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Resources
and Video
Zita Cobb is inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame (2021)
Zita Cobb delivers a talk on "What Art has to do with the Price of Fish: Community Economics" (2021)
Zita Cobb: Design in Service of Place: Community Business on Fogo Island (2019)
An initiative of Shorefast, The Floret is a platform for stories (2019)
Zita Cobb, Social Entrepreneur, EG13 (2019)
PLACE Model of Community Development (2019)
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
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
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
Press