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Message from President & Chair of the Board From businesspeople to authors, urban planners to foresters, interns to engineers: there are many people, from many walks of life, who could tell you how Island Press has made a difference for them. That is why you will find this year’s annual report full of their voices.

Charles C. Savitt, President Decker Anstrom, Chair

The following stories come directly from the people who As you peruse the following pages, we hope you find the have read our books and participated in our programs. stories featured interesting and enjoyable. We also invite Their stories show how people have taken the ideas you to consider your own Island Press story: What was it that curated by Island Press and used them as tools for first connected you to Island Press? How have you seen our problem-solving in the world. Their stories show what mission making a difference in the world? We believe there our mission, to provide the best ideas and information in are as many stories of Island Press making a difference the field to those seeking to understand and protect the as there are readers of our books and participants in our environment and create solutions to its complex problems, programs: impact happens in different sizes and shapes. looks like in action. And their stories show what your We sincerely thank you for making that impact possible. support of Island Press makes possible. We are so glad you have chosen to be a part of our work. Within, you will also find a number of highlights from our last year. In 2012, we committed to expanding our publishing and program work on urban sustainability and resilience; Charles C. Savitt, President Decker Anstrom, Chair converted the majority of our previously published books to Island Press Board of Directors e-books; and launched new programs and partnerships to extend the reach of the ideas in our books and ensure that those ideas are translated into action.

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H. Bruce Franklin “They’re publishing books Author of The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America (2007) and The John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies, Rutgers University–Newark they believe in, books that match their mission, in The Most Important Fish in the Sea: entire experience of my relationship with Menhaden and America is my nineteenth Island Press. Here you have an organization order to change reality.” book. This is a major story, not just about that’s not just publishing books; they’re natural history but the role of menhaden in publishing books they believe in, books American political, economic, and cultural that match their mission, in order to change history. I was steered to Island Press as the reality. If I knew someone writing an ideal publisher, and I’ve worked with many environmental book that has potential to other publishers in the past, but I could make some real impact, I would say to that have not have been more pleased by the author, get it to Island Press.

Jason Oh “Now we are translating Research Scientist, National Fisheries Research and Development Institute, Republic of Korea this book into Korean and We organized a “fish book club” about experts suspect overfishing and climate would like to spread H. Bruce ocean books and chose The Most change could be the main reasons for Franklin’s idea about over- Important Fish in the Sea, which we this phenomenon. Now we are translating learned about through the American this book into Korean and would like to fishing and ecology concerns nonprofit The Ocean Project. The book spread [author] H. Bruce Franklin’s ideas to people in our area.” helped us understand over-fishing about over-fishing and ecology concerns to problems, diminishing fisheries resources, people in our area. Eventually we want to and environmental disasters in the global help sustainable fishery management and ocean. We recently saw a drop in the keep our marine ecosystem service safe pollock population in our area. We don’t and profitable. have any clear clue what happened, but

2 www.IslandPress.org Katie Dolan Vice Chair, Island Press Board of Directors and Writing Instructor, Sarah Lawrence Writing Institute “We find the best new ideas and inform the I Ideas P Partnerships policy makers who need S Solutions R Resilience to know!” L Lands and Waters E Environmental challenges A Animals S Seascapes N Natural Systems S Sustainable cities D Development

Mike Ferrucci Consulting Forester and Forest Certification Auditor “This book has really helped inform the Some years back while we were working Multiscaled Approach (2002) by David B. together on the Northern Forest Protection Lindenmayer and Jerry F. Franklin. What work of foresters and Fund project for OSI [Open Space Institute], made this particularly satisfying for me biologists world-wide.” we were having some challenges explaining is that I had been eagerly awaiting the the importance of proper management of publication of the book (I knew that Jerry working forests to a segment of the fund’s Franklin was working on it), and I had been conservation-oriented advisory board. more than a little concerned about how I This group, and the representative of the might introduce this book to this group. The major funder, was more focused on the problem solved itself. importance of establishing reserves. This book has really helped inform the work I was starting to feel a bit frustrated, of foresters and biologists world-wide. but then at a key meeting the funder’s There has been an emerging consensus that representative entered the room, slapped a well-managed working forests can support book on the table and exclaimed, “Everyone biodiversity conservation, and that these should read this book!” It was Conserving forests are an essential part of any reserve Forest Biodiversity: A Comprehensive, strategy in forested landscapes.

