Ecological Redemption: Ocean Farming in the Era of Climate Change

Ecological Redemption: Ocean Farming in the Era of Climate Change

by Hildegarde Hannum and Bren Smith
Publication Date: 17/02/2016

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The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.


When the cod stocks crashed back home in Newfoundland, Bren Smith, a fisherman working at the height of the period of industrialized food, found himself on the front lines of the world's climate crisis. He soon began a search for sustainability, and in this lecture he shares his story of ecological redemption. Smith is the founder of the nonprofit GreenWave, which won the 2015 Buckminster Fuller Challenge for sustainability. Smith is creating a hub for the new 3D ocean-farming industry, which will act as an engine for job creation and food justice. He explains that ocean farming will address major issues such as overfishing and climate change while building the foundation for a new blue-green economy and transforming fishermen into restorative ocean farmers.

ISBN:
1230000952316
1230000952316
Category:
Oceanography (seas)
Publication Date:
17-02-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Schumacher Center for a New Economics
Bren Smith

Bren Smith is a former commercial fisherman turned ocean farmer who pioneered the development of restorative 3D ocean farming. Born and raised in Newfoundland, he left high school at the age of 14 to work on fishing boats from the Grand Banks to the Bering Sea.

His writing has appeared in The New York Times, National Geographic and The Atlantic. His ocean farm won the Buckminster Fuller Challenge for ecological design and, in 2017, was named one of Time magazine's Best Inventions.

He is the owner of Thimble Island Ocean Farm and executive director of the nonprofit Green Wave, which trains new ocean farmers.

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