AqueductGlobal
Animals live full lives. They move freely, form bonds, play and shape their environments. These capabilities aren’t human constructions like rights — they’re biological realities, observable across species. They’re what evolution has given. Flourishing means being able to exercise them.Justice requires that we honor them.Work that honors these capabilities is already happening:- Sanctuaries providing refuge
- Innovators creating materials that do not require animals
- Communities protecting wildlife corridors
- Farmers practicing regenerative agriculture
- Conservation technology monitoring ocean health
And so on...But this work remains scattered — invisible to those who’d support it, disconnected from the economic infrastructure that could sustain it.What’s needed isn’t only more individual effort — it’s infrastructure that transforms isolated work into collective economic power.
We are stewards.
AqueductGlobal is that infrastructure.We’re an online marketplace that channels attention and resources toward animal-friendly and habitat-protecting businesses and projects — making what exists discoverable, turning scattered excellence into economic coherence.We don’t create the work — we reveal the network it’s already forming.This is infrastructure for a parallel market that already exists but can’t yet be found.
We honor twelve Principles of Animal Sovereignty.
The AqueductGlobal marketplace aligns with twelve Principles of Animal Sovereignty, grounded in ten animal capabilities articulated in Martha Nussbaum’s Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility:Life
Bodily Health
Bodily Integrity
Senses, Imagination & Thought
Emotions
Choice
Affiliation
Other Species
Play
Environmental ControlWe add Privacy and Peace as foundational conditions for flourishing.These aren’t aspirations. They’re the threshold for participation.Participants confirm their work actively honors these principles in practice — not someday, but operationally, now. This alignment is our standard for inclusion. It’s how we maintain integrity in our marketplace directory.
All ships rise.
When animal-friendly and habitat-protecting work becomes visible together, something shifts: relationships between them become apparent, and unexpected pathways emerge.A journalist researching material engineering finds an animal-friendly fashion designer in New York. She needs a place to meet for an interview — discovers a vegan dining app through the AqueductGlobal marketplace, books a table.Over their lunch, the fashion designer reveals a local muse: an interior decorator who is also listed on AqueductGlobal and appears on its NYC map.The journalist reaches out, discovers that the decorator’s Holy Grail product is a beautiful, habitat-friendly clay paint made in Santa Fe. She writes about the cascade of connections. Readers in six countries email asking how to source the paint. Three start their own clay paint companies.This is infrastructure as economic engine. Someone with an idea — animal-free materials, habitat-protecting design — can see the market already waiting, aligned customers already gathered.The work doesn’t need to be viable in your local community. Your audience exists online, here, seeking exactly what you’re building.The platform creates conditions for work that wouldn’t otherwise exist — turning ideas into livelihoods, especially when people seek environmentally-sound work that isn’t currently available locally.The platform doesn’t just connect existing work — it reveals the living network it’s already forming and creates space for what’s next to emerge. One entry point becomes many. One discovery generates others. What seemed like scattered initiatives becomes a coherent ecosystem that grows itself.Participants gain visibility they couldn’t achieve alone. Those with ideas but no clear path to market see infrastructure already waiting. Consumers find aligned options wherever they are. Investors identify intervention points. Journalists discover stories. Each connection strengthens the whole.
Our aim is to flourish.
At AqueductGlobal you’ll find the full spectrum of animal-friendly and habitat-protecting work:Material innovation networks that redesign what we make and how we make it — mycelium-based leather produced in repurposed tanneries, biodegradable alternatives to plastic packaging, and the supply chains that distribute them.Habitat protection systems that preserve migration routes and ecological integrity.Sanctuary networks providing refuge and coordinated care.Plant-based supply chain infrastructure connecting farms, processors, distributors, and markets.Conservation technology partnerships tracking environmental and ocean health, identifying gaps, and mobilizing resources.Authors, architects, chefs, engineers, farmers, materials innovators, investors, land stewards, and many others — each in their own world, all working toward the same horizon.When you find one, you discover the network around them: their suppliers, distribution partners, aligned collaborators, and the opportunities waiting to be filled.Find aligned options wherever you are.
We see a world of creatures who are busy being happy.
Not someday, somewhere else — but here, now, through the choices we make and the systems we build.The humans who’ve reorganized how they work to allow animals to flourish are already among us. They’re reworking their disciplines, forging new pathways into the world we see emerging.AqueductGlobal helps you discover who’s building it.Our aim is to flourish — all of us.
“There is perfection for animals.”
The message was simple: there is perfection for animals. The work was figuring out how to help it emerge. The answer: infrastructure that reveals what’s already being built and creates conditions for more.I’m Kari Lyn. I founded AqueductGlobal with a background in tech marketing at Microsoft and a Master’s in Ethics and Peace from American University, where I encountered Martha Nussbaum’s celebrated capabilities approach to justice. This platform builds on the parallel version she developed for animals.Thank you, Martha Nussbaum, for providing a solid foundation for animals — and for recognizing that caring for other species is essential to our own flourishing. 👑
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Bird, Pacific Ocean
“The Aqueduct” William Sartain
Lion & open book, Venice
Birds, Hyderabad
Goddess of Speed, Antigua
Beaver, Lake Washington
Me, Silicon Valley
Bee, The City of Roses
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