The conservation economy: A new kind of capitalism | Vancouver Sun

By Gordon Hamilton:

There’s a new kind of capitalism sprouting in the British Columbia rainforest, small and focused on the environment as much as the economy, growing in the places where forest companies once reigned.

It’s called the conservation economy. It’s not big industry, and it’s not save-the-trees environmentalism. It’s a third way of approaching the ecological riches of the B.C. coast, investing in small, local and sustainable ventures that often can’t get through the front door of Canada’s mainstream financial institutions.

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