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Food hub’s other half set to open

The Redd on Salmon Street opens completely on March 2

Portland Tribune

New Green Deal aims to boost the Restoration Economy. But what IS the Restoration Economy?

An Ecotrust study found that Oregon's 7,000-plus watershed restoration projects generated nearly 6,500 jobs from 2001 through 2010. Many of those jobs went to unemployed loggers.

Ecosystem Marketplace

A promising partnership

Methow Valley News receives a Rural Reporting Fellowship from Ecotrust to do substantive reporting of climate change issues on a local basis.

Methow Valley News

What does climate change mean for you?

Methow Valley News reporter Ashley Ahearn publishes her first article through the Ecotrust Rural Reporting Fellowship. In 2019, she will explore the local impacts of global climate change.

Methow Valley News

How an Oregon rancher is building soil health — and a robust regional food system

Fourth-generation rancher Cory Carman holistically manages 5,000 acres, which serve as a model for sustainable meat operations in the Pacific Northwest

Civil Eats

Bits and Pieces

Here are some notes on this and that and the other thing - including The Redd, Meals on Wheels People, 'Bumblebee' and 'Stars on Ice'

Portland Tribune

Ecotrust opens its Central Eastside foodie campus

The renovated buildings are already serving more than 170 food businesses

Portland Business Journal

The fish crisis: businesses called on to do more to conserve stocks

Our Food & Fish Program Manager, Tyson Rasor, introduces two ways community fishermen are contributing to conservation efforts while supporting their businesses.

Oregon Business

119 Organizations Shaking Up the Food System in 2019

Our work to create a more restorative, equitable, and delicious food system was included in this round up of ground-breaking organizations working across the nation.

FoodTank

Our nine favorite new coffee shops

La Perlita, a Latinx-owned coffee shop on Ecotrust's first floor, is featured in the Willamette Week

Willamette Week

Doctoral Student Contributes to Carbon Storage Study

Earlier this month, Ecotrust, in partnership with the University of Washington, published “Tradeoffs in Timber, Carbon and Cash Flow under Alternative Management Systems for Douglas-Fir in the Pacific Northwest,” a peer-reviewed study that looks at the carbon storage in Washington and Oregon forests.

Offshoots

America’s Small-Boat Fisheries: Making Sustainable Seafood More Traceable & Delicious

To test the quality of frozen fish and consumer perceptions about seafood, several small-boat fisheries/CSFs teamed up with Oregon State University, Seafood Analytics, and Ecotrust.

Marine Fish Conservation Network

Peer-Reviewed Study Finds FSC Stores More Carbon

In partnership with the University of Washington, Ecotrust recently published a peer-reviewed study titled “Tradeoffs in Timber, Carbon and Cash Flow under Alternative Management Systems for Douglas-Fir in the Pacific Northwest,” which analyzes the carbon storage potential of FSC-certified forests in Washington and Oregon.

FSC United States Newsletter

The Russell Family Foundation moved most of its endowment to impact… and outperformed its benchmark

The Russell Family Foundation’s journey to align its $141 million endowment with its philanthropic mission began with a contradiction: Does an environmental foundation undermine its grants to improve water quality by investing in businesses that pollute local waterways?

ImpactAlpha

Making Steps Sustainable

Visitors to an innovative energy display supported Ecotrust with every step.

Facility Executive

Photos: Work under way for food hub’s next course

The Redd on Salmon Street – a $23 million, two-block Ecotrust adaptive reuse development in Portland’s Central Eastside – is nearing completion

Daily Journal of Commerce

Hoonah’s second annual culture camp weaves tradition into everyday life

For four days, participants of Hoonah’s second annual culture camp traveled to this site at Freshwater Bay and immersed themselves in Tlingit culture, language and traditional activities.

Juneau Empire

A Walk in The Woods: How Forests Grow Solid Returns

In a twist on the old adage: “It’s seeing the forest for the trees,” EFM, a privately-held forestland investment and management company, is making a positive environmental, social and financial impact through its sustainable, climate-smart strategies.

Real Leaders

‘The Four Top’: Fernando Divina | Jill Lightner | Amanda Oborne

In this episode, we explore the relationship between food and health, in the contexts of communities, our kitchens, and even the whole planet.

The Four Top

Mid-Atlantic Data Portal Offers Maps and Resources for Ocean Planning

The Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean (MARCO) continues its work to support regional collaborative efforts through access to ocean data and information via the Mid-Atlantic Portal.

The Two Rivers Times

The Redd’s urban-rural food hub to open by end of year

By year's end, the Redd on Salmon Street will be a major epicenter for Portland's fresh food economy

Portland Tribune

Ballard home to office of global nonprofit dedicated to preserving forests

A profile of Jennifer Whitaker, relationship connector for the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), where she works to inspire change around protecting forests locally and around the world. Ecotrust is proud to be a partner.

Westside Seattle

Milltown cleanup created jobs, boosted economy, Montana official says at conference

The $113 million spent on cleaning up the Milltown area is estimated to have resulted in more than 3,500 jobs, according to a 2009 study by the Montana Department of Labor and Industry.

The Missoulian

Can you really be a conscious carnivore?

Our meat eating habits, no longer a matter of basic sustenance, have become ethically fraught, deeply personal questions: Money. Health. Animal welfare. Environmental impact. Here, five American eaters navigate their way through the messy middle.

New Food Economy

Buying frozen fish isn’t what it used to be here. Here’s what you need to know.

A 2016 study funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation that tested consumer preferences for fresh black cod and coho salmon vs. frozen (both bought at retail) found that the frozen fish, simply baked, were both rated superior or equal to their fresh counterparts.

Washington Post

Oregon’s stunning new state park was almost turned into a golf course

Sitka Sedge State Natural Area officially opened last weekend.

Statesman Journal

Movement to eat locally grown food in full swing in Clark County

The national food trend of eating locally has come to Clark County.

The Columbian

Guest Essay: What Does Real Change in Our Food System Look Like?

Lyf Gildersleeve, owner of Flying Fish Company, a sustainable seafood retailer in Providore Fine Foods, wrote this guest post for the Marine Fish Conservation Network, a coalition of fishermen, conservationists, scientists and citizens around a mission to conserve and revitalize wild ocean fisheries.

Good Stuff Northwest

Want to support Domestic Apparel Production? Mapping the Future of Fiber

More and more, conscious consumers and businesses owners are looking for ethical, environmentally responsible, locally made products and services, all of which are increasingly hard to find as domestic production shrinks.

Inside Fashion Design

Highly Rated Charities to Consider for Earth Day

One way to mark Earth Day is with a credit card, by making donations to charities involved in environmental protection throughout the year.

Forbes

Off the lamb: how to eat with a low carbon footprint

A WWF report has named the British meals with the highest carbon footprints, with lamb cawl topping the list. So which foods are more sustainable?

The Guardian

Guest Opinion: Wood skyscrapers are coming. Let’s build them right.

Mark Edlen and Denis Hayes contend that Portland can demonstrate how wood skyscrapers and responsible forestry can be natural allies.

OregonLive

Marion Acres Raises Pastured Meats

In 2012, two families began a big adventure by starting small. John and Rachelle Mathia wanted to buy a small farm so they could feed their family good clean food.

The Cedar Mill News

One-stop shopping event for CSAs offered

More than 40 farmers and food producers will be on hand Sunday to talk about their Community Supported Agriculture programs.

Pamplin Media Group

Philadelphia-based food hub leader turns 10, is set to go national

Nonprofit Quarterly

Beneficial State Bank Merges with Albina Community Bank

Beneficial State Bank announced that it will merger with Albina Community Bank, affirming the vitality of triple-bottom-line banking committed to meaningful social justice outcomes and environmental well-being.

The Skanner

Can Food Hubs Scale Nationally and Stay True to the Cause?

Philadelphia's Common Market is expanding to Atlanta, Houston, and beyond, connecting more farmers to eaters and scaling a model that has long remained local

Civil Eats

Art show to defend DACA program held by local ‘dreamer’

Local graphic designer and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient Heldáy de la Cruz made a big statement through his artwork.

KPTV

7 ecological charities to support on Giving Tuesday and beyond

Ecotrust joins six earth-focused nonprofits in Inhabit's charitable giving guide that features high-impact organizations making the most of every dollar they raise.

Inhabit

Resistance Events for the Week of November 29-December 5

Artist Heldáy de la Cruz will showcase 10 portraits of DACA recipients and raise money for three immigrant rights organizations at 'We the Dreamers: An Art Show to Defend DACA.'

Portland Mercury

Meyer Trust Awards $22.7 Million to Oregon Nonprofits

Portland-based Meyer Memorial Trust has announced that it awarded a hundred and ninety-three grants totaling $22.7 million in 2017 to nonprofit organizations working to create and support vibrant, equitable communities in Oregon.

Philanthropy News Digest

Outdoor maven: Food and farming leader launches camper van rental business

How Deborah Kane, a pioneer in Oregon’s sustainable food scene, left a high-profile public policy role for a career in the sharing economy.

Oregon Business

America’s Food System Is a Mirror for Our Society and Culture

Amanda Oborne is Vice President of Food & Farms at Portland, Oregon-based Ecotrust, “a catalyst for radical, practical change.”

Medium

Fresh seafood? Group touts benefits of freezing

A Sitka fishermen's group has set a course to counteract that stereotype, and prove that properly frozen fish has clear advantages over the "fresh" fish sold to consumers.

Homer Tribune

Fish Factor: Frozen Fish Image Boost, Mighty Alaska, Seafood Favorites, Upcoming Meetings

Alaskans pull home packs of fish from their freezers all year round and know it will cook up nutritious and delicious. Yet there is still a perception that fresh seafood is always better than frozen.

Seward City News

‘Plywood on steroids’ can benefit climate, forests

Buildings made with cross-laminated timber account for less than half the carbon emissions of structures using steel and concrete

Pamplin Media Group

The Importance of Regenerative Agriculture in a Warming World

Sustainably meeting the demands of immense population growth will be one of the defining challenges of this century.

SOCAP

Frozen seafood gets a bad rap, but a Sitka fishermen’s group is trying to change that

Alaskans pull home-packs of fish from their freezers all year round and know it will cook up nutritious and delicious. Yet there is still a perception that fresh seafood is always better than frozen.

Alaska Dispatch News

Community-supported agriculture systems make locally-grown food more accessible in Bloomington

Less than 1 percent of U.S. farms use subscription programs, according to a 2015 study by Ecotrust and the Economics for Equity and Environment Network.

Indiana Daily Student

As Northwest salmon economy teeters on brink, Trump gives it a push

Northwest salmon fisheries are in trouble, impacted by warming oceans and overdeveloped, dammed and silted spawning rivers and streams.

Mongabay

It’s Time to Invest in Negative Carbon

A conference panel entitled, “Forget Net Zero: It’s Time to Invest in Negative Carbon,” highlighted several solutions.

Triple Pundit

Contemplative Creek: Remembering Bruce Hill

Terrace Standard

Another Lummi totem goes on tour, this time to highlight environmental threats

The Bellingham Herald

USDA grants will aid rural Alaska economies

The Cordova Times

19 Unique and Innovative Farm-to-School Programs

October is national Farm-to-School Month in the United States. It’s a time to celebrate the connections between schools, farmers, and locally and regionally produced foods.

FoodTank

How “Speed Dating” Socials Strengthen Local Food Economies

Modern Farmer

Guest column: It’s time to celebrate Oregon’s product makers

Consumer products made locally embody the spirit of Oregon, says Built Oregon's Mitch Daugherty

Portland Business Journal

Building Portland’s local food economy at the Redd

A year after opening, the Oregon food hub and business incubator is building connections and helping small and medium food producers grow their businesses.

Civil Eats

Ten Things You Need to Know About the Restoration Economy

HuffPost

Tall Wood Buildings

The benefits of CLT reach well beyond the construction industry.

Green Living Journal

In Spite of Setbacks, Drawdown can help us meet our Paris climate targets

We can look to grassroots efforts for inspiration and tools to help us move toward the sustainable future we want.

Hundredgivers

5 Ways Schools Can Boost the Local Food Economy

Schools have tremendous purchasing power and influence when it comes to local food. Here are some ways they are sourcing closer to home.

Civil Eats

Western Innovator: Helping the next generation

Drawing from her own experience, Nellie McAdams urges aging farmers to make succession plans.

Capital Press

Tangled up in Wool

How an effort to green the textile market turned into a referendum on animal welfare, national monuments and an iconic outdoor trade show.

Oregon Business

Food for Thought: The Do’s, Don’ts and Donut’s of Food Investing.

Food and beverage startups in Oregon are proliferating, and making money, bringing in $1B in financing in 2015 alone. So, where are the returns across the food value chain?

Medium

Whetting young appetites

Should schools be required to serve meals low in sodium, rich in whole grains, and with fat-free milk? The U.S. Department of Agriculture under the Trump administration doesn't think so.

Portland Tribune

The plan to save the world from climate change

‘Drawdown’ lays out the top 80 solutions already underway

Street Roots

Green Loop exhibit at Design Week Portland

The Portland Green Loop project is a proposed six-mile pedestrian and bike promenade linking the city’s east and west sides. This exhibit is inviting the community to come together to learn, react and discuss the project’s potential.

KGW.com

Coastal Edge Rainforest Reserve Largest Conservation Initiative in North Coast Land Conservancy History

In November 2016 North Coast Land Conservancy took the first steps toward the acquisition of approximately 3,500 acres of timberland between Arch Cape and Manzanita, Oregon, marking the single largest conservation initiative in the Conservancy’s history.

