Cascadia Seaweed Achieves Higher B Corp Score, Reinforcing Commitment to Climate Action, Indigenous Partnerships, and Sustainable Agriculture
Cascadia Seaweed, a Canadian AgTech innovator, has been re-certified as a B Corp with an improved overall score of 113.5, up from 90.4 in 2022.
The milestone underscores the company’s continued leadership in corporate responsibility and sustainable solutions, including meaningful collaborations with Indigenous communities, an area of global focus amid COP30 discussions.
Cascadia Seaweed’s journey to B Corp reflects a multi-year commitment to rigorous social and environmental standards.
Since beginning the B Corp Impact Assessment in 2021, the Company has navigated a thorough verification process, including evaluations of its relationships with First Nations partners, emissions calculations, and governance practices.
Cascadia first became a registered Benefit Company and achieved B Corp certification in 2022, and has since published annual public Benefit Reports.
Becoming a B Corp is a rigorous, third-party process that evaluates a company’s impact on workers, communities, customers, and the environment, and is reevaluated every three years.
Founded in 2019, Cascadia Seaweed transforms cultivated seaweed—one of the planet’s most sustainable ocean crops—into high-quality agricultural solutions. The Company produces biostimulants that help farmers increase yields, reduce emissions, and improve nutrient-use efficiency, delivering benefits from the ocean to the soil to the farmer’s yield.
Beyond agricultural products, Cascadia leverages its expertise to advance seaweed as a nature-based solution, supporting kelp restoration, deploying AI-powered biodiversity monitoring tools, driving innovative engineering solutions, and fostering equitable seaweed supply chains under the Cascadia Nature-based Solutions (CNbS) business line.
“Maintaining our B Corp certification is not just a badge, it’s a lens through which we examine all of our decisions, from office operations to large-scale contracting,” said Michael Williamson, CEO of Cascadia Seaweed. “Our partnerships with coastal First Nations are central to this approach, ensuring that the social and environmental benefits of our work are shared and mutually reinforcing.”
Cascadia is conducting lifecycle analysis research on its biostimulant products. Early results indicate improved nutrient-use efficiency on terrestrial farms, allowing farmers to reduce synthetic fertilizer applications while maintaining yields. These downstream practices demonstrate the principles of the circular economy, while supporting upstream economic reconciliation with First Nations communities. The Company is further advancing transparent reporting by collaborating with the UBC Sauder School of Business to calculate scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.
As a certified B Corp and registered Benefit Company, Cascadia Seaweed is committed to creating lasting value for Indigenous partners, shareholders, and the planet, showing that innovation, profitability, community well-being, and environmental stewardship can coexist.
