In a conservation economy,
growth
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‘getting rich slow.’
is about
It is about ensuring that companies and communities profit on the interest, not capital, of nature. That means harvesting trees without destroying the rainforest ecosystem. It means fishing without erasing the very stocks that feed us. It means tapping into energy sources that are clean and renewable. But most of all, a conservation economy is about people — where they live, how they prosper. People, place and profit. That’s the conservation economy.
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Executive letter
A Conscious Economy Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth, has arguably had a more transformative effect on how people think about the environment than any other single event of this generation. Now the hard part starts: turning awareness into action. That’s because “action” is often viewed only through the lens of consumerism. Drive a smarter car, buy a carbon offset, screw in a fluorescent light bulb — all of these actions worthy, but somehow not quite enough. If people — and by extension the governments we elect, and the companies we invest in or work for — all now have a heightened consciousness about the environment, why can’t we have a more conscious economy? Why is there such a yawning gap between the economy we want — one that delivers clean air, clean water, healthy food, good jobs and time to share with families — and an economy that overheats the planet and imperils us all? In a word, investment. With rare exceptions, there is vastly too little capital invested in enterprises that strive not just for a financial return, but for social and environmental returns as well. Without a fundamental shift in how we view money, the gap between what we want and what we get from our economy will continue to grow. As we envision a conservation economy, we realize we are also striving for a conscious economy — one where people invest their money, save their money and, yes, spend their money carefully, intentionally, consciously. At Ecotrust Canada, we take encouragement from Europe’s Triodos Bank, and its vision of the future of finance. “If money makes the world go around, why not turn it in the right direction?” Triodos asks. It champions “conscious investment” in businesses that make a difference, which enables customers and consumers to do so, too. Closer to home, we take heart from the Great Bear Rainforest agreements that have brought new capital to our coast — a conscious effort to invest in conservation and communities. We applaud investments in leadership, as in the selection of Guujaaw, president of the Council of the Haida Nation, as winner of the 2006 Buffett Award for Indigenous Leadership. And we make investments of our own — in the stewardship future of Cougar Annie’s Garden, in new fishing, forestry and energy enterprises, and in our new subsidiary, Ecotrust Canada Capital. As befits an organization whose resources are modest and whose ambitions are boundless, we rely on many partners to achieve our goals. As such, we take comfort from the fact that a lot of people seem to want the same thing we do. A conscious, indeed a conservation economy.
Jacqueline Koerner Chair
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Ian Gill President
hooked on conservation
a thousand-year business plan Conservation doesn’t have to be about stopping logging. Instead, think about a thousand-year business plan that generates value from our forests for generations to come. That’s what ecosystem-based management (EBM) can accomplish. This new eco-forestry approach minimizes the risk to the ecosystem first, and then designs appropriate logging to suit. The rainforest ecosystem remains fully functional after low-impact logging. Ecotrust Canada is a leader in understanding and implementing EBM forestry on the B.C. coast. We have established partnerships in Clayoquot Sound, the Great Bear Rainforest and Whistler to prove that EBM forestry works for communities and conservation.
Groundfish are some of the slowest-growing fish on the B.C. coast. Quillback rockfish have been known to live to 76 years and red snapper to 117 years. A female spiny dogfish reaches reproductive maturity after 19 years. A sustainable fishery of these long-lived species demands the highest conservation standards in the world. In 2006, Ecotrust Canada partnered with a group of Vancouver Island fishermen to found and finance the Pacific Coast Fisheries Conservation Company. This unique enterprise owns fish quota and leases it to member-fishermen to improve their sustainable fishing practices. These hook-and-line fishermen represent a sea change in how we harvest our ocean’s bounty.
growing wisely Nestled between the wet coast and dry interior plateau — a transition zone known as the Sea to Sky corridor — the Lil’wat people are witnessing unprecedented growth in their traditional territory. They receive some eighty referrals for development projects each year. The population in neighbouring Pemberton has ballooned and the region will host the 2010 Winter Olympics. Ecotrust Canada helped the Lil’wat Nation in Mount Currie launch a new Geographic Information Systems or GIS Program to map out the development pressures in their territory. Through GIS and proper planning, the Lil’wat are making more informed decisions about the use of the rivers, lands and wilderness in their territory.
going against the grain Alfred Butterfield and Dali Lin are going against the grain in more ways than one. While most of B.C.’s forest companies are building bigger and faster mills, these two business partners launched TF Sawmill, a small specialty mill in Cumberland that operates at a fraction of the speed of most industrial mills. Its niche is quality, not quantity. As they buck conventional wisdom, TF Sawmill bucks logs differently too. Logs are cut from the inside-out creating highly stable lumber of exceptional appearance. TF Sawmill is just one of the innovative enterprises that Ecotrust Canada financed through our business lending program this year.