Tillamook County Pioneer

‘The Four Top’: Restaurateurs Under Trump | Whence The Midsize American Farm? | Institutional Eating

The current administration's impact on the restaurant industry, the future of midsize farming, and the status of prison and hospital food.

OPB

‘Drawdown’ offers climate action solutions

Paul Hawkens' playbook ranks 100 initiatives, from eco-roofs to mass transit, to avert dramatic global warming.

Portland Tribune

The Redd on Salmon Street

The Redd on Salmon Street—located in the Central Eastside industrial district of Portland-Oregon—is a food project of an entirely different order, with a much more inclusive and wildly ambitious mission: to make regeneratively produced, locally sourced food a mainstay of the regional diet. ​

The Field Guide

How green really are tall timber buildings?

Organizers of this week’s International Mass Timber Conference in Portland devoted a whole track of their three-day event to environmental and sustainability aspects of the mass timber sector.

Oregon Business

Make Your Plans for ‘Design Week Portland’ Now (video)

An overview of all things Design Week Portland.

KGW

Seafood Analytics’ CQR Shifting Industry to Objective Quality

Seafood Analytics also recently collaborated with Ecotrust, Oregon State University and three small fleet fisheries on the west coast to address questions of frozen seafood freshness.

Food Logistics

A first look at 2017’s ambitious Design Week Portland’s programs (photos)

The Redd, an Ecotrust development, will serve as a conduit for the April 21-April 29 program that's expected to draw 5,000 participants.

Portland Business Journal

Cutting-edge mapping and forest modeling technologies for all forest landowners

In 2014, Ecotrust launched a free web application, Forest Planner, to enable landowners in Oregon and Washington to visualize and compare trade-offs of different forest management approaches customized to their property, including carbon sequestration, timber production and economics, fire hazards, and more.

Forks Forum

Farm to School program champions more healthy eating

Burton Elementary School expands its farm to school programming.

The Columbian

Get inside creative studios: Design Week Portland (photos)

Design Week Portland, which opens closed-to-the-public creative studios, returns April 21-29 with events in all corners of the city.

OregonLive

How Trump’s Environmental Policies Can Kill 220,000 Jobs And Eradicate Dozens of Species

The restoration economy is already providing jobs for loggers across Oregon, and even some coal miners in Virginia, but it could disappear if the GOP environmental rollback continues.

The Huffington Post

Patagonia leaving its longtime Ecotrust home for a prominent new location

The outdoor retailer is moving into a highly visible spot along West Burnside this spring.

Portland Business Journal

The Green Loop is gaining momentum

21st century public engagement for a 21st century public works project.

The Intertwine

The Future of Our Food: Building Infrastructure for a Regional Food System

An interview with Ecotrust VP of Food and Farms, Amanda Oborne.

Good Stuff NW

Trump Can Save 220,000 Rural Jobs And Conserve Nature. Will He?

President Donald Trump and many Congressional Republicans say they’ll create jobs by rolling back environmental regulation, but their current trajectory could have the opposite effect.

Ecosystem Marketplace

Congress rolls back protecting streams from coal mining

Alaska’s congressional delegation has voted with the Republican majority to overturn a rule that blocks coal mines from discharging waste into streams.

The Cordova Times

Ecotrust food-system innovators make Fast Company’s ‘Most Creative’ list

From salt to crickets(and probably salt on crickets), Oregon's food scene is famously inventive.

Portland Business Journal

Be inspired by these creative leaders who are changing the world

The new members of our Most Creative People in Business community are impacting industries ranging from fashion to finance.

Fast Company

Millenial Weddings Defy Disruption

Some of the millennial value system is trickling down to the nuptial exchange. Couples are seeking edgier, urban venues like warehouses (as opposed to churches and hotel ballrooms).

Oregon Business

Amplifying impact with mission investments

How foundations can reimagine a proven philanthropic tool to more effectively address today’s social and environmental challenges.

Stanford Social Innovation Review

6 questions with Portland author, and fishing industry expert, Lee van der Voo

A conversation with an Ecotruster about catch shares led Lee van der Voo to research her book "The Fish Market"

Portland Business Journal

News roundtable | Elliott State Forest | solitary confinement in Oregon

Only one company put in a bid to purchase Elliott State Forest.

Oregon Public Broadcasting

A Portland start-up delivers local, organic, plant-based groceries to your door

Is it time to say goodbye to Whole Foods Market and hello to New Foods Market?

Portland Monthly

Oregon, with Legislature’s help, must re-examine its priorities on Elliott State Forest: editorial

The terrain near Coos Bay, in Oregon's Coast Range, is steeply sloped, densely forested, and abundant in fish-bearing rivers and other wildlife.

The Oregonian

3,300 acres to be conserved near Oswald West State Park

On Nov. 18, North Coast Land Conservancy took the first steps toward the acquisition of approximately 3,300 acres of timberland between Arch Cape and Manzanita, Ore.

Tillamook Headlight Herald

Oregon’s Elliott State Forest sale attracts 1 bid

Oregon’s attempt to sell off the Elliott State Forest has drawn only one bid.

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Big things are cooking at Central Eastside food hub

Portland’s Ecotrust aims to scale sustainable agriculture and help set the table for hundreds, even thousands of Oregonians.

Crain's Portland

Nut milk, grains to your door

A new business in Southeast Portland is taking the concept of fresh, local grocery shopping to the digital era.

Portland Tribune

The Redd seafood hub lands with big splash

Ecotrust opens first of two food-based business spaces

Portland Tribune

Why farm-to-institution sourcing is the sleeping giant of local food

Strategists are following the money to schools, corporate cafeterias, and hospitals in hopes of rebuilding local economies and bringing healthy food access—literally in through the back door.

Civil Eats

Ironworks to food hub: an early glimpse inside The Redd

While many of the Central Eastside's buildings are unremarkable from the outside—largely windowless and made from utilitarian materials—I've long enjoyed getting small glimpses through warehouses' doors that reveal beehives of human and industrial activity inside.

Portland Architecture

Ecotrust’s Jeremy Barnicle on sustainability and economic success

Celebrate Ecotrust's 25th anniversary!

kinkfm

Huge local food hub opens in Portland, Oregon

Ecotrust, a non-profit based in Portland, Ore., opened phase one of a $23 million, 80,000-square-foot campus that is part food hall, part food hub, designed to connect small- and mid-size farms and ranches with their customers, Fast Company says.

Fern's Ag Insider

Portland’s first food hub brings the farm to a bigger table

The Redd on Salmon Street is an 80,000-square-foot campus complete with a cold-storage warehouse and local food vendors.

Fast Company

Ecotrust, national labor group tout clean energy jobs potential in new study

Proposals to turn the Northwest into a busy corridor for the processing and transportation of fossil fuels have roiled the region.

Portland Business Journal

Scaling up local food

A new facility in Portland, Ore., aims to solve critical infrastructure problems that thwart the growth of midsize farms and ranches.

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Ecotrust lands national food nonprofit at The Redd

National nonprofit FoodCorps is moving its headquarters to The Redd on Salmon Street in Southeast Portland.

Portland Business Journal

You should be eating more amazing Oregon fish

Oregon’s coastal waters teem with unique seafood. So why isn’t it ending up in our restaurants?

Portland Monthly Magazine

Ecotrust sells food magazine to Seattle publisher

Ecotrust has sold its food magazine to a like-minded publisher in Seattle.

Portland Business Journal

Portland meet-up experts plan first startup conference

The duo behind the popular monthly meetup NewTech PDX will dramatically up their networking ante.

Portland Business Journal

The Redd: Portland’s first ‘food hub’ under construction

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Portland already has a lock on great chefs and food.

KGW

Inside the NW Food Buyers’ Alliance

This issue of In Good Tilth highlights the power of institutions to support a healthier, more resilient food system and how they can help communities take responsibility for sustainable practices.

In Good Tilth

Urban rooftop wedding

Although Jade and Nick currently live in Rhode Island for work, they both grew up in the Pacific Northwest and knew they wanted to tie the knot in Portland.

Oregon Bride

Elizabeth Woody, Oregon’s voice

The state's new poet laureate talks about writing, poverty, salmon, dams, race, family, and the keeping of a way of life

Oregon Artswatch

Ten questions with Amanda Oborne, Vice President of Food and Farms at Ecotrust

Food Tank had the chance to speak with Amanda Oborne, the Vice President of Food and Farms at Ecotrust, who will be speaking at this year's Food Tank Summit in Washington, D.C.

Food Tank

Ecotrust and the Better Angels Society Get New Leaders

Jeremy Barnicle, former chief development and communications officer at Mercy Corps, was named executive director of Ecotrust.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Ecotrust hires leader to shape next 25 years

When former Ecotrust President Astrid Scholz left the organization in 2014, the nonprofit found itself at something of a crossroads.

Portland Business Journal

Ecotrust hires a nonprofit vet as its new director

Ecotrust has named a new executive director to lead the environmental nonprofit.

Portland Business Journal

Ecotrust hires new executive director

Ecotrust has named Mercy Corps veteran Jeremy Barnicle as its new executive director.

Portland Tribune

CSA Share Fair happens March 19 in Portland

PORTLAND — About 40 food vendors are taking part March 19 in a CSA Share Fair, at which customers will be able to hook up with Community Supported Agriculture operations that deliver in Portland neighborhoods.

Capital Press

Sitka Sedge: A look at Oregon’s newest state park

TILLAMOOK COUNTY, Ore. (KOIN) — Plans are in motion for Oregon’s newest state park, Sitka Sedge State Natural Area, located in south Tillamook County.

KOIN

Ecotrust looks to get more healthy food to hungry students

Ecotrust is creating a new web tool to track the effectiveness of a program aimed at providing low-income students food from local farms.

Portland Business Journal

Wildlife habitat and water quality on Desolation Creek timberland

Responsible harvesting creates community benefit

Oregon Lands at Work

Food and agriculture’s leading experts to speak at Food Tank Summit

Washington, DC - Food Tank, in partnership with American University, will hold a two-day summit, Wednesday, April 20, 2016 and Thursday, April 21, 2016 from 9AM-5PM.

Imperial Valley News

Community-supported agriculture fair helps households find their farmer

Those looking to join community-supported agriculture programs now have an easy path to get there.

Portland Business Journal

Elwha efforts get $1M grant

The work to conserve and restore public access along the Elwha River delta shoreline just got a big boost.

Sequim Gazette

Public access in works for new beaches on east side of Elwha River mouth

PORT ANGELES — Public access to the new beaches on the east side of the Elwha River mouth is expected to be available by the summer of 2018.

Peninsula Daily News

World’s biggest temperate rainforest: much of British Columbia coast protected

An agreement covering a vast swath of British Columbia's coast -- twice the size of Vancouver Island -- preserves and protects 85 percent of what is the largest old-growth temperate rain forest on Earth.

Seattle PI

The Marble holds first pop-up market with Carman Ranch this weekend

The Redd on Salmon Street shapes up to connect Portlanders with local agriculture.

Eater

Corporate cafes offer an expanding market for producers

Providing food to corporate cafes could be a significant niche market for Oregon producers.

Capital Press

Swinomish Tribe explores ‘forest bank’ to battle climate change

The Swinomish Tribe is exploring ways to manage its forestland sustainably by placing a value on trees beyond the price of lumber.

Northwest Treaty Tribes

Here’s plastic that won’t pollute

This holiday season, consider a charge card that matches your green values

Sustainable Life

Portland nonprofit helps Chevrolet reduce its carbon footprint by 8M tons

Bonneville Environmental Foundation has retired more than eight million tons of carbon credits on behalf of Chevrolet.

Portland Business Journal

Chelsea Clinton touts her book, calls on kids to eat right

Chelsea Clinton said people interested in her mom's farm and food system views should check her website.Hillary Clinton has been spending some time in Iowa, a key farm and primary state, the candidate's daughter said.

Capital Press

Collecting oral histories of food

The producers of Underground Airwaves, a podcast supported by Ecotrust, have created bilingual “interactive exhibits and pop-up story booths” in order to collect oral histories featuring Latino voices, with a special emphasis on farming and food.

OPB

Chelsea Clinton visits Portland to discuss food system issues

She will join a panel to discuss topics such as reforming the food system, food security and the farm to school program.

Capital Press

Chelsea Clinton comes to town to stump for new book

Former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton is now an author, coming to Portland this week to promote her new book about youth activism.

Portland Tribune

The food pod grows up

Oregon's first generation of food entrepreneurs created a brand based on quality and craftsmanship. Can the second generation sustain it?

Oregon Business

The Redd hosts Potlatch on Friday

The Redd on Salmon Street is having a party, and wants everyone to come visit.

Portland Tribune

Get into a chef-approved podcast

Amid a sea of options, it can be hard to tell which food podcasts are the best.

Food & Wine

Interactive exhibits highlights food traditions of Oregon’s Latino community through storytelling

Naureen Khan didn't want to share her story at first. Her teacher, Oscár Fernández, had brought his Portland State class "Immigration, Migrations and Belonging" to an interactive exhibit focused on how food traditions evolve and adapt for Latin American immigrants and their children.

The Oregonian

Uniting the built & natural environments

In Portland, Ecotrust builds a hub for sustainable food

The Dirt: A publication of American Society of Landscape Architects

Portland Mercado hosts oral history project

On the last day of the Inheritance Stories exhibit at the Portland Mercado, the organizers set up a mic to record more stories for the next showing.

OregonLive

Redd on Salmon wins SXSW design award for resilience (renderings)

Leading design minds at SXSW Eco this week awarded The Redd on Salmon Street the Place by Design Award for resilience.

