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Annual Christmas Tree Lighting at Fogo Island Inn

Join Fogo Island Inn for the annual Christmas tree lighting on Sunday, December 22. Meet at Fogo Island Inn Lobby at 5:00pm for hot chocolate, cookies, and Christmas carols, followed by the tree lighting. Free & all are welcome.

Annual Christmas Tree Lighting at Fogo Island Inn

Join Fogo Island Inn for the annual Christmas tree lighting on Sunday, December 22. Meet at Fogo Island Inn Lobby at 5:00pm for hot chocolate, cookies, and Christmas carols, followed by the tree lighting. Free & all are welcome.

Retelling: A Conversation with Zita Cobb

Zita Cobb in conversation with Joel R. Burton, a PhD Candidate in English at Western University (2017)

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And Nowhere Else | Fogo Island: Fogo Island Shop

The Fogo Island shop is an exercise in the preservation of culture through artistry and entrepreneurship (2017)

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McGill University Honourary Doctorate

Zita Cobb honourary doctorate acceptance speech at McGill University, Montreal (2016)

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Fogo Island Inn - Escape from the numbing uniformity of modern times

Fogo Island Inn is a refuge, on an island, off an island, on one of the four corners of the Earth (2015)

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D3 Conference

Zita Cobb presentation at D3 conference in Toronto (2014)

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CBC Ideas with Paul Kennedy – Back To the Future In Fogo

CBC Ideas host Paul Kennedy takes a tour of Fogo Island with Zita Cobb (2013)

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Outport Journey at UNB Pond Deshpande

Zita Cobb's presentation at the Social Enterprise Development Dialogue (2013)

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Community Newsletter

Shorefast Community Newsletter Summer/Fall 2017 (PDF) (2017)

University of British Columbia

Zita Cobb presentation at UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in Vancouver (2017)

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Hand. Line. Cod.

National Film Board (NFB) film highlighting Fogo Island Fish, and the connection between the people of Fogo Island and the cod (2016)

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PURE Life Experiences Conference

Zita Cobb presentation at PURE Life Experiences; major hospitality conference in Marrakech, Morocco (2015)

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Strange & Familiar: Architecture on Fogo Island

Documentary highlighting Shorefast’s contemporary buildings on Fogo Island, designed by architect Todd Saunders (2014)

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Carleton University Convocation Address

Zita Cobb received an honourary doctorate from Carleton University and gave the convocation address (2013)

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Zita Cobb Keynote 2013 Adventure Travel World Summit

A featured presentation at the Adventure Travel World Summit held by the Adventure Travel Trade Association (2013)

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The Way Forward: Fogo Island Shorefast Foundation: Zita Cobb

Zita Cobb delivers a talk at TEDxFortTownshend (2012)

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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

The Wayfinders by Wade Davis

A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland

Hard Light by Michael Crummey

This Is Marketing by Seth Godin

The Abundant Community by John McKnight & Peter Block

The Real World of Technology by Ursula Franklin

Start with Why by Simon Sinek

Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordon Mackenzie

Mindset by Carol Dweck

Life Is What You Make It by Peter Buffett

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

Dare to Lead by Brene Brown

Community by Peter Block

Collaborating with the Enemy by Adam Kahane

21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

Fiction

The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq

The Possibility of an Island by Michel Rouellebecq

February by Lisa Moore

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

News & Ideas

Annual Christmas Tree Lighting at Fogo Island Inn

Annual Christmas Tree Lighting at Fogo Island Inn

The Floret

EG Conference

Memorial University Centre for Social Enterprise

Community Newsletter

Retelling: A Conversation with Zita Cobb

And Nowhere Else | Fogo Island: Fogo Island Shop

McGill University Honourary Doctorate

Fogo Island Inn - Escape from the numbing uniformity of modern times

D3 Conference

CBC Ideas with Paul Kennedy – Back To the Future In Fogo

Outport Journey at UNB Pond Deshpande

Community Newsletter

University of British Columbia

Hand. Line. Cod.

PURE Life Experiences Conference

Strange & Familiar: Architecture on Fogo Island

Carleton University Convocation Address

Zita Cobb Keynote 2013 Adventure Travel World Summit

The Way Forward: Fogo Island Shorefast Foundation: Zita Cobb

Shorefast Press (pdf)

Fogo Island Inn Press (pdf)

The Woodshop on Fogo Island Press (pdf)

Fogo Island Arts Press (pdf)

Fogo Island Fish Press (pdf)

New Ocean Ethic Press (pdf)