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.
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.Support
Discover aligned suppliers, businesses, and projects — whether you’re an individual making daily choices or an institution redirecting procurement.Invest
Direct capital toward businesses and projects that align with living systems.Redirect
Shift your supply chain, resources, or practices toward those honoring animal capabilities.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.Among the many sectors where this tending is already happening are:Food
Sourcing, growing, and preparing food in ways that honor animals and the land.Materials
Redesigning what things are made from — mycelium leather, plant-based textiles, recycled ocean plastics, biodegradable packaging.Land
Preserving and restoring habitat, migration routes, and ecological integrity.Care
Providing refuge, rehabilitation, and coordinated support for animals.Conservation
Tracking ecosystem health, identifying gaps, and mobilizing the resources to address them.Design
Shaping buildings, cities, and systems around the animals we share this world with — including the corridors and bridges that preserve their ability to move freely.Community
Local and regional stewardship — rewilding projects, cleanups, civic initiatives, and the many cultural traditions of caring for the land.
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 attracts guests who come specifically for this.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.Partnership
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.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, 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
Fountain, Taj Falaknuma Palace
Mineral painted walls, Marrakech
Kari, Filoli Gardens
Bee & Rose, The City of Roses
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