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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…

CharitySub, a subscription-model fundraising organization, has selected Future of Fish as a featured nonprofit within the larger topic of sustainable seafood, the organization's cause for September. CharitySub subscribers pledge $5 a month, and each month, they vote on which of the three hand-selected featured nonprofits gets the aggregated sum of their subscription money. Each month…

Journalist Rob Walker and semiotics analyst Joshua Glenn undertook a fascinating experiment recently to see whether story changes the value of an object. They collected an assortment of 100 yard sale oddities, purchased for an average of $1.25 each, and then asked notable writers to invent fictional histories for the items. Even though the descriptions…

SAN FRANCISCO, California — May 7, 2012 — Future of Fish, led by founder and executive director Cheryl Dahle, has been selected as one of only four Finalists for the 2012 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, the prestigious annual design science competition named "Socially-Responsible Design's Highest Award" by Metropolis Magazine. The Challenge awards $100,000 to support the…

A recent editorial in The Economist would have us believe that of all the problems facing the oceans—acidification, plastics pollution, decline of habitat—overfishing is the easy win, the simple fix. Really, the article argues, this whole overfishing mess is the fault of fishermen. If fishers would just wise-up to the long-term environmental consequences of taking too much, they would…