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Kathleen O’Brien “I needed more. At a Participant in a King County Sustainable Cities Roundtable, sponsored by the King County, Washington, GreenTools Program in conjunction with the Island Press Sustainability Knowledge Network. O’Brien is founder of O’Brien & recent Sustainable Cities Company, a nationally recognized consulting company committed to the creation of a sustainable built environment. The Sustainable Cities Roundtable was held in October 2012 and led by Robert Young, professor at the University of Roundtable, I got what Utah College of Architecture + Planning, co-director of the Mountain West Planning & Design Academy, and author of Stewardship of the Built Environment: Sustainability, Preservation, and Reuse (2012). Young led a discussion about I needed.” retrofitting existing buildings and historic structures to meet green building performance standards. With King County’s Green Building and Sustainable Development Ordinance set to expire in fall 2013, his visit was arranged by Island Press in response to interest in how King County’s new ordinance can consider the retrofitting of historic buildings. I have to confess that I’ve been a little put since sustainability sometimes asks us to off by local historic preservationists self- think counter-intuitively, I needed more. righteously declaring that “preservation” At a recent Sustainable Cities Roundtable equals sustainability and leaving it at conducted by King County’s GreenTools that. Yes, yes, I understand that recycling Program, I got what I needed. buildings intuitively makes sense, but

Jian Peng “The scientists and Engineer at Jiangsu Academy of Environmental Studies, China engineers are working The scientists and engineers at Jiangsu activity there accounts for 12% of the on translating the book Academy of Environmental Studies (JSAES) gross GDP of China. Taihu Lake faces many Freshwater Ecoregions in Jiangsu, China, are working on translating environmental challenges, especially the book Freshwater Ecoregions of North eutrophication due to heavy nutrient of North America into America (1999) into Chinese to assist their inputs from surrounding agriculture, cities, Chinese.” work and help the other Chinese scientists and industries. JSAES hopes that the who work on similar projects. JSAES is ecoregional approach will facilitate the working on a “Special Water Project” in management of the watershed by linking Taihu Lake Watershed near the mouth watershed ecoregions with site-specific of Yangtze River. The watershed is small water quality objectives and enforceable (37,000 square kilometers) but supports limits of pollutant discharges from the over 47 million people, and economic surrounding areas.

4 www.IslandPress.org 2012by the Numbers

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Adoptions of Island Press books by professors total print and E-books sold 235 for university courses 162,803

Island Press titles published in 2012 Island Press Sustainability Knowledge 28 40 network events held in Seattle, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. 224 Island Press books converted to e-books presenters and attendees from land trusts, 74 public agencies, foundations, and private 577 total Island Press books now available for equity firms convened at Conservation purchase as e-books Finance short courses held at Stanford Interns worked in our editorial, production, and Yale to share and expand their 19 marketing, and development departments knowledge of conservation finance tools and strategies

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Trash Backwards: Innovating Our Way to Zero Waste, a 2012 Island Press E-ssential

Bike Racks (Jaysin Trevino, Flickr) Endangered Kirtland’s Warbler (Joel Trick, USFWS, Flickr)

E-ssentials Program Launched Island Press books are available in digital formats 2012 Program Highlights compatible with any major e-reader on the market. We launched the Island Press E-ssentials series in With more Island Press digital content available to 2012. Short, digital-only works of nonfiction on more people via more channels, e-book sales grew Cultivating Actionable Knowledge environmental topics, our E-ssentials are offered at from 1.3% of our total sales in 2011 to 5.1% of total a length and price point designed to appeal to new Expanding our Built Environment Program sales in 2012. audiences. We published five E-ssentials in 2012. The tragic impacts of Hurricane Sandy revealed in Publishing Regional National stark relief the need for our cities to become strong Climate Assessment Reports and resilient in the face of a changing climate. The Increasing Access to Knowledge Island Press Built Environment program, which The National Climate Assessment, mandated by New Partnership with Worldwatch Institute focuses on the sustainability of developed and urban Congress every four years, is informed by a series areas, has been fostering the ideas to help cities In 2012, for the first time, Island Press worked with of detailed technical reports about climate change respond to those needs for more than a decade. And Worldwatch Institute to help develop and publish impacts on regional ecosystems and economies. we have recently committed to expand the program. their annual book State of the World. State of the These technical reports contain a depth and In 2012, we hired a new acquisitions editor who will World 2012: Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity breadth of information that the overall national work with thought leaders to develop more books has been adopted for use in university courses and report lacks, but in the past little has been done to on urban sustainability. In the coming three years, saw high sales throughout the year. We are excited to help audiences in each region access the locally we will double the number of books we publish in continue to collaborate with the Worldwatch Institute relevant information those reports contain. That this area, with an emphasis on green infrastructure, and help disseminate the important ideas of State of is now changing. We are currently in the process transportation, and energy efficiency. We will also the World as their publishing partner into the future. of publishing the reports for nine regions of the help extend the reach of these books through country. We are also working with conservation Hundreds of Island Press outreach in cities around the United States with the and communication partners to make the content Titles Converted to E-books Island Press Sustainability Knowledge Network. of these reports accessible to new audiences and Our production team led an extensive conversion of relevant to local contexts around the country. our past titles into e-books in 2012. Now, over 500