Portland Business Journal

Keiser pulls plug on Bandon Links

BANDON — Bandon Dunes owner Mike Keiser pulled the plug Sept. 30 on the proposed Bandon Links golf project south of town.

The World Link

Mayor Hales wraps up Portland Creative Conference

Mayor Hales wraps up the Portland Creative Conference, discussing creativity through Nike shoe design, "Grimm" storylines, Decemberists lyrics, LucidEnergy power generation, Ranger chocolate, ADX makerspace, Nutcase helmets, and Redd on Salmon.

cre8con

Inner eastside ‘maker space’ ready to launch

Two vacant, sprawling buildings in inner Southeast Portland soon will be shining examples of modern food “maker space” in Portland.

Portland Tribune

Tulalip, Swinomish preserve forest and salmon habitat with two significant initiatives

Two significant environmental initiatives were implemented within the last three weeks—opening prime salmon habitat on the Tulalip Reservation and, on Swinomish land, setting the stage for forest preservation.

Indian Country Today

Swinomish, Ecotrust receive federal funding for forest conservation, carbon sequestration

Joint grant could establish a new 'forest bank'

Native American Times

Peek inside Ecotrust’s sprawling Portland food hub, now looking for tenants

Ecotrust is ready to open the doors on its new food center.

Portland Business Journal

Food incubator in Central Eastside looks for tenants

A new food business incubator is ready to accept tenants. The 20,000-square-foot building in Portland's Central Eastside is part of a larger project by Ecotrust, a regional nonprofit that focuses on environmental and food issues.

The Oregonian/OregonLive

Global platform launched to promote positive plagiarism among foundations

A group of leading foundations and NGOs, including the Rockefeller Foundation, Oxfam and the Skoll Foundation have launched a peer-to-peer platform to make solving pressing social issues easier.

Pioneers Post

The truth about ‘sustainable’ chicken is that it doesn’t really exist

Diners want it. Chefs want it. Farmers want it. So why is organic, pasture-raised chicken so hard to find?

Portland Monthly

Agriculture Secretary Vilsack announces the 2015 National Urban and Community Forestry Challenge Grants

WASHINGTON - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the 2015 USDA Forest Service's National Urban and Community Forestry Challenge grant recipients.

WHO Radio

Top 10 picks for the dog days of summer

Before it’s too late, we recommend you get your barely clad booty out to some of these uniquely Portland outdoor happenings.

Portland Pedal Power The Blog

Agriculture Secretary Vilsack announces the 2015 National Urban and Community Forestry Challenge Grants

WASHINGTON, August 13, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the 2015 USDA Forest Service's National Urban and Community Forestry Challenge grant recipients.

USDA: News Release

Oregon cold storage plant announces expansion

Expansion of SnoTemp's cold storage plant in Albany is seen as a sign of the continued economic health of Oregon's food manufacturing sector.

Capital Press

Land trust, others acquire ridge top Chimacum forest to avoid clearcut

CHIMACUM— An 850-acre parcel that was slated for clearcutting is now protected in a partnership that includes the Jefferson Land Trust, which plans to explore its recreational and economic potential.

Peninsula Daily News

Farming Creativity

Amanda Oborne joins Rendered for their segment on Farming Creativity

Rendered

New Oregon bill earmarks $4.5M for farm to school

Stacey Sobell joins KBOO Community Radio to talk about latest legislation (HB 2721-1) to support farm to school purchasing and activities across the state.

KBOO Community Radio

Institutions like hospitals can help local mid-size farms

At Oregon Health & Science University recently, the lunch offerings included sandwiches made with organic chicken breast — locally sourced — on focaccia bread, baked locally and delivered daily. Plus salad made from local greens. Not a pre-packaged, mass-produced item in sight.

SFGate

Institutions like hospitals can help local mid-size farms

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — At Oregon Health & Science University recently, the lunch offerings included sandwiches made with organic chicken breast — locally sourced — on focaccia bread, baked locally and delivered daily. Plus salad made from local greens. Not a pre-packaged, mass-produced item in sight.

San Francisco Chronicle

Institutions like hospitals can help local mid-size farms

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — At Oregon Health & Science University recently, the lunch offerings included sandwiches made with organic chicken breast — locally sourced — on focaccia bread, baked locally and delivered daily. Plus salad made from local greens. Not a pre-packaged, mass-produced item in sight.

Seattle Post Intelligencer

Increased institutional food buying could bolster local farms

Because of their buying power and the millions of meals they serve, institutions such as hospitals, prisons and retirement centers could have a dramatic ripple effect on Oregon food growers and processors if they bought local products.

Capital Press

Ecotrust Forest: making the math work for sustainable timber in the Northwest

Ecotrust Forest Management has gone where most other sustainable timber funds fear to tread: the Pacific Northwest.

Impact Alpha

Coquille Tribe regains 3,200 acres of forested ancestral homeland in Oregon

Coquille Indian Tribe lands have been returned with help from Ecotrust

Indian Country Today

Portland food project to assist ‘ag of the middle’

Research by a Portland non-profit says medium size producers scramble to jump gaps in the market infrastructure

Capital Press

Coquille Tribe gets back ancestral land in Curry County

The Coquille Indian Tribe has purchased thousands of acres of culturally-rich land in Curry County and regained a piece of its ancestral heritage

Oregon Public Broadcasting

The unique challenges facing medium-sized farms

Ecotrust's Amanda Oborne is interviewed on Think Out Loud about a new report that examines the unique challenges facing “Ag of the Middle.”

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Coquille tribe regains cultural lands in Curry County

The Coquille Indian Tribe has regained another piece of its ancestral heritage with a significant purchase of culturally-rich forestland in Curry County

The World

Ecotrust report calls for investment in ‘Ag of the Middle’

A study by Ecotrust, a Portland nonprofit, says a more cohesive regional food system will support middle-size producers

The Daily Astorian

Ecotrust forest deal returns an Oregon tribe to its ancestral lands

The transaction is a rare opportunity for an Oregon tribe to reclaim access to the lands where ancestors hunted, gathered and lived.

Portland Business Journal

Report calls for investment in ‘Ag of the Middle’

A study by Ecotrust, a Portland non-profit, says a more cohesive regional food system will support middle-size producers

Capital Press

B-Line delivery joins Ecotrust’s ‘The Redd’ food processor development in Central Eastside

Besides deliveries, B-Line employees are also going to manage the warehouse and cold storage for the companies who work in The Redd

OregonLive

Ecotrust lands anchor tenant, bike delivery service at new food hub

Behind the quirky charm of a Portland tricycle delivery service beats the heart of a sophisticated logistics and distribution business

Portland Business Journal

Oregon lacking ‘ag in the middle’ — mid-sized companies that could make companies like Burgerville more local

According to a study by the Ecotrust nonprofit, there is a gap between farmers markets and mainstream food purveyors that could be profitable

OregonLive

Why Ecotrust is building a food hub in Portland’s Central Eastside

Ecotrust is tackling the primary challenge to Oregon’s mid-sized food producers: Lack of processing, storage and distribution infrastructure

Sustainable Business Oregon

Can carbon markets help Oregon’s small forests?

When cancer comes calling, what if owners of small forest plots had another choice but to sell or to cut?

Investigate West

The future is now for three small forests

Some of Oregon’s forest owners are seeking innovative ways to make a living off their land without logging it hard

InvestigateWest

Fair Trade, free markets, and the bitter fight behind your morning cup of coffee

Today, thousands of Americans will choose to pay a premium for a cup of fair trade-certified coffee. And chances are, few of them have any real idea what that means.

Vice News

Can the Bullitt Center prove that it pays for buildings to go ‘deep green’?

There’s no question they save water, energy, waste and emissions – but proving the greenest buildings also save money is tricky

The Guardian

Portland’s forestland investment company Ecotrust named best for the world

Nonprofit company B Lab, has officially named the Portland based forestland investment company, Ecotrust, a “B Corp Best for the World.”

GoLocalPDX

Search for antibiotic-free chicken a struggle for schools

Two businesses and two local school districts are teaming up, all in the name of chicken

KGW.com

Are CSA subscriptions earning farmers a living wage?

New research says the CSA model has caught on like wildfire in recent years. But it might not be the silver bullet for small farm survival

Civil Eats

The central question: Ecotrust’s The Redd to bring small food-makers together with social justice bent

The 1918 building was purchased by Ecotrust and will be transformed into a food-related business hub supporting local growers and sellers

OregonLive

Ecotrust seals the deal on food center expansion

Ecotrust has closed on a real estate deal that will double the size of its Redd on Salmon food campus

Portland Business Journal

Find your farming soulmate at the CSA share fair

The free fete includes chef demos, cookbook swaps, tastings, kids’ games, and 30+ farms to choose from

Portland Monthly Magazine

What’s the true impact of the alternative economy? Researchers decide it’s time to find out

And they found that successful initiatives are investing in human relationships, not faceless call centers or centralized headquarters

Yes! Magazine

Craigslist saved 5M tons of stuff from landfills—and 4 other new stats on local economies

Exactly how much difference do “new economy” organizations make? Economists looked into it, and here are a few of their results

Yes! Magazine

How an Oregon forest is helping Chevy meet its carbon goals

Ecotrust Forest Management Inc. has closed on an agreement to sell the carbon credits for a 980-acre forest to General Motors' Chevrolet brand

Sustainable Business Oregon

Creative Mornings: Spencer Beebe

Spencer Beebe on climate change, farming and food systems

Creative Mornings

Wendy Culverwell: A big prize for a conservation legend

Spencer Beebe was honored last month with the National Audubon Society’s Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership

Portland Business Journal

Ecotrust’s Beebe lands $100k worth of environmental plaudits

A much-respected Portland sustainable business champion has landed a hefty prize for his body of work

Sustainable Business Oregon

Portland’s Ecotrust founder wins prestigious environmental prize

The founder of Ecotrust, a Portland-based conservation group, has been picked to win one of the world's most prestigious environmental prizes

OregonLive

As Oregon’s food industry flourishes, Ecotrust stands ready to help it grow

Ecotrust announced in September it would create a food business hub in Portland's Central Eastside Industrial District

Sustainable Business Oregon

This majestically decayed warehouse is incubating new ideas in food and business

Could Ecotrust’s new project be a new asset for Portland’s gastro-entrepreneurs and an example of enlightened capitalism?

Portland Monthly

Declaration of interdependence

Food hubs strengthen rural communities and ag markets.

The Furrow

Ecotrust named one of Oregon’s Most Admired Companies

CEOs rate the organization No. 7 among nonprofits in the state, in the Portland Business Journal's annual rankings.

Portland Business Journal

Meet Oregon’s 10 most admired nonprofits

It's been nearly a week, but the town's still buzzing about the Portland Business Journal's Oregon's 2014 Most Admired Companies awards

Portland Business Journal

Navigating a confluence of technology and sustainability

It’s a three-way marriage, if you will, among techies, data geeks, and conservationists

Built Oregon

Portland City Club: Is cultural revitalization the key to Native Americans’ economic prosperity?

Ecotrust and NAYA are co-hosting the event as part of a day-long celebration of Native successes

OregonLive

Timberland herbicide spraying sickens a community

Companies deposit thousands of pounds of herbicides each year on Oregon forests

High Country News

Ecotrust honors five indigenous standouts for environmental vision

Latest indigenous visionaries show extraordinary dedication to improving the economy and ecology of their respective homelands

Indian Country

Cities are the greatest hope for our planet

If we design cities like ecosystems, they would have the potential to address many of our most pressing issues

Ensia

Roberta Reyes Cordero, Indigenous Leadership Awardee

For nearly twenty years, she has helped the Chumash Nation reestablish a connection to its canoeing and seafaring roots, while actively pursuing ways to give tribal people a voice in marine planning in California.

News from native California

Report highlights fund managers with social impact

ImpactAssets has released its fourth annual online guide highlighting fund managers that deliver social or environmental impact benefits

Private Wealth

Ecotrust names honorees for Indigenous Leadership Award

Ecotrust today announced the honorees of the 12th annual Indigenous Leadership Award

Native American Times

Eco Rover: It’s hard to pin down Spencer Beebe

In another man’s biography, Spencer Beebe’s backcountry exploits might warrant some celebrity. For Beebe '74 M.F.S., they warrant footnotes

Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

See Portland the way landscape architects see Portland

The Ecotrust/Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center in the Pearl District is one of the stops on the American Society of Landscape Architects Guide to Portland

Portland Business Journal

Little eaters grow in the garden, seeding the future of the food movement

The story on the growing farm to preschool movement.

Civil Eats

Ecotrust president leaving to run wide-reaching social impact group

Astrid Scholz will resign to run the Resilience Exchange, a “global initiative to accelerate the pace of social change” that she actually started

Sustainable Business Oregon

State Parks and Recreation officially acquires Beltz property

The property consists of woodlands, dunes, oceanfront and both fresh- and saltwater marshes

Tillamook Headlight Herald

Portland’s Redd building will incubate food businesses

Ecotrust intends the former warehouse and stamping building to become a start-up place for food-related businesses

Capital Press

Portland’s Redd building will incubate food businesses

In foodie Portland, another business will help rural producers market to urban consumers.

