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News & Ideas
Calendar of
Events
Resources
and Video
Canadian Business Hall of Fame
Zita Cobb is inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame (2021)
Beacon Lecture - Trinity College Dublin
Zita Cobb delivers a talk on "What Art has to do with the Price of Fish: Community Economics" (2021)
Service Design Global Conference
Zita Cobb: Design in Service of Place: Community Business on Fogo Island (2019)
The Floret
An initiative of Shorefast, The Floret is a platform for stories (2019)
EG Conference
Zita Cobb, Social Entrepreneur, EG13 (2019)
Memorial University Centre for Social Enterprise
PLACE Model of Community Development (2019)
Community Newsletter
Shorefast Community Newsletter Summer 2018 (PDF) (2018)
Retelling: A Conversation with Zita Cobb
Zita Cobb in conversation with Joel R. Burton, a PhD Candidate in English at Western University (2017)
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)
McGill University Honourary Doctorate
Zita Cobb honourary doctorate acceptance speech at McGill University, Montreal (2016)
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)
D3 Conference
Zita Cobb presentation at D3 conference in Toronto (2014)
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)
Outport Journey at UNB Pond Deshpande
Zita Cobb's presentation at the Social Enterprise Development Dialogue (2013)
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)
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)
PURE Life Experiences Conference
Zita Cobb presentation at PURE Life Experiences; major hospitality conference in Marrakech, Morocco (2015)
Strange & Familiar: Architecture on Fogo Island
Documentary highlighting Shorefast’s contemporary buildings on Fogo Island, designed by architect Todd Saunders (2014)
Carleton University Convocation Address
Zita Cobb received an honourary doctorate from Carleton University and gave the convocation address (2013)
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)
The Way Forward: Fogo Island Shorefast Foundation: Zita Cobb
Zita Cobb delivers a talk at TEDxFortTownshend (2012)
Reading list
Non-Fiction
Small is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher
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
The Real World of Technology by Ursula Franklin
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
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
Community by Peter Block
Collaborating with the Enemy by Adam Kahane
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
Fiction
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
By The Rivers of Brooklyn by Trudy Morgan-Cole
The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Press
Shorefast Press (pdf)
Fogo Island Inn Press (pdf)
Fogo Island Workshops Press (pdf)
Fogo Island Arts Press (pdf)
Fogo Island Fish Press (pdf)
New Ocean Ethic Press (pdf)
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