6 www.IslandPress.org Corporation 2020: Transforming Business for Tomorrow’s World Jason Twill

Seattle Public Library (Jeff Gunn, Flickr)

at the World Bank and World Resources Institute value of natural capital as a real estate and public Translating Ideas into Action in Washington, D.C.; business and philanthropic infrastructure asset. Corporation 2020: From Knowledge to Action leaders in the Silicon Valley; and businesspeople and corporate sustainability directors in Seattle, Conservation Finance Network The story of Corporation 2020: Transforming where he made a presentation at the Seattle In 2012, Island Press became home to a new Business for Tomorrow’s World exemplifies our work Chamber of Commerce. He also presented at a dinner program, the Conservation Finance Network, which to cultivate actionable and accessible knowledge, in Seattle with sustainability directors representing builds on the successes of the Conservation Finance increase access to knowledge, and translate ideas several area corporations, including Microsoft, “Boot Camps” held at Yale and Stanford since into action. From late 2011 to early 2012, Island Starbucks, REI, Costco, and UBS Financial Services. 2007. As the preeminent publisher of literature Press editors worked with author Pavan Sukdhev, on conservation finance, Island Press provides an international leader on corporate finance and Sukhdev’s visit to Seattle has since sparked a unique an intellectual foundation for the Network, which environmental economics, to develop the ideas of collaboration with Jason Twill, a steering committee delivers conservation finance tools and training his book. Corporation 2020 presents a blueprint member for the Sustainability Knowledge Network. to people working to protect, restore, and steward for realigning corporate practices to provide for the Twill has served as the Director of Sustainability at natural resources. The Conservation Finance Network health of people, the economy, and the environment. Vulcan, Inc. and Chair of the Board at International Living Future Institute. He is also the originator of works to help people accelerate the pace of land When Corporation 2020 was published in fall the Economics of Change Project, which unites and resource conservation through the use of of 2012, Island Press marketing and program theoretical approaches of ecological economics and innovative funding and financing strategies; it is teams worked with Sukhdev to arrange speaking practical techniques of real estate appraisal and an important force in Island Press’s work to help engagements and presentations to help him valuation to expand methodologies for evaluating conservation leaders implement ideas into action. spread his ideas to diverse audiences. Sukhdev the benefits of high-performance green buildings Two Conservation Finance short courses, or “Boot made dozens of presentations internationally and and infrastructure. Since Twill and Sukhdev met Camps”—one at Yale and one at Stanford—were held domestically in 2012. Through the Island Press in October 2012, they have been working in in 2012, providing conservation finance training to Sustainability Knowledge Network, in particular, collaboration on the Economics of Change Project. 74 representatives from land trusts, public agencies, Island Press helped Sukhdev connect with public, They are now collecting data and calculations on the foundations, and private equity firms. private, and nonprofit leaders with presentations

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8 www.IslandPress.org “Poignant…Tibet Wild…lays out an open-ended account of the struggle to save wild places and their inhabitants. I can’t recall any book that has made me care as much or think harder about how we might do that.” —Science 2012

“Often lyrically, Davis bemoans the state of a river that has been hemmed in so that cities including Las Vegas, San Diego, Los Angeles, Tucson and Phoenix can switch on their lights and have their taps flow.... He does a good job of showing how we are all connected to this river, whether we recognize it or not.” —The Washington Post

“...[F]ull of enthusiasm and passion for the power of observations to explain, inform, and educate....They take on See all titles a number of sacred cows, and gore them, so this will be a published in 2012 at thought-provoking and much-discussed book.” —Ecology www.IslandPress.org