06 Program highlights
Business Lending
Real Estate
Transforming progressive ideas into profitable enterprises is at the heart of building a conservation economy. One way we do this is by providing loans to small- and medium-sized enterprises. This year our new subsidiary, Ecotrust Canada Capital, made 15 new loans totaling $1.7 million to entrepreneurs who incorporate ecological values in their operations, and who promote jobs and diversification in rural and Aboriginal communities. Some 354 people were employed in full-time, part-time and seasonal jobs by businesses financed by our lending program in 2006. More than a quarter of our portfolio is made up of Aboriginal entrepreneurs, including a new loan to Taku Wild, a fisheries enterprise owned by the Taku River Tlingit First Nation.
Our work this year centred on feasibility studies for a new administrative building for the Tsleil Waututh Nation in North Vancouver and a downtown redevelopment project for the ‘Na-mgis Nation in Alert Bay. We also produced a study on real estate opportunities in Clayoquot Sound for the Nuu-chah-nulth Central Region Management Board.
GIS & Planning Our work this year shifted in two telling directions in the Great Bear Rainforest on the Central Coast. First, we began working with the Heiltsuk Nation in Bella Bella to implement their land-use plan in two distinct watersheds. Second, modeled on the success of this terrestrial work, the Heiltsuk marine-use planning process completed initial work on the community’s vision, and on data collection and research. Ecotrust Canada also developed the first phase of the Lil’wat’s Indian Reserve plan in Mount Currie and built an electronic catalogue to better manage their geographic information. The catalogue’s innovative software was then shared with the Haida and Heiltsuk. We continued to provide support to the Haida Mapping Office and built a GIS model of biophysical diversity for Haida Gwaii.
Aboriginal Mapping Network Revamped and relaunched, the Aboriginal Mapping Network (AMN) has a bold new look and many new functions including discussion forums, a network user map and job postings. The website is now based on open-source software and allows mappers from British Columbia and around the world to share best practices in Indigenous people’s mapping methodologies. Launched in 1998 as an online resource for local First Nations, the AMN has expanded into a global hub of Aboriginal know-how. From Africa to Ahousat, more than 800 users across six continents have registered with the AMN (see map below). For more information visit www.nativemaps.org.
Aboriginal Mapping Network Worldwide registered users
Tourism For the past 20 years, Peter Buckland has doggedly worked to reclaim Cougar Annie’s Garden and to build the Temperate Rainforest Field Study Centre in Clayoquot Sound. In 1999, he founded the nonprofit Boat Basin Foundation to maintain and operate the 117-acre property located above Hesquiat Harbour 50 km northwest of Tofino. This year Ecotrust Canada became a stewardship partner to help the Foundation deliver research, educational and cultural tourism offerings at the Field Study Centre and historic garden. For more information visit www.boatbasin.org.
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06 Program highlights
Fisheries In partnership with six commercial fishermen, Ecotrust Canada founded and financed the Pacific Coast Fisheries Conservation Company, an innovative business model that promotes community-based fisheries and conservation. The company owns a pool of groundfish quota which its member-fishermen lease at a fair price to better enable them to meet new fisheries conservation rules. The fishermen have also agreed to a “conservation covenant” furthering their commitment to sustainable fishing practices. We are now developing software to improve the efficiency of recording catch and trading quota in B.C.’s integrated groundfish fishery. This year we also worked on marine monitoring programs with the ‘Na-mgis Nation in Alert Bay and Tsleil Waututh Nation in Burrard Inlet, and provided corporate governance advice for Qum’ul Seafoods Inc., a new enterprise launched by the Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group on Vancouver Island.
