Bren Smith
Bren Smith is an aquaculture professional and former commercial fisherman, best known for pioneering Regenerative Ocean Farming via co-founding the non-profit GreenWave.
Born in Maddox Cove, Newfoundland, Canada, Smith left school aged 14 to become a commercial fisherman, plying his trade in the Grand Banks and the Bering Sea.[1][2] Having left the commercial fishing and subsequently the fish farming industries, he founded the Thimble Island Ocean Farm, on the Thimbles Islands in Long Island Sound, before co-founding GreenWave to promote the co-existent aquaculture of kelp and shellfish by local communities.
Smith gave one of the two 35th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lectures, organised by the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, entitled Ecological Redemption: Ocean Farming in the Era of Climate Change.[3]
Smith graduated from Cornell Law School.[4]
Awards
In 2015, Smith won the Buckminster Fuller Challenge prize for the GreenWave design.[5] In 2017, he was named by Rolling Stone as one of its 25 People Shaping the Future.[6] Also in 2017, the GreenWave 3D Farm was named one of Time's 25 Best Inventions of 2017.[7] In 2019, his semi-autobiographical work Eat Like A Fish, published by Penguin Random House, won a James Beard Foundation Book Award.[8]
Books
Eat Like A Fish - My adventures as a fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer, 2019, Vintage Books[4]
References
- ^ "About the author: Bren Smith". Penguin Random House. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Rose, Hilary (15 October 2019). "The ocean farmer who says the sea can save the planet". The Times. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
- ^ "Ecological Redemption: Ocean Farming in the Era of Climate Change". Schumacher Center for a New Economics. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b Smith, Bren (2019). Eat Like A Fish - My adventures as a fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer. Vintage Books. ISBN 9780451494542.
- ^ "Vertical ocean farms that can feed us and help our seas". TED conference. 26 July 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "25 People Shaping the Future in Tech, Science, Medicine, Activism and More". Rolling Stone. 17 November 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "The 25 Best Inventions of 2017". Time. 16 November 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
- ^ "The 2020 James Beard Media Awards". James Beard Foundation. 17 November 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
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