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Island Press Statement of Activities FY 2012 and FY 2011 Composition of Income FY 2012 Temporarily OPERATING SUPPORT AND REVENUE Unrestricted restricted Total 2012 Total 2011 Support: Foundation Grants Foundation grants 469,724 982,102 1,451,826 922,723 $1,451,826 30% Individual contributions 445,543 135,161 580,704 562,907 Total support 915,267 1,117,263 2,032,530 1,485,630 Individual Contributions $580,704 Earned Revenue: 12% Publishing income (net of returns) 2,766,503 — 2,766,503 2,748,868 Interest and other revenue 32,174 — 32,174 7,879 Total earned revenue 2,798,677 — 2,798,677 2,756,747

Earned Contributed Net assets released from restrictions 943,087 (943,087) — — Revenue Support $2,798,677 $2,032,530 Total support and income 4,657,031 174,176 4,831,207 4,242,377 58% 42%

OPERATING EXPENSES Island Press Program Services: Composition of Expenses FY 2012 Research and publication 1,995,448 — 1,995,448 1,932,171 Research & Outreach and education 1,220,608 — 1,220,608 1,213,353 Publication $1,995,448 Partnerships and technical assistance 557,556 — 557,556 631,398 41% Total program services 3,773,612 — 3,773,612 3,776,922

Outreach & Education Supporting Services: $1,220,608 25% Management and administration 612,803 — 612,803 599,947 Parnerships & Fundraising 443,821 — 443,821 390,754 Technical Assistance Total supporting services 1,056,624 — 1,056,624 990,701 $557,556 12% Total operating expenses 4,830,236 — 4,830,236 4,767,622

Change in net assets (173,205) 174,176 971 (525,245) Fundraising Management & Program $443,821 Administration Services 9% $612,803 $3,773,612 Net assets, beginning of year 2,679,711 410,996 3,090,707 3,615,952 13% 78% Net assets, end of year 2,506,506 585,172 3,091,678 3,090,707

10 www.IslandPress.org Thank You, Island Press Supporters Philanthropic support from individuals and foundations makes it possible for us to fulfill our mission: to provide the best ideas and information in the field to people seeking to understand and protect the environment and create solutions to its complex problems. The following list includes supporters who made gifts at the $500 level and above in 2012. We are grateful for the support that you, and all our donors, have shown to Island Press. The stories featured in this report reveal many of the important outcomes that your generosity makes possible. Thank you for being a part of our work.

$100,000+ Terry Gamble and Peter Boyer Michael Berman Jerry Tone and Martha Wyckoff Ellen W. Chu Agua Fund Gordon and Betty Moore David and Katherine Bradley Elizabeth Ulmer and Jonathan Joern Fischer Anonymous Foundation Ellen W. Chu Graham Peter Fox-Penner The Kresge Foundation Merloyd Ludington Lawrence Dielle Fleischmann Tom and Carol Wheeler Alan B. Franklin S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation The Margaret A. Cargill Peter Fox-Penner Wildlife Forever Fund Cynthia Girling The Summit Charitable Foundation Furthermore: A Program of the Debora Wilson Alan Haney Foundation, Inc. Gordon and Betty Moore J.M. Kaplan Fund $500-$999 R. Bruce Hull Byrne and Pamela Murphy Lorraine Gallard and Richard Ronald Kellett Bruce and Hattie Babbitt $50,000 - $99,999 The Overbrook Foundation H. Levy Jay Maclean Richard and Carolyn Barry The 11th Hour Project Alexis and Christine Sant Jerre and Nancy Hitz J. Michael McCloskey Bert Carp Decker Anstrom and Sherron Charles and Sara Savitt Virginia Kromm Richard B. Norgaard Bertram and Barbara Cohn Hiemstra Cynthia Sears and Frank Lyme Timber Company Juli G. Pausas Boisfeuillet and Barbara Jones Forrest C. and Frances H. Buxton John McBride Richard Reading Deborah Rivel Lattner Foundation Vic and Lee Sher Sally and Bill Meadows Fred B. Samson Jonathan F. P. Rose G.O. Forward Fund of the Saint Lucy Waletzky Dane Nichols Krista Schneider Charles and Deborah Royce Paul Foundation The Wallace Alexander Richard and Suzanne Penney Johan Schot William N. Thorndike, Jr. Land Trust Alliance Gerbode Foundation Drummond Pike Joseph J. Seneca Diana H. Wall Wendy Paulson, Bobolink Pisces Foundation Stewart Udall Revocable Trust $5,000 - $9,999 Edward Whitney Foundation Dorine Real and Lee Tepper Tanya M. Shenk Emmett Foundation V. Kann Rasmussen William and Elizabeth Reilly Authors’ Circle Katharine Suding Klorfine Foundation Foundation Larry Rockefeller We thank the following Island Colin Summerhayes Peter Stein and Lisa Cashdan Connie Roosevelt Press authors who contributed or Vicky Temperton $10,000 - $49,999 $1,000 - $4,999 The Honorable Beverly reassigned their royalties to Island David Tongway Anonymous (2) Press in 2012. B. Savitt Donald Waller Stephen and Stina Badger Lisa Adams and David Miller Susan Sechler and Lloyd Steven Allison-Bunnell Joan Wolfe Betsy and Jesse Fink Anonymous Timberlake J. Mark Baker Foundation James Aronson Daniel and Isa Catto Shaw Harry Biggs The Curtis and Edith Munson William and Ann Backer Simon and Nancy Sidamon- Fred Bosselman Foundation Liz Barratt-Brown and Bos Eristoff Robert D. Brown Katie and Peter Dolan Dewey Singing Field Foundation Radford Byerly, Jr. Margot Paul Ernst Frances Beinecke and Paul Sarah Slusser Julie Clark Russell B. Faucett Elston