Capital Press

Portland’s ‘foodpreneurs’ get their own accelerator

Forge Portland, a community-based accelerator and coworking space in downtown Portland, is launching a food accelerator program

Portland Business Journal

Ecotrust buys building in inner Portland to create food business hub

Portland Business Journal/ Sustainable Business Oregon

Ecotrust buys Central Eastside warehouse, plans manufacturing-focused redevelopment

The Oregonian

Tillamook County’s Sand Lake becomes state natural area

The 900-acre Sand Lake is a gorgeous, mysterious, wild-salmon laden and relatively undeveloped natural area

Crag Law Center

Tillamook County’s Sand Lake site of new 357-acre state park natural area

Oregon will add a significant piece of Tillamook County to its state park system when 357 acres, including one mile of Pacific Ocean shoreline, comes into public ownership next week

Oregonian

A good leap forward

Can local be global?

Oregon Business

Oregon’s newest state park was almost a golf course

Just a few minutes of walking onto the 357-acre Beltz Property brings you into one of the largest intact estuaries on the Oregon Coast

Statesman Journal

Portland and Beaverton school districts struggle to get chicken raised without antibiotics

The key word here is chicken raised without antibiotics

Oregonian

Tonight in music: Tycho, Alela Diane, the Doubleclicks

For the past few Thursdays, Ecotrust has been celebrating summer with their Sundown events, which offer free live music

Portland Mercury

John Lennon said it best: ‘Living is easy with eyes closed’

Entrepreneurs are busy at work all around the world helping drive the transition to more regenerative economies

Huffington Post

Preschoolers taste summer

Whether fresh berries or snappy green beans, children at Oregon preschools are tasting more local food bounty this summer than ever before

Chinook Observer

Students go whole hog with farm-to-cafeteria cooking

The program breaks the normal bounds of food in school and has created a whole new arena for students to learn

Civil Eats

Tonight at Ecotrust’s free Sundown concert: the Builders and the Butchers

The third installation in Ecotrust's free Sundown Concert Series takes place this evening in the courtyard of the organization's Pearl District headquarters

Oregonian

Water at Sundown

A Portland environmental organization is helping restore crucial watersheds by investing in projects that have the greatest chance of success

Chinook Observer

Spencer Beebe on the moment in history he wishes he’d witnessed

The Ecotrust founder was the recipient of the National Audubon Society's Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership.

Sustainable Business Oregon

An estuary preserved: 6 things to know about Oregon’s next park

The deal helps the state meet its goal of securing sites that offer a unique glimpse into Oregon’s environmental culture

Sustainable Business Oregon

Oregon Parks and Recreation moves to purchase new coastal parklands in Tillamook County

Classified as a relatively pristine estuary, Sand Lake is the only remaining estuary of its size on the Oregon coast that is dominated by a diverse set of native plant associations, due to very little agricultural or commercial development.

Oregonian

‘Pristine’ Oregon property sale could lead to the coast’s next state park

The 357 acres, at the county’s south end, is billed as “an unparalleled stretch of coastal open space.”

Portland Business Journal

Two Portland organizations reap $90 million in New Markets tax credits

A subsidiary of Ecotrust this month was awarded $90 million in New Markets Tax Credits, which it will use to invest in redevelopment projects

Oregonian

Oregon groups land $90M to spur rural investment

Ecotrust CDE, a division of Ecotrust, received a $35 million allocation, bringing its total since 2005 to more than $200 million

Sustainable Business Oregon

Ecotrust continues impressive charity rating streak

Ecotrust's streak earned praise from Ken Berger, Charity Navigator’s president and CEO

Portland Business Journal

Vote for standouts in Portland food scene

Ecotrust’s seventh annual Local Hero Awards is once again asking the public to vote for their favorite food and beverage entrepreneurs

Portland Tribune

Timber town

What’s happening at the Illinois Valley mill signals a shift in timber management in Oregon

Oregon Business

Calling out the climate delayers

With the impacts of climate change all too real, delay and denial are indistinguishable.

Miami Herald

Celebrate socially responsible food with BBQ (and beer!)

Edible Portland and Ecotrust will host their 7th annual Local Hero Awards

Portland Monthly

Where should the divestors invest?

We need to direct capital to disruptive innovations that can fundamentally transform our economy and deliver broadly shared benefits.

Common Dreams

Conserving landscapes and ecosystems with private investment

Private investors are finding new opportunities to invest in large-scale conservation efforts intended to protect biodiversity and boost "ecosystem services" such as clean water, clean air and carbon storage.

Huffington Post

Sandy River project hopes to hook salmon

The Upper Sandy River Basin Habitat Restoration Project's goal is to recover the salmon and steelhead populations that have diminished since a 1964 flood

Portland Tribune

Portland restaurant and bar events — Week of 5/14 – 5/20

On June 12, Edible Portland and Ecotrust will be holding the 7th annual Local Hero Awards to celebrate local food heroes

Oregonian

Scaling up conservation finance: takeaways and videos from the practitioners workshop

The focus was on ideas that are scalable and repeatable and that generate returns for investors.

Impact Alpha

Fresh Thinking with Ecotrust

We have all been in buildings that seem to have a certain vibe, a soul even - teeming with positive energy

Portland Radio Project

Women of Influence 2014: meet Ecotrust’s Astrid Scholz

Some thoughts from Astrid J. Scholz, Ecotrust's president

Portland Business Journal

Study tallies economic risks of Oregon coal export project

A study released Thursday by coal export opponents tallies the economic risks of barging coal down the Columbia River

Jefferson Public Radio

Which 3 Portland B Corps are ‘Best for the World’?

Three Portland-area companies are among the best in the world for social and environmental impact, according to the 2014 "B Corp Best for the World" list

Portland Business Journal

The best businesses for the world in 2014, according to B Lab

B Lab's alternative "Fortune 500 list" highlights 92 businesses that have the biggest social bottom lines

Fast Company

Sawmill brought back to life

Phillippi says the mill plans to reopen this summer, thanks to some federal tax credits and a state business loan.

750 KXL

With 67 jobs in tow, Cave Junction sawmill reopens

With backing from an Ecotrust subsidiary, a 92-year-old Southern Oregon sawmill is back in business after a year off.

Sustainable Business Oregon

Oregon governor announces funding to reopen sawmill

The governor has announced a $5 million funding package made up of tax credits and a state loan that will allow Josephine County’s last sawmill to reopen by converting to cutting small logs from forest thinning and ecological restoration projects

The Herald/ HeraldNet

State, federal funds will re-open Rough & Ready

Southern Oregon's withered timber industry receives a boost.

Medford Mail-Tribune

Governor announces funding to reopen sawmill

The Rough & Ready mill is upgrading equipment to mill small logs that are available from thinning and forest restoration projects.

San Francisco Chronicle/ SFGate

Nearly a year after ‘heartbreaking’ closure, Cave Junction sawmill will reopen, retool with $5 million in government backing

Rough & Ready sawmill will reopen nearly a year after it closed, adding back dozens of jobs to a pocket of rural Oregon where one in 10 are out of work.

The Oregonian/ OregonLive

Southern Oregon Sawmill To Reopen Thanks to State Help

Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber announced a $5 million finance package that will allow a Southern Oregon county's last sawmill to re-open.

Jefferson Public Radio

Rough & Ready Lumber opens their doors this summer

Creative financing and government support enabled the Phillippi’s to reopen the mill, which has been closed for nearly a year now and was the last sawmill in Josephine County.

KAJO

Oregon will help reopen lumber mill

Owner Link Phillippi says the upgraded mill will be more automated, employ 67 people, and process about the same amount of timber.

The Columbian

Governor announces funding to reopen sawmill

The governor announced Friday a $5 million funding package made up of tax credits and a state loan that will allow Josephine County’s last sawmill to reopen.

Washington Times

Governor announces funding to reopen sawmill

The governor has announced a $5 million funding package made up of tax credits and a state loan that will allow Josephine County's last sawmill to reopen by converting to cutting small logs from forest thinning and ecological restoration projects.

Corvallis Gazette-Times

Kitzhaber: Funding for Rough & Ready mill to reopen

The governor announced a $5 million package that will allow Josephine County's last mill to reopen.

The Daily Courier

Rough and Ready Timber Mill to Reopen

Bulldozers are hard at work at the Rough and Ready mill in Cave Junction to prepare for what will become a newer, more efficient operation.

KDRV Channel 12

Rough & Ready Lumber Co. will reopen with state loan

Southern Oregon's withered timber industry got a boost Friday when Gov. John Kitzhaber announced the reopening of Rough & Ready Lumber Co. in Cave Junction.

Hispanic Business

Kitzhaber announces strategy to reopen a shuttered sawmill

The governor announced Friday a $5 million funding package made up of tax credits and a state loan that will allow a Josephine County sawmill to reopen.

The Bulletin

Kitzhaber announces funding to reopen sawmill, saying it is vital to healthy forests

The governor announced Friday a $5 million funding package made up of tax credits and a state loan that will allow Josephine County's last sawmill to reopen.

The Tribune

Governor announces funding to reopen Josephine County sawmill

The governor announced today a $5 million funding package made up of tax credits and a state loan that will allow Josephine County’s last sawmill to reopen.

The Register Guard

Governor announces funding to reopen sawmill

The governor announced Friday a $5 million funding package made up of tax credits and a state loan that will allow Josephine County's last sawmill to reopen.

Houston Chronicle

Governor announces funding to reopen sawmill

The governor announced Friday a $5 million funding package made up of tax credits and a state loan that will allow Josephine County's last sawmill to reopen.

Seattle Post Intelligencer

Network your philanthropy: Dynamic relationships are the future of philanthropy

An international coalition of partners, including Ecotrust, is co-designing an online tool to distill complex social solutions into shareable building blocks that span various contexts.

Philanthropy Impact

Ecotrust’s Kristen Sheeran talks climate change and resilience with Al Jazeera

What would it take to create a truly resilient solution to climate change? E3 Economist Kristen Sheeran discusses the long-standing implications of global climate change.

Al Jazeera

Fixing old water and gas pipelines would create far more jobs than building Keystone XL

It seems as if we’re collectively out on the street and Keystone XL is the only offer to come along. Not true.

Grist

Our Misplaced, Undemocratic Budget Priorities: The Case of Keystone XL

Wouldn't it be better to have a jobs program that created things we really need, rather than things we don't?

truthout

How To Build A Local Food System, To Make Local Food Actually Work

If good, local food is going to compete with industrial giants, it's going to have to do more than just have people making small batches by themselves.

Fast CoExist

Ecotrust’s newest forest fund off to a good start

Ecotrust’s forest management arm has raised about one-third of its funding goal.

Sustainable Business Oregon

Ecotrust receives USDA farm to school grant

Ecotrust has received a nearly $100,000 federal grant to develop a statewide online tracking system for the farm to school program.

Capital Press

Fair fish on San Francisco Fisherman’s Wharf

San Francisco Community Fishing Association leads the West Coast in fair and sustainable fishing.

Earth Island Journal

Spencer Beebe on using nature as an example

Why save temperate rain forests? Spencer Beebe discusses the importance of saving our temperate rain forests and why we need to be more radical in our environmental approaches.

Forces of Nature

Edible Portland’s Underground Airwaves takes to the air

In "Portland News to Chew," Portland Monthly's Eat Beat covers the launch of Edible Portland's new podcast.

Portland Monthly Magazine

Age of disruption

Ecotrust Food & Farms director Amanda Oborne discusses China, climate change, and food system issues.

Oregon Business

How to get your nonprofit board on board with your for-profit venture

Staying operational when donations and grant funds are down is a common hardship many nonprofit organizations (NPOs) face.

The Able Altruist

Wyden measure could boost ecological forestry

Sen. Ron Wyden has taken a positive step toward reimagining how we manage our forests.

Sustainable Business Oregon

Upgrading existing pipelines would create more Jobs than building Keystone XL, report argues

Replacing infrastructure on existing water and natural gas pipelines could provide more short- and long-term jobs than building Keystone XL would, according to a new report.

Climate Progress

Mobile apps: a path back to traditional fishing knowledge

Over time, informed harvest decisions can chart a persistent and balanced approach to managing dwindling resources that people depend on for food and economic security.

National Geographic Society

How some chefs have stopped cooking so much Salmon and learned to love trash fish

The Chef’s Collaborative message is simple: Expand the palate.

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Meet SBO’s 2013 Innovation in Sustainability Award winners (Photos)

Ecotrust wins local Innovation in Sustainability Award

Sustainable Business Oregon

Feasting on ‘trash fish’ for sustainability

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Ecotrust’s spinoff of for-profit Point 97 reflects national diversification of non-profits

When Portland's Ecotrust, the environmentally and socially focused non-profit, this month spun out Point 97 as a for-profit subsidiary, it contributed to the increasing hybridization of the non-profit world.

Oregonian

From farm to table

Building local infrastructure to support local food

Orion Magazine

With farm to preschool program, kids get a head start on healthy eating

This offshoot of the farm to school movement helps shape good eating habits before kids even reach elementary school.

Mother Nature Network

Sustainable Alpha: Ecotrust’s long-term forest vision

Here's Wrenn's conversation with Amrita Vijay Kumar and Bettina von Hagen of Ecotrust Forest Management.

Sustainable Business Oregon

When can impact investing create real impact?

Although it is possible for impact investors to achieve social impact along with market rate returns, it's not easy to do and doesn't happen nearly as often as many boosters would have you believe.

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Oregon to help World Bank fix nation’s ocean issues

A World Bank panel is calling for public-private partnerships to improve the health of the world's oceans.

Sustainable Business Oregon

Marine core: Ecotrust hits the open water with new for-profit venture

Ecotrust revealed this morning it will spin out its marine consulting group into a company called Point 97. The entity will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Ecotrust.

