AqueductGlobal

We are stewards.

AqueductGlobal connects you with businesses and projects that honor animal sovereignty — sanctuaries providing refuge, innovators creating animal-free materials, municipalities protecting migration routes. Find aligned options wherever you are.

About AqueductGlobal

In a garden moment, a vision emerged: a world where animals are honored not someday, somewhere else — but here, now, through the choices we make and the systems we build.This platform channels appreciation— both attention and value — toward businesses, projects, and communities creating that world.Join us in honoring what wants to emerge.

Oil on canvas, William Sartain (1843-1924)

AqueductGlobal Directory

We’re sculpting an architecture that makes stewardship visible, celebrated, and economically viable.When you discover a wildlife bridge protecting migration, a materials lab growing leather from fungi, or a coastal community restoring kelp forests — you’re not just making a purchase. You’re participating in a living system of care.As founding participants join, this directory will grow into a thriving ecosystem where conscious consumers, ethical businesses, impact funders, and communities can find each other.

Animal sovereignty

Our work aligns with 12 principles:

LIFE • BODILY HEALTH
BODILY INTEGRITY
SENSES & THOUGHT
EMOTIONS • CHOICE
AFFILIATION • SOVEREIGNTY
PLAY • ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL PRIVACY • PEACE

They are detailed in our participant agreement linked below.

About the Founder

I’m Kari Lyn, and here’s what I see.Lab-grown leather. Wildlife corridors. Sanctuary networks. Plant-based supply chains. Acoustic monitoring systems that track ocean health. Each in their own world, but all aiming toward the same horizon.What struck me wasn’t that this work existed — it was that it existed like stars too far apart to form a constellation.So I stepped back far enough to see the shape.Martha Nussbaum — philosopher, legal theorist, architect of the capabilities approach to justice—gave me the framework. She asked: what does it mean for any creature to flourish? Not what rights we choose to grant, but what capacities nature has evolved over millennia.Life. Bodily health. Bodily integrity. Senses and thought. Emotions. Practical reason. Affiliation. Play. Control over one’s environment.
These aren’t human inventions. They’re biological realities, observable across species. They’re what evolution has given. And they’re what justice calls us to honor.What if we organized ourselves not by industry or product category, but by the capabilities we’re choosing to honor?The materials innovator eliminating animal use and the land trust protecting habitat — they’re expressing the same principle through different craft. Same evolutionary logic, different medium.AqueductGlobal is the architecture that connects this pattern. When you can see how your work relates to someone else’s — how different talents serve the same capabilities — the mosaic becomes visible.Nature responds to our attention. When we honor what evolution has given, momentum builds. We make stewardship economically viable.This is what I’m building:
Infrastructure for the current already moving—so we can see the shape of where we’re going, and build it together.

Become a Founding Participant

Images
Cape Lookout, Tillamook, Oregon
Lake Washington, Seattle, Washington
Antigua, Guatemala
Venice, Italy
Pearl district, Portland, Oregon
“The Aqueduct” William Sartain (1843-1924)