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Sarah Kuschner “The internship program at 2012 Editorial Intern Island Press achieves the The internship program at Island Press meeting. Island Press has given me the difficult balance that so achieves the difficult balance that so many opportunity to observe or participate in many programs ignore.” programs ignore: I do enough clerical tasks each step as a book evolves from proposal to feel as if I am contributing in a helpful to production to paperback. I leave the way, but my supervisors also assign work office each day excited by something that is a little outside my comfort zone, I learned in a meeting (e-content is which allows me to grow and learn about lifting the whole industry—step aside, the industry. On any given day, I might be doomsayers!) or stewing over something evaluating proposals, corresponding with I read in a manuscript (did you know that authors, sending page proofs to reviewers, after housing, Americans spend the largest reviewing manuscripts, or preparing chunk of their income on transportation?). materials for the next decision-to-publish

Island Press Interns Island Press appreciates the many people who worked with us as interns in 2012. As members of our editorial, production, marketing, and development teams, our interns provide important energy and input that contribute to our organizational success. We offer special thanks to all the interns who worked with us in 2012:

Eleanor Bennett Kevin MacWhorter Tessa Fox Gabrielle Piccininni Jennifer Gorfine Hannah Robinson Rachel Haines Micaela Samodelov Nadia Hlebowitsh Anastasia Stelse Alison Hornbeck Nathalie von Veh Upma Kapoor Noah Weisz Sarah Kuschner Sarah Wyatt Kate Lu Allison Ziegler

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11 www.IslandPress.org Cristina Eisenberg Author of The Wolf’s Tooth: Keystone Predators, Trophic Cascades, and Biodiversity (2010) “My book has become an agent of change. I want to say thank you to all the Island the world. My book has become an agent of Press donors who have made it possible change. Thank you for making that possible. Thank you for making for books such as mine to get out there in that possible.”

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Annual Report 2012: Stories of Impact 12 Loring LaBarbera Schwarz Loring has held domestic and international leadership positions with The Nature Conservancy, The Conservation “…Island Press Fund, NatureServe, Mass Audubon, and in her own conservation strategies firm newPrimavera. She serves on the Island Press Thought Leaders Advisory Council and is a Board Member of the Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition. unified a disparate movement, cross- I have long considered Island Press but interests were not) by providing a training those of us the unsung hero of the environmental rainbow of titles from water to farming movement. I look at my bookshelf and to marine issues to urban planning. The with curious minds…” can literally trace the progress of an era of impact of these titles, which layered conservation accomplishments as I scan new science with best practices with the titles. My own copies are dog-eared experience, helped to make our work and perhaps now out of date, but I consider shared and mainstream. Island Press these books and the rest of my Island became a silent partner in our long Press collection as essential a part of my list of accomplishments. Books like professional training as my degree. Ecological Restoration (2008), Drafting a Conservation Blueprint (2003), and Road As the go-to resource for conservation Ecology (2002) created common language professionals of all stripes, Island Press and communities of practice. The variety of unified a disparate movement, cross- titles that grew at Island Press seemed as training those of us with curious minds diverse and complex as the earth we were (whose work may have been specialized all trying to protect.

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