Stories

Markets Matter in Designing Solutions to Complex Problems

Feb 11, 2014
There’s a new opportunity to learn how to design to save the world: a $10K scholarship from MFA Design for Social Innovation. Just announced, the scholarship honors the three decades of innovative and inspiring work by Paul Polak to transform traditional approaches to poverty alleviation. Polak, CEO and Founder of Windhorse International, has helped design and launch extremely low-cost products…
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Fish 2.0 Finale: A Real Life “Shark Tank” for Sustainable Seafood

Nov 13, 2013
Eat your hearts out Shark Tank fans. This week, twenty-one entrepreneurs will be pitching their innovative ideas in a competition that actually has to do with marine life—and after months of top-notch business coaching, odds are, these opportunities would drive even Mark Cuban and Co into a funding frenzy. Today is the last day for the two-day…
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What the Future of Fish Can Teach Us about Designing Systems

Feb 20, 2013
Published on February 20th by Core77.com. Read the original article here. When I began my journey to understand global overfishing, I knew that it was a sprawling and complex tangle of intertwining problems touching the spheres of policy, commerce, environment and livelihood. Now, almost five years in, I see its complexity through the stories of people I've met…

Press Release: Future of Fish selected as Finalist for the 2012 Katerva Award

Dec 12, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 12 December 2012 Future of Fish selected as Finalist for the 2012 Katerva Award Katerva names Future of Fish one of the 51 "new ideas that will change our world" Future of Fish has been selected as one of five Finalists in the Food Security category for the 2012 Katerva Award, which…

Press Release: Future of Fish Cohort Member Gets Loan to Expand Sales to College Campuses Nationwide

Oct 04, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 3, 2012 Environmentally and Socially Conscious Seafood Distributor Lands Loan to Expand Sales of Sustainable Fish to College Campuses Nationwide (New York, NY) Future of Fish, a business incubator for ocean-stewarding entrepreneurs, announces the placement of a $250,000 working capital loan with one of its cohort members, Sea to Table, a…