#Sargassum, #invasive, sewage-scented #seaweed piling up on beaches across Caribbean, isn’t something most people look upon kindly. But for Omar de Jesús Vazquez Sánchez, his first encounter was “love at first sight.” “Everyone said, ‘It smells horrible!’ and I remember thinking, ‘There’s something more here,’” says Mr. Vazquez, the founder of #Sargablock, a small company in #Mexico’s #YucatánPeninsula that transforms the algae into #construction# blocks.https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2023/0419/The-world-sees-invasive-seaweed.-This-gardener-sees-housing-bricks #ClimateCrisis