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Join Fogo Island Arts for a talk by artist Yannik Herter December 4th at Fogo Island Inn cinema. Event begins at 6:30pm; all are welcome.
Join Fogo Island Arts for a talk by artist Yannik Herter December 4th at Fogo Island Inn cinema. Event begins at 6:30pm; all are welcome.
Resources
and Video
Shorefast Community Newsletter Summer 2018 (PDF) (2018)
Zita Cobb in conversation with Joel R. Burton, a PhD Candidate in English at Western University (2017)
The Fogo Island shop is an exercise in the preservation of culture through artistry and entrepreneurship (2017)
Zita Cobb honourary doctorate acceptance speech at McGill University, Montreal (2016)
Fogo Island Inn is a refuge, on an island, off an island, on one of the four corners of the Earth (2015)
Zita Cobb presentation at D3 conference in Toronto (2014)
CBC Ideas host Paul Kennedy takes a tour of Fogo Island with Zita Cobb (2013)
Zita Cobb's presentation at the Social Enterprise Development Dialogue (2013)
Shorefast Community Newsletter Summer/Fall 2017 (PDF) (2017)
Zita Cobb presentation at UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in Vancouver (2017)
National Film Board (NFB) film highlighting Fogo Island Fish, and the connection between the people of Fogo Island and the cod (2016)
Zita Cobb presentation at PURE Life Experiences; major hospitality conference in Marrakech, Morocco (2015)
Documentary highlighting Shorefast’s contemporary buildings on Fogo Island, designed by architect Todd Saunders (2014)
Zita Cobb received an honourary doctorate from Carleton University and gave the convocation address (2013)
A featured presentation at the Adventure Travel World Summit held by the Adventure Travel Trade Association (2013)
Zita Cobb delivers a talk at TEDxFortTownshend (2012)
Reading list
Non-Fiction
Small is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher
Becoming Human by Jean Vanier
Prosperity Without Growth by Tim Jackson
Culture in a Liquid Modern World by Zygmunt Bauman
The Necessary Revolution by Peter Senge
Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein
Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
Toward Sustainable Communities by Mark Roseland
This is Water by David Foster Wallace
Cod by Mark Kurlansky
Dictionary of Newfoundland English
The Dismal Science by Stephen A. Marglin
Resilience by Andrew Zolli
Economics of Good and Evil by Tomas Sedlacek
Salt by Mark Kurlansky
Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara by Tim Robinson
The Solution Revolution by William D. Eggers & Paul MacMillan
The Big Oyster by Mark Kurlansky
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
The World Beyond Your Head by Matthew B. Crawford
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
A Guide for the Perplexed by E. F. Schumacher
Fiction
A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland
The Possibility of an Island by Michel Rouellebecq
February by Lisa Moore
Hard Light by Michael Crummey
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
The Navigator of New York by Wayne Johnston
Salka Valka by Halldor Laxness
The Big Why by Michael Winter
Sweetland by Michael Crummey
The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Wayfinders by Wade Davis
By The Rivers of Brooklyn by Trudy Morgan-Cole
Press
Last Word: Zita Cobb (PDF) (2018)
Sustainable Tourism for Development on Fogo Island (2017)
A Label to Show Where the Money Goes (PDF) (2017)
Reimagining Fogo Island: Zita Cobb's Inspirational Journey (2017)
Geology on the Edge: Fogo Island’s geologist-in-residence program big draw for alumni (2016)
Big questions of human progress play out in small places (2014)
Fogo Island, Canada: Tales of the Unexpected (2014)
Entrepreneurship (video) (2013)
For the love of place (PDF) (2018)
'For all of us': Zita Cobb of Fogo Island Inn accepts Order of Canada honour (2017)
Society of United Fishermen's Hall on Barr'd Island back to life (2016)
The Big Idea: Canada’s rural areas are in decline, one woman has a solution (2014)
What we can learn from the 10 biggest wins and losses of the year (item #9) (2013)
Architecture & Art (video) (2013)
How Multimillionaire Zita Cobb Plans to Turn Tiny Canadian Island Into an Arts Mecca (2012)
Fogo Island Inn
The Top 100 Hotels in the World (#12) (2017)
Can an Inn Save Newfoundland’s Fogo Island (2014)
Fogo Island Inn Puts Newfoundland on the Luxury Map (2014)
This Is The Most Remote And Magical Hotel On Earth (2016)
Why A Tiny Canadian Island Should Be Your Next Vacation Destination (2014)
The Possibility of an Island (2012)
Fogo Island Shop
Fogo Island Shop uses "nutrition labelling" to reveal true cost of making its furniture (2017)
Canada 150: 30 Canadian Product Designers Leading the Charge (2017)
Uncrate Canada: Crafting a Future (2017)
The Ultimate Hotel Souvenir: Home Décor (2017)
Fogo Island Arts
Augustas Serapinas: In the Studio (2017)
Wilfrid Almendra “Light Boiled Like Liquid Soap” at Fogo Island Arts, Fogo Island (2016)
Fogo Island Fish
Canadian Fish for Canadians – Introducing Fogo Island Fish (2017)
CBC News: How Toronto chefs got hooked on fish from Fogo Island (2016)
A Newfoundland fish story that's delicious and inspiring (2016)
New Ocean Ethic
"Prepared for a Petrol Spill: Fogo Island Fish Harvesters Trained to Deploy Oil Boom" (2016)
Cod pot fishing method a hit with Fogo Island fishermen, chefs (2014)
End Of Plastic Grocery Bags On Fogo Island (2015)
Saving Fogo and Change Islands (2014)
New Ocean Ethic; Citizen science on the horizon (2014)
Canada Ocean Lecture Series (2014)
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