The ship is in the last phase of a major rebuild. Docked in Rosés, Spain, the ferrocement hull exterior has been completed and now needs to be painted and moved to another area of the dock for completion. Thank you for your consideration to support this effort to get this project back into the ocean, sailing to new cultures, mapping the health of the seas, and educating a new generation of Sea People.
Over the course of its twelve epic expeditions, the ship has been a nautical home to hundreds of seafarers from all walks of life, hailing from over fifty countries. The Heraclitus is a floating platform for arts, science, ecology and adventure. She conducts conservation research and action missions and works to protect ecosystem biodiversity and document the quickening cycle of decline in our oceans from ocean warming, acidification, sea-level rise and extreme weather patterns.
The Eden in Iraq Wastewater Garden team at the project site in El Chibaish with the pipe from the sewage switch plant which will fill our site growing marsh plants. It currently is discharging this untreated, raw sewage into the marshes, as it did into the Euphrates River, endangering human health and the environment.
We are pleased to serve as a fiscal sponsor for the rebuilding of the Research Vessel Heraclitus. First built by Ecotechnics in 1975, the vessel is well on its way toward completion of a total rebuild in Spain.
We are pleased to serve as a corporate fiscal sponsor to Synergetic Press, a mission driven independent press publishing scholarly books in high costs of publishing books in these emerging fields.