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Forestry Ecotrust Canada is a leader in developing and implementing ecosystem-based management (EBM) for forestry on the B.C. coast. EBM ensures that the entire forest ecosystem remains fully functional and protected even after logging. This year we signed a landmark contract to manage Iisaak Forest Resources, a First Nations-owned forestry operator in Clayoquot Sound. Certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, Iisaak is one of the pioneers in EBM forestry. Our goal is to meet the highest environmental standards for forestry in the province, increase the value of spin-off benefits to the local communities and boost the company’s financial bottom-line.
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We also partnered with the Heiltsuk Nation to design and implement EBM forestry in their territory in the Great Bear Rainforest, and worked on EBM with the Haida as well. Other projects this year included completing an FSC woodlot plan for the Tsleil Waututh Nation in Indian Arm and a value-added feasibility study for the ‘Na-mgis Nation in Alert Bay. -
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the richest place on earth Cougar Annie’s Garden is rich in tales. Ada Annie Rae-Arthur raised eight children, outlasted four husbands and reportedly shot more than eighty cougars during her seventy years living in the wilds of Clayoquot Sound. This year Ecotrust Canada became a stewardship partner in the Boat Basin Foundation which owns and operates the pioneer heritage site.
Ecotrust Canada 06 Financials*
Summarized Consolidated Statement of Activities and Surplus
Revenues and Assets: 2002–2006
For the year ended December 31, 2006 2006 Unrestricted Temporarily Total restricted
2005
Revenues, gains, and other support Organization grants $ 104,287 $ 172,714 $ 277,001 $ 23,992 Individual contributions 165,464 63,457 228,921 77,889 Foundation contributions 863,638 2,772,826 3,636,464 2,576,217 Other contributions 3,132 74,269 77,401 64,041 Training, cost recovery & other 412,719 – 412,719 443,633 Loan fees and interest 236,919 – 236,919 221,910 1,786,159 3,083,266 4,869,425 3,407,682
$8,000,000 $7,000,000 $6,000,000 $5,000,000 $4,000,000 $3,000,000 $2,000,000 $1,000,000
Satisfaction of program restrictions 1,163,798 (1,163,798) – – 2,949,957 1,919,468 4,869,425 3,407,682
2002
2003
Revenues
2004
2005
2006
Assets
Program Expenditures 2006 Administration & Fundraising 18% Planning & Information Services 15%
Natural Capital Fund 2% Enterprise Fund 2%
Sector Programs 22%
Expenditures Sector Programs Aquaculture 56,233 – 56,233 47,806 Energy 10,841 – 10,841 15,489 Forestry 266,854 – 266,854 268,349 Real Estate 240,601 – 240,601 28,302 Tourism 105,934 – 105,934 200,785 Fisheries 118,759 – 118,759 158,237 General Programs 536,703 – 536,703 485,436 Economic Development 876,010 – 876,010 882,145 Planning and Information Services 539,178 – 539,178 571,109 Administration 222,328 – 222,328 167,045 Fundraising 414,255 – 414,255 402,504 Natural Capital Fund – 84,576 84,576 (7,658) Enterprise Fund 88,416 – 88,416 31,592 3,476,112 84,576 3,560,688 3,251,141 Surplus of (expenditures over revenues) revenue over expenditures
General Programs 15% Economic Development 25%
* Full audited financial statements can be viewed at www.ecotrustcan.org
(526,155) 1,834,892 1,308,737
156,541
Surplus, beginning of year 482,291 3,640,132 4,122,423 3,965,882 (Deficit) surplus, end of year
$ (43,864)
$ 5,475,024
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$ 5,431,160
$ 4,122,423
06 Donors
Board of Directors
Staff
Ecotrust Canada
Kristina Barr, Operations Assistant
Individuals
Brenda Reid-Kuecks
Prata Investments Inc.