Sustainable Business Oregon

A new kind of forestry fund

Most investment funds that own woodlands make their money when the trees are cut down and carted off. Ecotrust Forest Management, based in Portland, Ore., also profits from the natural habitat left untouched in the forest.

Barron's

School food success: Oregon lawmakers pledge to spend +$1M on local Ingredients

Oregon had major cause to celebrate this past July, when after years of advocacy and education on the part of school districts, food producers, and community partners, state lawmakers voted unanimously to allocate over $1 million in funding to farm to school and school garden programs.

Civil Eats

Oregon’s first tea crop goes to market

An article in the latest issue of Edible Portland tells the story of Minto Island Growers, a farm outside of Salem that started Oregon’s first tea plot in 1989.

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Q&A: Ecotrust’s Jeanne Kubal – the connection between ‘music, green living, and community.’

Ecotrust's Jeanne Kubal discusses the Sundown Concert Series

Oregon Music News

Oregon farm to school funding balloons to $1.2 Million

Funding for Oregon’s Farm to School and School Gardens programs is on track to reach $1.2 million in state funding in the 2013-15 biennium.

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Ecotrust’s Astrid Scholz on competition, hiking and Mars

Astrid Scholz is the subject of the Executive Profile feature which runs Friday in the Portland Business Journal.

Sustainable Business Oregon

Tonight in music: The Oblivians, Sundown at Ecotrust, Kepi Ghoulie & more

Tonight in Music: Sundown at Ecotrust

Portland Mercury

Ecotrust concert series in Pearl District opens with Onuinu, Adventure Galley

Ecotrust's fourth annual Sundown at Ecotrust concert series begins this evening with Onuinu -- disco-pop, disco-hop, electronic-groove -- at Ecotrust's Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center.

Oregonian

Berry pie to berry barbecue sauce at Oregon Berry Festival in the Pearl District

The third annual Oregon Berry Festival returns to the Ecotrust Building in the Pearl District this weekend, featuring pies, cobblers and jams, as well as children's activities and live entertainment.

Oregonian

Sundown at Ecotrust concert series | free, outdoor concerts, Wednesdays in July

Sundown celebrates the intersection of music, green living and community.

PDX Pipeline

Spoils of the sea elude many in an Alaska antipoverty plan

Ed Backus, from Ecotrust, discusses the Community Development Quota Program in Alaska.

The New York Times

Holy Mackerel! Fish could come back to Fisherman’s Wharf

With the help of a $250,000 grant from the Ocean Protection Council and support from environmental nonprofit Ecotrust, SFCFA also has been able to lease a warehouse on Pier 45 to store its catch, as well as invest in a hoist, freezers and fork trucks.

San Francisco Business Times

Fair Fish: San Francisco fishermen shake up the docks with community model

Northern California’s salmon season is in full swing and on San Francisco’s Pier 45, a two-year-old fishermen’s cooperative, the San Francisco Community Fishing Association, is upending a fishing industry dominated by 800-pound gorillas and consolidation.

National Geographic

Save the dates: Ecotrust summer Sundown concert series

Ecotrust Summer Sundown Concert Series

Green Hammer

1st Thursday: Makers & Shakers atop Ecotrust building

On a very sunny First Thursday in June Ecotrust and Edible Portland invited Portlanders to meet the makers and shakers behind our city's world-class food scene.

byronbeck.com

Ecotrust announces lineup for Sundown concerts

Ecotrust has announced the lineup for their summer event series, Sundown, which is a sort of street-fair/concert to celebrate and raise awareness for green living.

Portland Mercury

Best businesses for the planet? See who tops B Lab’s list

Ecotrust Forest Management named top Micro-Enterprise.

Good.is

Brightworks, Ecotrust, Joinery among B Lab enviro honorees

Four Oregon companies have received kudos from the nonprofit B Lab for their environmental acumen.

Sustainable Business Oregon

B Corp best for environmental impact honorees

Ecotrust Forest Management named B Corp Best for Environmental Impact honoree

B Lab

Win tickets ($40): Makers & Shakers summer kickoff @ Ecotrust | cocktail samples, bites, music, rooftop views

We are giving away a pair of tickets to the Makers & Shakers Summer Kickoff at Ecotrust on Thursday, June 6, 2013.

PDX Pipeline

Portland gets to show off its neighborhood growth skills

Representatives from eight cities gathered at Portland’s Ecotrust building Tuesday for a workshop designed to train municipal leaders on the art of neighborhood revitalization.

Sustainable Business Oregon

Edward Norton lauds Ecotrust Forests fund

Edward Norton discusses Ecotrust Forest Management's model

Conservancy Talk

Q-and-A: Ecotrust’s new food chief Amanda Oborne on local eats

Amanda Oborne took over as Ecotrust's new director of food and farms on April 1.

Sustainable Business Oregon

Farm futures: private equity goes organic

Farmland LP, a private equity fund in Oregon, is upending the traditional (some would say dysfunctional) financial model that leads to those nightmares while practicing sustainable, organic and pasture-based farming methods to boot.

Oregon Business

A new future for Oregon forests

How innovative loggers and environmental capitalists are redefining timber.

Portland Monthly

Ecotrust gets $45 million in New Market credits

An Ecotrust subsidiary has landed $45 million in tax credit financing for projects in rural communities.

Sustainable Business Oregon

‘Do The Math’ documentary tackles climate change on Earth Day

Bill McKibben’s “Do the Math” documentary will be shown at Ecotrust.

Portland Tribune

The business model of Ecotrust with Spencer Beebe

Spencer Beebe, Founder and Chairman of Ecotrust, and author of Cache: Creating Natural Economies will speak about the unique business model utilized by Ecotrust.

Stanford Business Alumni Association

67 businesses honored as ‘Best for the World’ for creating most overall positive social and environmental impact

Companies Across 20 Countries and 25 Industries Recognized As Leaders in Redefining Success in Business

CSRwire

Best for the World: the ranking that companies are queuing up to earn

It's not all about money. The number of corporations interested in benefiting society as well as their shareholders is growing

The Guardian

Finding the World’s ‘Best’ Social Entrepreneurs

Today, B Lab is releasing its second annual list of companies that score in the top 10 percent on its assessments, what it calls the “Best for the World” list.

BusinessWeek

The best businesses for the world, according to B Lab

The sustainable certification organization has released a ranking of the companies that do the best on its assessments, from solar power to investment advice to Afghan telecoms.

Fast Company

Ecotrust’s forest team nabs B Lab praise

The Ecotrust outfit’s forest management team has landed a coveted honor from the group that acknowledges sound business practices.

Sustainable Business Oregon

Q&A with Astrid Scholz, President of Ecotrust

Astrid Scholz is interviewed by Sara Horowitz about Ecotrust

Freelancers Union

Oregon delivers local seafood from boat to school

A grant stemming from the 2011 Farm to School & School Garden Bill allowed Bend-area schools to add seafood to the mix of local food offerings for a few months this year.

Oregon Public Broadcasting

A building not just green, but practically self-sustaining

Profile of the Bullitt Center in Seattle

The New York Times

Collaboration key in the future of sustainability

The future of sustainability, as both a commercial and practical concept, depends largely on businesses’ abilities to work with each other.

Sustainable Business Oregon

Struggling to sustain an industry’s identity

Ecotrust, the groundbreaking Portland-based environmental and economic development nonprofit, is in the business of backing disruptive innovations that help the planet.

Sustainable Business Oregon

Who’s hungry? Who’s thirsty? Ecotrust food winners deliver the edible goods

Ecotrust’s quarterly magazine has revealed the six winners of the Edible Portland Local Hero awards.

Sustainable Business Oregon

Ecotrust honors 6 sustainable food heroes

Edible Portland, a magazine published by environmental nonprofit Ecotrust, holds a Local Food Hero contest every year to recognize businesses that go the extra mile for social, environmental and economic sustainability.

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Brats and brews celebration

Ecotrust gets transformed into a beer hall to celebrate the Local Hero Award winners with a feast of sausage and lager.

Portland Mercury

Ecotrust’s ‘food heroes’

Conservation and community development organization Ecotrust will hold a benefit this Thursday, March 21, where they'll present awards to Portland's "Local Food Heroes."

Eater PDX

Ecotrust’s Local Hero Award ceremony

Ecotrust’s Local Hero Award Ceremony will benefit food & farming

Portland Monthly

Ecotrust to be transformed into beer hall for Local Hero Awards

Ecotrust, an agency working to build a robust regional food system, and Edible Portland have teamed up to honor the outstanding farms, restaurants, nonprofits and businesses at the annual event.

Oregonian

Catch shares leave fishermen reeling

Sweeping across the globe is a system that slowly and steadily hands over a $400 billion ocean fishing industry to corporations. The system, called catch shares, in most cases favors large fishing fleets, a review of the systems operating across the United States shows.

The Bay Citizen

Ecotrust considers an expanded Natural Capital Fund

It may not be common for a nonprofit to run its own investment fund, but Spencer Beebe didn’t establish Ecotrust 22 years ago with a goal to fit in.

Sustainable Business Oregon

North Pacific council talks Gulf of Alaska trawl bycatch

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council modified its purpose and need statement regarding Gulf of Alaska trawl fleet bycatch at its Portland meeting, and asked for an expanded discussion paper on those issues.

Alaska Journal of Commerce

Ignoring climate change hurts economy

Knowledge comes from seeing past missteps clearly. But we won't learn the lesson failure offers unless we acknowledge what is going wrong.

Press of Atlantic City

Sheeran: Our economy depends on climate action, hold Barack Obama to his promise

In his inaugural address, Obama promised action on climate change, and we all must hold him to that promise.

Newsday

Centennial School District uses state farm-to-school grant to buy local produce and meat for student meals

A new "from scratch" lunch will be made with locally produced foods in Centennial School District cafeterias.

Oregonian

Super Bowl “Farmers” ad: heartfelt and misleading

Hearing Paul Harvey’s voice and seeing pictures of those incredible farmers and their families struck a chord.

Civil Eats

School grants awards

The Oregon Department of Education has announced it has awarded 11 Oregon school districts $189,140 in grants for farm-to-school and school-garden programs.

Capitalpress.com

Oregon awards farm-to-school grants

Department of Education awarded 11 school districts $189,140 in farm-to-school and school-garden grants.

Oregon Business

Small bites: Blind-Tasting Bingo, more food events and contests

Ecotrust and Edible Portland magazine are bringing back Blind-Tasting Bingo.

Oregonian

More Oregon school districts land farm-to-school grants

Eleven school districts will share $189,140 in state funding to purchase Oregon-grown food and implement garden-based education programs in their schools.

Sustainable Business Oregon

Joseph Stiglitz and the World Economic Forum: Making the Connection Between Climate Change and Economics

On Monday the World Economic Forum (WEF) kicked off in Davos.

Huffington Post

Stiglitz and the WEF: Making the Connection between Climate Change and Economics

The World Economic Forum kicks off in Davos this week.

Common Dreams

A delicious blind date

Ecotrust is bringing back their popular Blind Tasting Bingo events, featuring Portland's top women chefs and a chance to put your senses to the test.

Portland Monthly

Program to put Alaska-grown food into local schools sees success in 2012

Two years ago, Alaska’s Farm to School Program was just getting started. In 2012, the program reached more than 20,000 students.

newsminer.com

Sharecroppers of the sea

As Alaska's deadliest catches become more regulated, "slipper skippers" exploit those who actually fish.

Seattle Weekly

Ecotrust: conservation through community economic development

Ecotrust helped Alaska fishermen accomplish a drop in bycatch by partnering with them to create the Alaska Sustainable Fisheries Trust.

National Geographic

Beebe will remain involved at Ecotrust

Spencer Beebe is leaving the job he invented two decades ago, but the father of Portland’s Ecotrust wants everyone to know he’s not going far.

Portland Business Journal

Beebe not going far as Ecotrust plans further growth

Spencer Beebe is leaving the job he invented two decades ago, but the father of Portland’s Ecotrust wants everyone to know he’s not going far.

Sustainable Business Oregon

Best of 2012: top voices blog posts from the year

This year, some of our top news stories of the year led to our most-read Voices blogs, along with some new ideas.

Sustainable Business Oregon

Spencer Beebe hands over the reins at Ecotrust

Ecotrust announced Thursday that Spencer Beebe, the organization's founder and president, would assume the role of board chairman.

Portland Business Journal

Ecotrust founder Spencer Beebe moving to board chairman, handing over president’s role

Spencer B. Beebe, Ecotrust's founder and long-time president, has stepped down as president but will become chairman of the organization's board.

Oregonian

Ecotrust to honor indigenous leaders tonight at Portland Art Museum

Ecotrust celebrates distinguished Native national and international leaders working to improve social, economic and environmental condition of their people at the Portland Art Museum tonight.

Oregonian

Social Venture Society raising VC fund, hosting conference

Some 200 entrepreneurial types will gather in Portland for Hacking Social Impact, an event put on by the newly formed Social Venture Society, which is in the midst of raising a venture capital fund to back startups that have social benefit goals.

