Jim is Adventure Capitalist for Ecotrust - a hybrid organization of more than two-dozen nonprofit and for-profit entities collectively working to improve environmental, social, and economic wellbeing in the Pacific Northwest bioregion. He works to develop and implement the strategy for deployment of the Ecotrust’s financial capital on behalf of the organization’s core programmatic initiatives, through enterprises and institutions that express our longing for creativity, resilience, inter-generational security, and community.
Jim has also been a professional river guide and naturalist for over 20 years, working in North America, China, Chile, and New Zealand. During this time, he has written and produced a number of related television documentaries, most recently for PBS’s “Nature” series.
As a Trustee of a charitable foundation, Jim has led a 15-year process of divestment and investment that is re-aligning the institution’s investments with its mission, ensuring that all capital is deployed in service of the larger public purpose. More broadly, Jim is active in the formal and informal networks working to promote a reconsideration of the relationship between investment and philanthropy.
Through these various engagements, Jim appreciates that trial and error underpins all life. A new economy, one that restores nature and invests in people, will also result from bold experimentation - the many trial and successes emerging from individuals, organizations, businesses, government agencies, and an increasingly well-informed public constituency collaborating to re-imagine, and re-make, our world.
Jim received a B.S. in biology (Bowdoin College), but prefers the BS around campfires (everywhere).
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