Care
The most personal form of tending - safe harbor, rehabilitation, and the daily work of being present for animals and what they love.Conservation
The science, advocacy, and field work that tells us what the living world needs - and channels the response.Design
Shaping buildings, cities, systems, and the objects of daily life around the animals we share this world with. When their ability to move, nest, and thrive becomes part of the brief, design gets more interesting.Community
Where individual tending becomes collective. Rewilding projects, cleanups, civic initiatives, and the many cultural traditions of caring for the land - each more powerful when visible and connected to others doing the same.
Aqueduct opens
stewardship everywhere.
Among the possibilities:Hospitality
A hotelier discovers that plant-based cuisine, 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 finds that guests who come for this don’t just return. They belong.Community
A parent finds that their family’s everyday choices - what they eat, wear, use, and do together - can all move toward honoring animals and their habitats.Their choices, gathered with others’, become visible demand - and visible demand calls new supply into being.Habitat
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. No team required. No credentials. Just craft and care, made visible.Partnership
A company wants to do something meaningful for a coastline. Through Aqueduct it finds the organizations, suppliers, and community members already oriented the same way - and reaches the many others who simply love that stretch of beach and water.What starts as an intention becomes an event. Volunteers, cleanup crews, local vendors, people who just wanted to help. The restoration becomes a party. The party becomes a culture. And somewhere on the other side of the world, another community sees it and thinks - we want that too.Conservation
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. Once I saw this possibility clearly, everything pointed here.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 - one its creator later extended to animals, giving this 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
Fountain, Taj Falaknuma Palace
Mineral painted walls, Marrakech
Kari, Filoli Gardens
Bee & Rose, The City of Roses
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