Sustainable Business Oregon

Farm-to-school program shows off benefits

Farm-to-school and garden programs surpass lawmaker's expectations

Capitalpress.com

Ecotrust partners with donatables to bring social giving to Facebook

Donatables is excited to announce its most recent partnership with Ecotrust

PRWeb

Sherrie Sprenger attends Planting Seeds of Change lunch

Farm to School program takes legislators to lunch

Albany Democrat-Herald

Local foods get a lift through innovative online distribution hub

Portland-Oregon based Ecotrust and Boston-based Organic Renaissance FoodEx are creating an online matchmaking and on-the-ground logistics solution

SustainableBusiness.com

Local food distribution goes bi-coastal with new partnership

New partnership between FoodHub, Ecotrust, and OR FoodEx

treehugger.com

Makah tribal chair honored by Oregon environmental nonprofit

The chairman of the Makah Tribal Council is one of five indigenous tribal leaders from across the Western U.S. recognized by a Portland, OR.-based nonprofit

Peninsula Daily (Port Angeles, WA)

Dauenhauer named State Writer Laureate

Nora Marks Dauenhauer of Juneau has been named Alaska’s State Writer Laureate

JuneauEmpire.com

Foodhub and FoodEx take on industry giants to distribute food sustainably

Collaboration between the two ventures has the power to shake up highly inefficient ways of transporting food

The Guardian

Restoring the forests

Can restoration activities replenish and improve Klamath’s economy?

Herald and News

Ecotrust Forest Management named top impact investment fund

A panel of experts named Ecotrust Forest Management to its annual list of experienced private debt and equity impact investment fund managers.

Sustainable Business Oregon

FoodHub launches joint venture with Boston group

Ecotrust's FoodHub and OR FoodEx of Boston are joining forces to address one of the biggest issues faced by growing regional food networks: distribution.

Portland Business Journal

Watershed restoration, the new job growth sector

Restoration work is providing jobs while improving river habitat

National Geographic

New study: overfishing costs southeast and Gulf Regions millions per year

Overfishing is bad economic policy

Huffington Post

Overfishing has hurt the Gulf’s economy, report says

Decades of overfishing in the Gulf of Mexico have stripped the five-state region of tens of millions of dollars in economic activity

Houston Chronicle

Southeast suffered millions in economic losses from overfishing

The Southeast sustained tens of millions of dollars in economic losses during a five-year period because years of overfishing depleted species

Fly Rod & Reel Magazine

Study says fishing limits working for red snapper

A new environmental study says that overfishing has cost Gulf fishermen millions of dollars in the past five years

Pensacola News Journal

‘Food hubs’ connect school districts with farmers

California-based Ag Link allows school districts to communicate with nearby farmers and buy their produce with the click of a mouse

The Business Journal

‘Food hubs’ connect schools with farmers

California-based Ag Link allows school districts to communicate with nearby farmers and buy their produce with the click of a mouse

The Sentinel

‘Food Hubs’ connect school districts with farmers

California-based Ag Link allows school districts to communicate with nearby farmers and buy their produce with the click of a mouse

Huffington Post

‘Food hubs’ connect school districts with farmers

California-based Ag Link allows school districts to communicate with nearby farmers and buy their produce with the click of a mouse

The Boston Globe

Conservation projects create jobs in Oregon, Ecotrust study shows

In a nation where it seems the line is drawn --jobs vs. environment -- a new study by the conservation group Ecotrust says you can have both.

Oregonian

Human gains from fish restoration

Watershed and fish habitat restoration projects in Oregon generated $977.5 million in economic activity and as many as 6,483 jobs between 2001 and 2010

Fish News EU

Habitat restoration brought Oregon $977M in economic activity, Ecotrust reports

Watershed and fish habitat restoration projects generated $977.5 million in economic activity and created some 6,483 jobs between 2001 and 2010

Sustainable Business Oregon

New cohort chosen for Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Award

Five tribal leaders from the Pacific Northwest were announced today as finalists for the prestigious Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Award

Native American Times

Software platform Madrona introduced as planning tool

Madrona essentially is a planning tool that can help decision makers create road maps for navigating complex puzzles

Daily Journal of Commerce

Ecotrust releases open source tool for complex decision makers

Ecotrust released an open source software platform that will be used to support collaborative processes for complex decision making

Sustainable Business Oregon

FoodHub uses online social networking to get farm-fresh food to school cafeterias

Ecotrust launched FoodHub, a social networking tool that revitalizes regional agriculture by helping farmers and buyers find one another online

Civil Eats

Rio: let’s unleash the power of people back home

Ecotrust's Spencer Beebe discusses the Rio Earth Summit

Grist

Marine reserves in Australia, California gather steam

The Australian government announced Thursday that it is creating the world’s largest network of marine reserves

The Washington Post

FoodHub returns to the White House

Director of Ecotrust's FoodHub returns to the White House to emphasize role that the website plays in connecting rural farmers with urban pocketbooks

Sustainable Business Oregon

Portland charities No. 5 in financial integrity

Portland ranked fifth in the nation for the financial strength of its largest charities

Portland Business Journal

Creating value with mobile apps

Astrid Scholz discusses creating value with mobile apps

Oregon Business

And now, the complete Feast Portland lineup, revealed!

Feast Portland unveiled the complete lineup and event schedule for its upcoming Bon App-sponsored food and wine festival

PDX Eater

Zoë Bradbury rallies the new farmers’ movement

Zoë Bradbury left her job at Ecotrust, where she was a regular contributor to Edible Portland, to start farming on Oregon’s southern coast

Civil Eats

River rally rocks the planet

Cathy Kellon and Kate Carone from Ecotrust talked about the Whole Watershed Restoration Initiative

Huffington Post

A look at the new farmers’ movement

Zoë Bradbury talks about her new book and her life at Valley Flora Farm in Langlois

Sustainable Business Oregon

Partnering with Nature: how one city’s growth could be greened

Brent Davies highlights a new report, Partners With Nature, that tallies up the potential for increasing biocarbon

Climate Solutions

Farmers’ markets move online

Online Farmers' markets extend a vital lifeline to local growers and help satisfy the needs of food shoppers who care about the quality of their food

Huffington Post

Farmers markets move online

Regional, web-based services to connect small-time growers to consumers are popping up around the country

Yes!

Ecotrust: Watershed projects bring economic boost

Habitat watershed and fish habitat restoration projects generated $977.5 million in economic activity and created some 6,483 jobs between 2001 and 2010

Portland Business Journal

New national Community Fisheries Network includes Port Clyde group

Fourteen community fishing associations from Maine to Alaska have banded together to start the national Community Fisheries Network

The Free Press

Ecotrust helps launch Community Fisheries Network

Ecotrust announced Wednesday that it helped to launch a new national organization that will promote regional fisheries

Sustainable Business Oregon

National Community Fisheries Network launches promoting “community-caught” seafood brands

Today marks the beginning of a new era in community-based fishing in America

Saving Seafood

Economically, we are what we eat

This is the second installment in a series about the concept of import substitution by Bob Wise

Sustainable Business Oregon

A revolution in the lunch line – changing school lunches

This week’s Whole Food Market’s Consumer Conflict Speaker Series focused on healthy eating in our schools

GoodFood World

Columbia biogas: a great opportunity for Portland

Columbia Biogas has been planning a Northeast Portland facility that will convert commercial food waste into renewable energy and sustainable fertilizer

Sustainable Business Oregon

Marine Stewardship Council certification worth the trouble for Alaska fisheries

Seafood world has been abuzz with the news that the Alaska salmon industry has pulled out of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification process

Alaska Dispatch

FoodHub makes second trip to White House

Amanda Oborne, acting director, participated with some 60 other industry leaders in a conversation about the importance of local food

Sustainable Business Oregon

Triple bottom line thinking (Ed Backus interview)

Ed Backus, Vice President of community ecosystem services discusses Ecotrust and marine initiatives

Future of Fish

Jobs of the future

Ecotrust examines the jobs challenge

Huffington Post

National Ocean Policy: Let’s work together to manage marine resources

Health and resilience of marine environment is crucial to maintaining a diverse suite of economic, social and environmental benefits that we all depend on

Oregonian

Ecotrust 2012 Indigenous Leadership Award Call for nominations

Nominations are open for Ecotrust's 11th annual Indigenous Leadership Award

Native American Times

Deborah Kane lands federal farm-to-school post

Deborah Kane, former Ecotrust vice president was named head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm to School initiative

Sustainable Business Oregon

350 square miles of California water soon to be restricted fishing areas

A plan to protect ocean health by restricting fishing in some areas takes effect in Southern California in just a few days

89.3 FM KPCC

Spotlight Durban: an island nation’s call for gifts to the world

Another in a Triple Crisis and Real Climate Economics Blog series on the Durban Climate Change Conference

Triple Crisis

Editorial: environmentalism is mainstream

Regional and community-based organizations are a growth sector

The Daily Astorian

To advance their cause, foundations buy stocks

A growing number of foundations are using such investments, known as P.R.I.’s, to connect with profit-making ventures that advance their missions

The New York Times

Honoring elders of Salmon Nation

Earlier this month, five outstanding tribal leaders from Salmon Nation were recognized during this year’s Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Awards

First Peoples

Ecotrust honors NW Native leaders in presence of National Congress of American Indians Convention

Ecotrust celebrated the life and accomplishments of five native leaders chosen by senior tribal leaders for Ecotrust’s 2011 Indigenous Leadership Awards

Indian Country Today

Pigsley receives Indigenous Leadership Award

During the past 34 years, Delores Pigsley has become the most recognized voice of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians

South Lincoln County News

Indigenous Leadership Awards from Ecotrust honors Delores Pigsley

Her work to restore the Siletz and its culture, as well as improving health care and job opportunities, earned Pigsley the 2011 Indigenous Leadership Awards

Oregonian

Are green buildings really saving energy?

A leader in the nationwide green building movement, Portland is pushing the envelope when it comes to the use of cutting-edge sustainable building materials

Oregon Business

Too good to fail

Why did ShoreBank fail? And what lessons can be learned from its 37-year record of innovation?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Ecotrust marks 20, looks beyond the Northwest

Ecotrust celebrates its 20th birthday this week by hosting a delegation of global leaders and presenting a report to Gov. John Kitzhaber

Sustainable Business Oregon

Oregon leverages New Markets Tax Credits

Since 2003, Ecotrust has used $122 million in New Markets Tax Credits to leverage business investments in rural Oregon

Sustainable Business Oregon

Overfishing 101: it ain’t over till it’s over

Everyone loves a good comeback story, but sometimes a storyline emerges prematurely

National Geographic

Ecotrust to host panel discussion in Northwest Portland on resilience

Ecotrust is hosting a panel discussion next week in Northwest Portland about how resilience in social, economic and environmental areas can change the world

Oregonian

Going with the flow

Sucker Creek restoration aims to give native fish a fighting chance

Mail Tribune

Chart: the cost of chronic overfishing vs. the BP oil disaster

Overfishing occurs without much drama. But as the numbers show, its impact on fish is Deepwater Horizon-sized—and then some

The Atlantic

Oregon’s Deborah Kane talks policy with secretary of agriculture, meets President Obama

Deborah Kane, vice president of food and farms for Ecotrust, was one of 18 at the grass-roots roundtable to share and discuss the most pressing rural issues

Oregonian

FoodHub unveils facelift, readies to go national

Ecotrust online website FoodHub took the wraps off new design Tuesday, introducing some new functionality to its growing marketplace for business of food

Sustainable Business Oregon

Faces & visions of the food movement: Helene York

Helene York is educator and coach for Bon Appétit Management Company, the socially responsible food service company operates more than 400 on-site cafés

The Faster Times

Portland’s message: good food connects rural growers to urban eaters and makes both healthy

Deborah Kane is among 19 people invited to talk with the Obama administration about strengthening rural communities and promoting economic growth

Oregonian

Ecotrust VP to talk food at White House

Deborah Kane will be at the White House next week to brief the Obama Administration on how to strengthen rural communities and promote economic growth

Portland Business Journal

New maps seek the best places for wave energy

State planners are developing a series of maps designed to flag the lesser-used places as potential sites for marine renewable energy projects

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Ecotrust manager creates new forest ownership option

Brent Davies: 'The rapid land ownership changes are clear even in my lifetime'

Capital Press

Catch Shares

Ecotrust issued a report with 16 recommendations to strengthen the resilience and prosperity of fishing communities under a new national catch share policy

Fishermen's News Online

Environmental group touts catch shares as fishing suit is heard

Environmental group conducted a conference call with national media, promoting its release of a report supporting the catch share system

South Coast Today Standard-Times

National panel releases recommendations on communities and catch share policy

A national panel on “the Community Dimensions of Fisheries Catch Share Programs” released its recommendations today

Environmental Defense Fund

Ecotrust study lauds carbon storage of Oregon forest

Ecotrust cities the results of a carbon analysis study conducted by the organization for the Oregon office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Sustainable Business Oregon

Oregon farmers and groups win Progress Awards from the state agriculture department

Outstanding Cooperator: Ecotrust and its Food and Farms Program, which links local food producers and consumers

Oregonian

Fishing interests zero in on enviros’ role

Investigations through federal Inspector General's office corroborated concern over way enforcement agents used excessive tactics in penalizing fishermen

Gloucester Times

FoodHub offers free trial membership

FoodHub celebrated first birthday Wednesday by waiving the $100 annual membership fee for anyone who wants to try the service for the next three months

Sustainable Business Oregon

Ecotrust backs new markets

Struggling rural towns got a $60 million boost in 2010 from the federal New Market tax credit program and Portland-based Ecotrust CDE

Oregon Business

It’s time to ditch sustainability

Sustainability as a concept has good intentions, but the term itself has become so co-opted that it now gets in the way of real efforts

Sustainable Business Oregon

ShoreBank acquisition closed by OneCalifornia

Monday morning saw the announcement by OneCalifornia Bank that it completed the acquisition of ShoreBank Pacific from ShoreBank Corporation

Sustainable Business Oregon

Ecotrust helps create jobs

Ecotrust CDE has allocated over $60 million in tax credits to businesses that are creating green jobs in struggling timber communities