Organizations/Government
Anonymous
Nancy Schaub
Cindy Reid
Alchemy Foundation
Don F. Archibald
Robert M. Shaunessy
Heide Reid
Alliance Projects
Kristina Barr
Derek Smith
Susan J. Sadoway
Anonymous
Spencer Beebe
Pieter van Gils
Salon J. Hairstudios
Bullitt Foundation
Leah D. George-Wilson, North Vancouver, BC
Lori Cribbs, Loan Client Account Representative
Betsy & Winslow Bennett
Allan Waisman
Lesley Sheehan
Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Foundation
Ian Gill, Vancouver, BC
Ian Gill, President
Michelle Bonner
Bryan Williams
Ship Shape Carpentry
Connor, Clark & Lunn Foundation
George Butterfield
Michael Woods
Rosalind Shortt
Donner Canadian Foundation
Barry Campbell
Abby Yellen
Yvon Chouinard
James Hume, Calgary, AB
Eva A. Stammer
Ford Foundation
Jane Hennessey, Director of Development & Communications
Neeltje Stavast
The FSC Global Fund
Jacqueline Koerner (Chair), Vancouver, BC
Philip Hogan, Central Coast Planning Analyst
Barbara Strachan
Foundation for Youth
Maureen Lunn, Vancouver, BC
Doug Hopwood, Registered Professional Forester
Studio 103
Government of Canada
David Martin, Vancouver, BC
Jill Sydneysmith
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Steven Tieu
The Illahie Foundation
Susan E. Vasilev
International Development Research Centre
Marika Veysey
Richard Ivey Foundation
Victoria Bug Zoo
The Kahanoff Foundation
Karin Watson
John C. Kerr Family Foundation
Beverley A. Wells
Koerner Foundation
Aveda
Robert Friedman
Mary Biyak
Ian Gill
Blush Salon & Spa
Bill Girard
Brenda Bowes
Ronald Grzywinski
Paul Ceyssens
Yvette Harrison
Chakra Holdings Inc.
Jane Hennessy
Larissa L. Domay
Jean Jordan
Eco-Chic
Gregory J. Kehm
Lisa Edwards
Debbie & Jonathan Klein
Sharon Evans
Jacqueline Koerner
Diane Fryer
Program Related Investments
Rick Kohn
Headwest Designs Ltd.
Calvert Foundation
Lucy Lee
Hana L. Hermanek
Endswell Foundation
Stuart R. Loewen
David Jardine
The Illahie Foundation
Larry & Maureen Lunn
Juliette’s Hair Studio
Maytree Foundation
Sandy Mactaggart
Renee Justesen
Robert McGill
Andrea Lloyd
Monarch Community Fund
David J. Martin
Luna Aveda Concepts Salon
Penny & Peter Pearse Dennis Perry
Alfred Morgan Margaret Oldroyd The Parkers Paul Da Costa Institute Lois D. Peterson
Yvette Harrison, Director of Finance
Endswell Foundation
John R. Evans
Sue Moore
Bill Girard, Investment Manager
Dream Designs
Rhonda Eager
Karen Peachey
Michael Cabrita, IT Administrator
E.D. Sollitt
alternative wares
Tina Masse
Ronald Grzywinski, Chicago, IL
David Bremner, Manager of Grant Development
Lois Slotten
Aveda Earth Month Donors
Paul Ng-Stewart
Spencer B. Beebe (Vice Chair), Portland, OR
Michelle Bonner, Development Associate
Byron Horner, Vancouver, BC
Sandra and Sterling Clarren
Mark R. Munn
A-in-chut (Shawn Atleo), Ahousaht, BC
Working Opportunity Fund
Eric (Ric) Young, Toronto, ON
Jessica Hawkins, CED Project Planner
Greg Kehm, Information Services Manager Dionne Kilian, Credit Manager Rick Kohn, Chief Financial Officer Brenda Kuecks, Director of Community Programs
Ecotrust Canada Capital John Berdes, Ilwaco, WA Dominque Collin, Victoria, BC
Law Foundation of British Columbia
Ian Gill, Vancouver, BC
Lazar Foundation
Bill Young, Toronto, ON
The C.P. Loewen Family Foundation Inc.
Eliana MacDonald, Cartographer / GIS Trainer Jill Morton, Program & Operations Assistant Mark Munn, Development Associate Paul Ng-Stewart, Investment Manager Karen Peachey, Director of Community Programs Marie-Claire Seebohm, Project Services Manager Jen St. Denis, Office Administrator Eric Enno Tamm, Communications Manager
Marisla Foundation
Pieter van Gils, Director of Economic Development
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Mike Vitt, Forestry Program Manager
Moore Family Foundation
Niki Westman, Program & Financial Assistant
Murray-Darling Basin Commission
Nina Winham, Vice-President
Oak Foundation
Abby Yellen, Executive Assistant to the President
Patagonia Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia Rockefeller Brothers Fund Service Canada Social Activist Law Student Association Tides Canada Foundation Vancity Weyerhaeuser Wilburforce Foundation
Kathryn Phillips
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