Fly fishing for tarpon has taught me many lessons, both personally and professionally. For example, fishing taught me that everything in nature is interconnected. Just as a palolo worm, a hungry tarpon, a flats ecosystem, and the moon phase are connected, so are our businesses and our planet. The understanding that all of nature, and…
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Protect What You Love
I started my company to protect what I love, which is Emerger Strategies’ purpose. As a passionate angler who fell in love with nature through fly fishing, I quickly discovered that pollution, climate change, and habitat degradation were posing significant risks to our fisheries. I am also witnessing in real-time and sea-level rise, plastic pollution,…
Measure & Reduce Your Company’s Carbon Footprint to Protect What You Love
If you have been paying attention the news lately, you know that the effects of climate change are being felt everywhere, but especially in our oceans. As an angler, I care deeply about the impact of climate change on all marine species and I founded my company to protect what I love. In fact, I…
RepYourWater Releases 2022 Sustainability Report
RepYourWater was one of our very first clients, and I am super proud of what we have accomplished since we started working together in 2016. Corinne and Garrison are as authentic as any two people I have met, and every sustainability initiative they have executed has been done for no other reason than because it’s…
In the News: Carbon Neutral Sportfishing Boat
I was thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Wes Carter, who is president of Atlantic Packaging and founder of A New Earth Project, on making his boat, The Stream Weaver, the world’s first carbon neutral sportfishing boat. In the Bite magazine interviewed Wes and me and you can read the article in the…
Zachary Davis becomes North Carolina’s 1st Carbon Neutral Guide
Everywhere on the planet, trout need cold, clean, oxygen-rich water to survive and climate change is an obvious threat to all cold-water species. In fact, according to a 2020 report by the NC Institute for Climate Science, by 2060, Western North Carolina will likely see 10-20 more days a year when temperatures are above 95…