Oregon Business

Ecotrust subsidiary funnels $60M in federal tax credits

Ecotrust CDE LLC allocated more than $60 million in New Markets Tax Credits in 2010 to Northwest businesses that are creating "green" jobs in rural areas

Sustainable Business Oregon

Oregon forest-products companies add jobs, restore environment with Ecotrust’s allotment of tax credits

Ecotrust CDE has allocated more than $60 million in new-markets tax credits to Northwest businesses that are creating green jobs

Oregonian

Tijuana River mouth one of 36 new Marine Protected Areas

The California Fish and Game Commission vote nearly doubles the area under the guardianship of the Marine Life Protection Act

Imperial Beach Patch

State doubles size of region’s marine reserves

Underwater state parks to nearly double in size in Southern California under plan approved by California’s Fish and Game Commission to boost ocean health

San Diego Union-Tribune

Demarketing Alberta

In the guise of environmentalism, U.S. foundations are spending millions to stop oil tankers along the B.C. coast

Financial Post

Lawmakers tie NOAA funds to catch hikes

Alliance of Massachusetts' lawmakers asked for help of Congressional leaders to leverage responsive action to raise fishermen's catch limits

Gloucester Times

Ecotrust founder’s book hits shelves

Ecotrust announced Tuesday the availability of "Cache: Creating Natural Economies." Written by Ecotrust founder Spencer Beebe

Sustainable Business Oregon

Google’s new Earth Engine good for NW

Google Earth Engine could help forest managers and researchers in Pacific Northwest get a better handle on how changes are affecting the region's forests

Sustainable Business Oregon

Human/Nature

In a new autobiography, renowned Portland conservationist Spencer Beebe charts his 40 years of balancing civilization and the natural world

Portland Monthly

NOAA affirms catch share push in face of industry fire

The Obama administration Thursday formalized its commitment to a national "catch share policy"

Gloucester Times

NOAA: this way to safe, sustainable fisheries

Today, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced a new commercial fisheries policy: Catch shares for everyone

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Farmer-Chef Connection links chefs to local food producers

The October mixer at the InterContinental Montelucia Resort and Spa drew more than 150 local farmers, distributors, chefs and restaurant owners

The Arizona Republic

Grow food, will travel

How rancher Scot Laney became Oregon’s alternative food taxi service

Willamette Week

Ranchers form food distribution service

Phil Greif and Scot Laney realized they were spending too much money trucking their products to Portland farmers markets, so they formed Eat Oregon First

Oregon Business

Revolutionary road

A Great New American Dream is blooming down the shimmering waters of the Willamette river

Hard News

Indulge? Why Yes, I Did

Getting stuffed for a good cause rules!

KGW Channel 8

How to buy and cook salmon, America’s sweetheart fish

It's among the most ubiquitous seafood, but take a look at different varieties and find incredible flavor

Salon

Oregon nets $1.76 million from USDA

Oregon's specialty crops industry received a healthy dose of financial fertilizer on Friday from the United States Department of Agriculture

Portland Business Journal

Does Healthcare Cash Grow on Trees?

More than a third of US forests are family-owned, and most of those owners want to pass their land on to the next generation

Ecosystem Marketplace

Are we there yet? Track salmon recovery online

Website launched by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and Ecotrust is supposed to make it easier for the public to track salmon recovery efforts online

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Oregon fisheries eye community model

What started with the organic food movement has quickly morphed into a deep consumer analysis of what we eat, and why

Sustainable Business Oregon

Community forest more about protecting than cutting

Mayor, Beresford clarify misinformation about logging plans around Whistler

Pique News Magazine

FoodHub is fast becoming the “Facebook of local food”

FoodHub pairs food service professionals who want to buy local food with growers and processors wanting to sell it

Oregonian

Murdock Trust awards more than $7M

M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust in its latest grant distribution has awarded 37 grants totaling more than $7 million to nonprofits

Portland Business Journal

School meals

Agenda's first course should be quality and access

Oregonian

Sitka’s Community Supported Fisheries shortens the distance between local fishermen and local plates

Wild Alaska seafood often travels great distances with a few layovers before arriving at the dinner table of seafood lover

Capital City Weekly

How to Build a Better Climate Policy

Congress has -- once again -- considered a new climate and energy bill, and then blinked, instead of passing it

Oregonian

Food factory

Portland’s schools are cooking up plans for healthier lunches

Portland Monthly

Hopes run high for Portland’s ecoroofs

Hopes ran high for the ecoroof on the Ecotrust building

Oregonian

Cheakamus Community Forest seeking highest certification

Officials with Ecotrust were in Whistler to evaluate the Community Forest's potential for certification under guidelines by the Forest Stewardship Council

Pique News Magazine

Ecoroof redux at Ecotrust

Enviroscapes Northwest completed a 10-day, $68,244 total replacement of the Jean Vollum Natural Capital Building's 6,000-square-foot ecoroof

Sustainable Business Oregon

Resistance on the waterfront

Catch shares proving to be very hard sell

Gloucester Times

The key to salmon (and financial) survival: Diversity

Population diversity within a species is critical to maintaining the long-term health of a fishery

Alaska Dispatch

Obama’s choices on energy and climate

When President Obama addresses the nation he will undoubtedly discuss broader energy challenges facing the nation

The New York Times

News Analysis: NOAA chief inconsistent on Gulf oil, catch shares

Fishing interests say they see inconsistency in the different degrees of scientific skepticism applied on fishing and oil spill issues by Jane Lubchenco

Gloucester Times

NOAA and ‘catch shares’: don’t allow massive handout to fishing industry

In what amounts to the wholesale privatization of the nation's fisheries, NOAA will give set quotas of the catch to private fishing businesses

Oregonian

Catch shares programme takes off amid concerns

Ecotrust's Fair Catch report lays out 10 ways the government can improve its catch share programme

Fish Info & Services

Pew urges thoughtful approach to catch shares in light of new report on west coast trawl fishery proposal

Pew Environment Group commented on a new study by Ecotrust that found design concerns in the proposed West Coast trawl fishery catch share program

PR Newswire

Ecotrust funds restoration projects in Grays River

Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce (CREST) was recently awarded $40,000 to begin conceptual designs for three restoration projects in the Grays River

Wankiakum County Eagle

Jobs watch: the best in green

Adam Lane, CFO and COO of Ecotrust, speaks on mission-based prosperity

Oregon Business

Frank steps up press for fishery changes

Congressman Barney Frank is giving the Commerce Secretary until next week to redress fishing industry grievances

Gloucester Times

Calling Oregon filmmakers: what does whole watershed restoration mean to you.

Call for a short film of 10 minutes or less that focuses "on the human, ecological and economic benefits of whole watershed restoration in the Northwest"

Oregonian

Ecotrust launches film contest

The Stories From Our Watersheds Contest is offering prizes for film shorts that capture how watershed restoration is helping communities in the PNW

Willamette Week

Enviro group launches input sessions on catch shares

Ecotrust announces plans to undertake its own national research study of the controversial Obama administration policy

Gloucester Times

Visualizing Earth’s shared assets

Andrew Revkin discusses the need to test new ways of conveying information revealing the growing human influence on the Earth, for better or worse

The New York Times

New Ecotrust tool provides path to carbon markets for forest owners

Ecotrust created the first certified methodology for London-based Voluntary Carbon Standard that will provide forest managers with a new tool

Sustainable Business Oregon

An algae comic and resources for watersheds and climate change impacts

Looking back one, two and five years ago today on Worldchanging

Worldchanging

The catch share gain that wasn’t

Writer with EDF ties clouds figures

Gloucester Times

Fishing for answers

Is hatchery fishing a good thing or not?

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Oregon experts discuss protecting wild salmon

Biologist Rich Lincoln worries that the fragile balance of endangered salmon runs are threatened by an outdated hatchery system

KGW Channel 8

Scientists in Oregon to discuss salmon safeguards

Hundreds of scientists from the Pacific Northwest, Russia and Japan are meeting to discuss how to manage salmon hatcheries

KREM 2

Northwest conference discusses protecting wild salmon

Hundreds of scientists from the Pacific Northwest, Russia and Japan are meeting in Portland this week to discuss how to manage salmon hatcheries

KOZE 950 AM

Oregon conference discusses protecting wild salmon

Biologist Rich Lincoln worries that the fragile balance of endangered salmon runs are threatened by an outdated hatchery system

The Seattle Times

The state of Pacific salmon? Not so wild

It is undeniable that salmon are much less abundant in the Pacific Northwest compared to what the region supported prior to European contact

Oregonian

Scientists gather to discuss ‘State Of The Salmon’

Hundreds of scientists from all around the Pacific Ocean are headed to Portland this week to discuss salmon hatcheries

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Portland: farm-fresh food

In February, Portland welcomed a new high-tech tool to bring large-scale, farm-fresh foods to city hospitals, public schools, corporate cafeterias

Fast Company

Food gets Portland on the Fast Cities list

Fast Company magazine continued its love affair with Portland's food scene by naming the city to its Fast Cities 2010 list for focus on farm-to-table food

Sustainable Business Oregon

‘A living classroom’ at Seven Oak

Kathryn Quanbeck, program specialist with the Western Regional Office of the USDA, visited as part of a “farm-to-school” tour this week

Albany Democrat-Herald

Mapping efforts lure rec anglers

Efforts to accurately map prime fishing grounds along the Oregon coast are now extending from commercial fishing to the recreational side of the equation

News Times

Mapping a vision for their lands

Does a place exist if it isn't on a map?

The Globe and Mail

Putting a price tag on the melting ice caps

Reports about the melting ice caps are distressing, but for the most part climate change remains abstract

Time Magazine

Whose ocean is this?

Marine issues were the topic at Siuslaw Watershed Council’s Ocean Issues Forum held March 31 at the Florence Events Center

Siuslaw News

Economists warn against setting price for carbon too low

In its first attempts to regulate carbon emissions, the U.S. government is hindering its own efforts by using flawed economic models

Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

Study: US setting cost of carbon perilously low

The US government is hurting its efforts to regulate carbon dioxide emissions by using flawed economic models

Greenbang

Economist network speaks up on carbon pricing

Environmentally concerned economists released a report warning Obama Administration may be working with a theoretical price for carbon that is too low

Sustainable Business Oregon

Oregon company taps California protocol to earn more by logging less

Ecotrust aims to reverse that trend of Industrial logging, tree farming, and clear-cutting altering some of North America’s most prized forests

Ecosystem Marketplace

Congressional panel wades into ‘catch share’ debate

Congressional subcommittee called for first public airing before federal lawmakers of the Obama administration

Gloucester Times

Eat-onomics with Deborah Kane of FoodHub, a Match.com for locavores

Think of it as the Match.com for the locavore movement: FoodHub connects small and regional producers with food buyers

Fast Company

Eat-onomics: the ten most inspiring people in sustainable food

The way America eats has to change, that's no secret. Thanks to the efforts of these ten trailblazers, that change might be closer than we think

Fast Company

Food Hub will connect local farmers with customers

A U.S. Department of Agriculture’s top official came to Portland to check out network meant to connect Northwest farmers and customers who love their food

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Online ‘Food Hub’ connects farmers with buyers

Federal agriculture official helped launch a web site in Portland this week to connect Northwest farmers with markets looking for locally grown food

Oregon Public Broadcasting

FoodHub links Northwest fresh food buyers with producers

Portlanders love their food and their farmers, and Ann Wright sees it as more than a passing crush

Oregonian

The “nature state” approach to reliable prosperity

Reliable peace and prosperity will elude humankind unless we embrace a fundamental shift in our relations with each other and the natural world

Sustainable Business Oregon

The best fish for the environment? frozen

It's actually better than fresh, he said, because it's flash frozen as soon as it's caught and then vacuum-sealed to preserve the flavor

Simple, Good and Tasty

Coming out of Copenhagen

Friday marks the last day of two weeks of the international climate change meeting that’s now become known by the city in which it’s being held: Copenhagen.

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Earth-friendly dining: eat frozen salmon

If the motivation is to truly make our diets more Earth-friendly, then perhaps we need a new mantra: buy frozen

Oregonian

NOAA steps up push for catch shares

Obama administration announced a full-speed-ahead commitment to converting the nation's fisheries to the "catch share" economic and regulatory system

Gloucester Times

Capitalists outline investment options for ‘catch shares’

Investment capital is almost certain to find role in conversion of fisheries from essentially common resources to privately managed fishermen's cooperatives

Gloucester Times

Ecotrust launches site that links food buyers and farmers

Ecotrust rolled out a long-awaited program that will hook up Oregon farmers, fishermen or food manufacturers with commercial buyers

Oregonian

Catch of the freezer

If the motivation is to truly make our diets more earth-friendly, then perhaps we need a new mantra: buy frozen

The New York Times

New global study: not all salmon are created equal

Food production, in aggregate, is considered to be the single largest source of environmental degradation globally

Triple Pundit

Wallace recognized for tribal leadership

Brian Wallace of the Washoe tribe was recognized by Ecotrust as one of the West's most innovative indigenous leaders

Lake Tahoe News

New report debunks the fresh fish fetish

The most important thing to know about that salmon on your plate is whether it's fresh or was frozen out at sea

The Seattle Times

Eat frozen food and avoid line-caught fish, says eco study

Enviro-profs studying the ecological impact of food production have come out with some counter-intuitive results

The Register

Fish sticks for everyone?

Why carbon pricing is easier than grocery shopping

Sightline Daily

Debunking our ‘fetish of the fresh’

You choose the fresh filets because buying local adds up to a bigger environmental and sustainable bang for your buck, right?

