Gina, the oysters.

And one oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day.

I'll buy you pearls.

So we were inspired by the oyster, but I was also inspired by the life cycle of the oyster.

If he won't, can I?

I don't eat oysters.

(Laughter)

Such a youngster, but you're great at business.

You look so hardworking.

Got it! Please wait just a bit!

There's even pine mushroom and oyster chopped noodles!

If he'll buy me oysters.

Do you think oysters would be too much for the first date?

Basically, New York was built on the backs of oystermen, and our streets were literally built over oyster shells.

Oysters don't agree with me.

Excuse me, sir, may I offer you another dozen oysters?

I've been to Oyster Bay. I never saw an oyster.

Then I'll have the oyster noodles. I want the Bul Nak porridge.

So, albeit a very small creature and very modest, this creature is incredible, because it can agglomerate into these mega reef structures.

And again, it's this incredibly exciting animal.

And finally, how much fun it would be to watch the flupsy parade and cheer on the oyster spats as they go down to the reef.

So now I want to introduce you to my new hero in the global climate change war, and that is the eastern oyster.

And also showing oyster gardening for the community along its edges.

Here we are, back to our hero, the oyster.

One is why isn't it happening now?

And the core idea of oyster tecture is to harness the biological power of mussels, eelgrass and oysters species that live in the harbor and, at the same time, harness the power of people who live in the community towards making change now.

And they become the bedrock of any harbor ecosystem.

We reinterpreted this life cycle on the scale of our sight and took the Gowanus as a giant oyster nursery where oysters would be grown up in the Gowanus, then paraded down in their spat stage and seeded out on the Bayridge Reef.

You can see the eight chambers on the side host little baby oysters and essentially force feed them.

So rather than having 10 oysters, you have 10,000 oysters.

It can grow you can grow it and did I mention? it's quite tasty.

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bull

So the project really addresses these three core issues in a new and exciting way, I think.

The concept was to really knit this rope together and develop this new soft infrastructure for the oysters to grow on.

Fine. Aries.

It's a bull.

It can move from a fertilized egg to a spat, which is when they're floating through the water, and when they're ready to attach onto another oyster, to an adult male oyster or female oyster, in a number of weeks.

Here's the Gowanus future with the oyster rafts on the shorelines the flupsification of the Gowanus.

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But we imagine, with our calculations, that by 2050, you might be able to sink your teeth into a Gowanus oyster.

Finally, oysters can attenuate and agglomerate onto each other and form these amazing natural reef structures.

And this glorious, readily available device is basically a floating raft with an oyster nursery below.

His bread is buttered on both sides.