The Globe and Mail

New report takes aim at food ‘sustainability myths’

Preliminary results from a new study co-authored by Dalhousie University flip the idea of sustainable food on its head

Metro News Canada

InvestigateWest: frozen salmon have smaller carbon footprint than fresh

Eat your frozen salmon. Preferably wild, frozen salmon

Seattle PostGlobe

Frozen salmon better for environment, study says

Eating frozen fish instead of fresh is better for the environment. That's according to a new Portland based study

KGW Channel 8

Frozen salmon over fresh? Why, it’s better for the planet that way

Frozen salmon is better for the planet than fresh, because it takes so much less energy to make it safely to your dinner plate

Oregonian

Ecotrust studies salmon as a food commodity

We're going to talk next about the problem of feeding a growing population

Oregon Public Broadcasting

B.Y.O.G.

What we do need is myriad more ways to forge links between the growers and the eaters

Huffington Post

Ecotrust lands tax credits to benefit jobs and environment in Northwest’s rural, struggling communities

Rural and disadvantaged communities in the NW could receive economic boost thanks to $30 million in new markets tax credits allocated to Ecotrust

Oregonian

Northwest US receives $30m to innovate economic, social and environmental change

US Treasury has selected Ecotrust to allocate $30m in federal tax credits to innovative initiatives

NewEnergyWorldNetwork.com

Political “climate” must change to achieve a climate treaty

YES, the international negotiating climate must change dramatically if the Copenhagen Summit has to achieve a comprehensive climate change treaty

The Daily Star

Groups serving low-income and developing communities receive $130M in tax credits

Two Portland institutions and a SW Washington bank have been allocated $130 million to spur investments in low-income and developing communities

Portland Business Journal

Climate change: addressing a problem we can afford to solve

News on the climate front

Oregonian

Reducing carbon emissions even more remains economically viable

News on the climate front

The Washington Post

Marine protection plan will curtail S.D. catches

Task force meeting this week on proposed revisions

San Diego Union-Tribune

Healthy eating and America’s youth

USDA announced new national initiative to teach children where food comes from and create opportunities for local farmers to provide harvest to schools

City Club of Portland

The economics of 350

There is good news on the climate policy front

Grist

New report details costs of cutting greenhouse gas emissions

With enough technological advances, the world could dramatically lower level of greenhouse gas emissions

The Washington Post

Climate costs: can the world really afford to roll back carbon emissions?

By and large, even in Oklahoma, the debate over how to tackle climate change boils down to a simple question: How much is this going to cost?

Wall Street Journal

New report urges quick, aggressive action to stem carbon emissions

A group of economists have come up with a simple formula for climate stabilization: Pay now, or pay a whole lot more later.

Oregonian

The economics of climate stabilization

A group of eight leading climate economists has a message for United States senators now considering a bill to cap emissions

The New York Times

Climate change issue takes center stage

Political and business leaders from the Northwest to Washington, D.C. stepped into the spotlight Thursday on the issue of climate change

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Catch-share rejections cloud talks

A move is afoot within the federal fishery management system to increase the protection of cod and pollock from the majority of the groundfishing fleet

Gloucester Times

Catch-share rejections cloud talks

A move is afoot within the federal fishery management system to increase the protection of cod and pollock from the majority of the groundfishing fleet

Gloucester Times

‘Healthy oceans matter’ to this Administration says NOAA head

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration head, Jane Lubchenco emphasized the importance of putting a new ocean council in the White House

Oregonian

Venturing forth

John Haines disucusses how steering Mercy Corps’ efforts to prove loans work better than handouts to lift the destitute out of poverty

Portland Monthly

Oil fields and arctic ecology

Oil development in America's Arctic

The New York Times

Portland fermented

They are here to share information, troubleshoot and generally geek out at all things pickled here at Portland's first ever Fermentation Festival

Willamette Week

Pacific NW landowners team up to market forest offsets

Owners of forestland in the Pacific NW could benefit more under a national carbon offsets system

Grist

Quotas on the way to Oregon fisheries, bolstering stocks

It will be the first time the system - called catch shares or individual transferable quotas - has been tried on the West Coast outside of Alaska

Oregonian

Carbon offsets a wild card as environmental markets converge

A voluntary market for carbon offsets is even taking root in the absence of a national emissions cap

The New York Times

School lunch brings home the bacon

An experiment in subsidizing school lunches to use locally raised commodities pays off both in the cafeteria and in the regional economy, one study finds

Miller-McCune

Work begins to remove dam in Washington’s Wind River Watershed

The Hemlock Dam on Trout Creek will be removed this summer, restoring the stream's natural flow and improving habitat for native fish

Oregonian

Legislature should add fresh food to school lunches

While most school cafeterias are closed for summer break, House Bill 2800, Oregon's farm-to-school and school garden bill, is still cooking in Salem

Mail Tribune

Add fresh food to school lunches

While most school cafeterias are closed for summer break, House Bill 2800, Oregon's Farm to School and School Garden bill, is still cooking in Salem

Oregonian

Climate change: Answering the economic challenge

RealClimateEconomics.org makes a powerful case that "there is rigorous economic support for immediate, large-scale policy responses to the climate crisis"

Oregonian

Can the US afford cap-and-trade?

U.S. states vary only modestly in average incomes, but have widely differing per capita emissions

Renewable Energy World

Climate bill too critical to water down

Moving to a new, low-carbon society will be good for business, create more jobs, spur the kind of innovation that made American industry great

Columbia Daily Tribune

Navigating the fog of climate policy

Andrew Revkin discusses climate policy

The New York Times

Everybody talks about climate change, but what can we do about it?

Rob Manning reports on a new study from the Economics for Equity and the Environment Network, a team of Oregon-led scientists

Oregon Public Broadcasting

New web site reports greenhouse gas emissions

Economists on Thursday launched RealClimateEconomics.org and issued a new report on national household greenhouse gas emissions

Portland Business Journal

Economists launch website on the effects of climate change

A group of economists today launched RealClimateEconomics.org to support public policy and business responses to climate crisis

Oregonian

Economics for dummies

Ecotrust non-profit has partnered with Economics for Equity and the Enviroment ( the E3 Network) to form a new website: RealClimateEconomics.org

Willamette Week

Schools try local, fresher food

Bill would provide subsidy to help more districts buy from Oregon farms

Statesman Journal

The cost of climate change inaction

Robert J. Samuelson's April 27 op-ed, "Selling the Green Economy," was way off the mark on the economics of tackling climate change

The Washington Post

Green is their color

Umpqua Bank opens an Eco-banking division. Will it work?

Willamette Week

Oregon’s plate is full of sustainable food

What's on the horizon for sustainable food? Plenty

Oregonian

Earth Day: Investing in nature to invest in ourselves

Does the downturn finally present the opportunity to restore our economy based on new principles

Oregonian

Your climate-friendly kitchen

Take some simple steps toward a low-carbon diet

Oregonian

At your (green) service

Especially since Earth Day 1990, it's become good business to help people live greener lives. Here are a few Northwest services promising just that

The Seattle Times

Yuroks seek $20 million state loan for land

The Yurok Tribe has applied for a $20 million no-interest loan from the state that could secure the first part of a two-stage land deal

Eureka Times-Standard

MLPA economic study to be shown

Economic study reiterates the huge gap between fishing and environmental groups over marine protected areas and the wide range of potential economic impacts

San Diego Union-Tribune

School lunch crunch

Local foodies push Salem for lunch money

Portland Mercury

Oregon woodland owners consider selling carbon credits

Peter Hayes is among Oregon forest owners considering selling carbon credits to generate extra revenue from their land

Oregonian

The broccoli pulpit

A kitchen garden at the White House may inspire some to venture beyond corn and iceberg lettuce

Oregonian

Spend a few minutes with this film on growing a new economy

Some young professionals have used their free time and skills along with Ecotrust to produce this open source film about building local living economies

Willamette Week

Friedman, DC leaders hearing Oregon’s ‘green’ pitch

Oregon leaders are pressing hard to get attention for their sustainability efforts

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Tom and Fareed do Portland

After the lecture, Friedman adjourned to a Q&A session hosted by Ecotrust and featuring some 120 VIPs

Oregonian

Slow food moves faster on social activism

The movement once slighted as elitist now allies itself with such groups as farmworkers

Oregonian

Thomas Friedman coming to Portland State; tickets free but going fast

New York Times columnist and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman will give a public lecture at noon March 9 at Portland State University

Oregonian

AAAS: Climate-friendly fish

Many intangibles determine how big — or small — the carbon footprint is of that fish you're thinking about eating

Science News

150 books for Oregon’s Sesquicentennial

Including Salmon Nation

Oregon State Library

Anglers’ aid urged in sea-life effort

Goal is expansion of marine reserves

San Diego Union-Tribune

Ecotrust software charts best coastal fishing grounds

The Mellon Foundation has awarded Ecotrust $50,000 in recognition of its mapping software designed to chart the best coastal fishing grounds

Oregon Public Broadcasting

State using new tech device to manage fisheries

Ecotrust staffers examine GIS fishing maps of the northern California coast

San Francisco Chronicle

Spencer Beebe

Ecotrust founder has a plan to save the environment—and our economy

Willamette Week

Ecotrust looks to economics to save environment

Rob Manning reports on one organization’s attempts to rescue salmon, by going beyond traditional battle lines

Oregon Public Broadcasting

How the French boost their local producers

Christopher Delpech’s pig-farm products sell at both the local market and at the Safeway-like Super U

Straight.com

Oregon’s locally grown faces financial challenges

Transit costs force Northwest growers to pursue shipping efficiencies

Oregonian

An unlikely way to save a species: serve it for dinner

Gary Paul Nabhan and his book “Renewing America’s Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent’s Most Endangered Foods”

The New York Times

Disappearing foods: encouraging a comeback

“Renewing America's Food Traditions” by Gary Paul Nabhan, profiles 93 foods once common in American kitchens but now in danger of disappearing

The New York Times

A cautionary tale

Amid our green-building boom, why neglecting the old in favor of the new just might cost us dearly

Preservation

Ecotrust stirs up a new shade of green

Spencer Beebe's iconoclastic activists mix environmentalism with economic self-interest to create "conservation-based development"

Fast Company

In Chicago, a haven for green enterprise

Baum Development, says it already has commitments for nearly 30 of the 100 Green Exchange spaces

The New York Times

Food processors get together with Oregon school districts

Forging ahead with plans to bring together locally grown and processed foods with kids who receive meals at schools throughout the state

Bend Weekly

PPS seeks local supplies for lunches

Portland Public Schools is turning to local growers and companies to supply food for its lunch programs

Portland Business Journal

OHSU plants meals with local farmers

Oregon Health & Science University steps up its program of supporting Oregon farmers and growers by purchasing more seasonal and local produce and products

Portland Business Journal

Oregon school cafeteria makes it from scratch

The public school's scratch kitchen was the idea of Linda Colwell, a chef and a parent

National Public Radio

Putting your money where your heart lies

Community investing is the fastest-growing segment of socially responsible investing

The New York Times

Why eat locally?

Earthtalk answers the question: why do environmentalists advocate that people "eat locally"?

treehugger.com

Winona Laduke

The green activist takes on wild rice and the White House

Willamette Week

Haida leader to receive award

Guujaaw, president of the Council of the Haida Nation, will receive a $25,000 award for more than 30 years of work to improve the lives of the Haida people

Vancouver Sun

For sale: The West

Pacific Northwest just might hold on to some of its forests — forests that provide clean water, healthy habitat and jobs that allow people to work the land

High Country News

Group buys Tofino fish plant to retain jobs

In an effort to keep jobs and income in this western Vancouver Island community, a consortium of investors purchased a seafood processing plant and store

Vancouver Sun

Ecotrust taps industry vet to lead food, farm program

Nationally recognized sustainability leader Eileen Brady is stepping down from her post at Portland think tank Ecotrust

Portland Business Journal

Meet market

When fishermen and chefs hook up, you get great fish

Seattle Weekly

The greening of Ian Gill

Is Ian Gill the new face of the green movement?

BC Business

Ecotrust sees a forest full of possibilities

A local environmental activist organization wants to save the trees by logging them

Portland Business Journal

In the Northwest, salmon go swoosh

Salmon Nation

High Country News

Building on ideas for urban conservation

Renovation of the Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center

The New York Times

Summit to save the Earth: Rio’s legacy

Despite the squabbles, the Earth Summit could go down in history as a landmark beginning of a serious drive to preserve the planet

Time Magazine

Oregon Governor calls for a ‘Plan B’ for the Elliott State Forest

Gov. Kate Brown on Tuesday sought an new alternative to selling a state forest in southwest Oregon to the only bidder to offer the full asking price.

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Regenerative Qualities of the Redd on Salmon Street

The Redd on Salmon Street is a food project unlike any other, with a much more inclusive and wildly ambitious mission: to make regeneratively produced, locally sourced food a mainstay of the regional diet. ​

The Field Guide

Meat of the Matter: Rejuvenating Local Processing

Because pasture-raised and grass-fed meat from small farms is in increasingly high demand from consumers who want to know where their food comes from, including how it was raised, slaughtered and processed, it’s critical to the health and vibrancy of Oregon’s food system that small processors survive to serve them.

Good Stuff Northwest

What Does Real Change in Our Food System Look Like?

We have to learn to be conscious consumers, choosing to support local fishermen and community supported fisheries.

Close to Home: Environmental battles lost and won on Highway 101

The author explores the landscape of his youth, documenting the various partnerships that have worked to restore natural systems and support coastal communities.

Coast Weekend