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A crate full of ripe raspberries and blackberries.

Ecotrust names Oborne new Director of Food and Farms

“After a national search that yielded an impressive candidate pool, we were pleased to discover that the best candidate was right here in our midst,” Scholz said. Oborne joined FoodHub as sales and marketing director in 2010 and took over …

Oakley Brooks
March 28, 2013 18 March 2016

Inside the clam gardens, a source of coastal sustenance

In this story, Kwakwaka’wakw Clan Chief Adam Dick, known by his traditional name Kwaxsistalla, travels back to the clam gardens off

Oakley Brooks
March 26, 2013 02 December 2019

A group of fishermen changing boats on a river by a snowy mountain.

Shedding false labels: ThisFish tracking seafood to the source

With close to 30 seafood harvesters, and several large trade groups and retailers now partnering with ThisFish across Canada, the app is now gaining more acceptance. British Columbia officials delivered funding this week to promote it and make it more …

Oakley Brooks
March 14, 2013 29 July 2016

Steep mountains behind river

BC Sacred Headwaters freed from oil and gas development

British Columbia environmental, tribal and community groups earned a measure of self-determination yesterday in winning a ban on coalbed methane development in the headwaters region that feeds the mighty Nass, Stikine and Skeena rivers. Here’s the news from our friends …

Oakley Brooks
December 20, 2012 01 October 2014

Zoetrop sign from Mushroom Fair

In Portland: Get fungi

Dark and damp. These iconic qualities make the Pacific Northwest a perfect home for a teeming wealth of fungi and a rich community of mushroom experts. Both often exist just out of sight, despite contributing to our region’s liveliness, culture …

Oakley Brooks
November 29, 2012 01 October 2014

Landscape of Portland during the day

Local investing? An app for that

What if anybody could find investment opportunities in local and social enterprises, with the click of a mouse? ChangeXchange NW, a new website launched Nov. 8 by Portland-based Springboard Innovation,with support from New York’s Mission Markets, will facilitate just that, …

Oakley Brooks
November 13, 2012 23 April 2018

Alvin Roth at a dais talking into a microphone.

Alvin Roth: Real-world economist

Ecotrust offers its warm congratulations to collaborator and friend Alvin Roth, Stanford Professor of Economics and co-recipient (with Lloyd Shapely) of this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics. Roth is honored for his contributions to the field of market design and …

Oakley Brooks
October 16, 2012 01 October 2014

FoodHub meet market buttons

FoodHub goes East to build distribution network with OR FoodEx

FoodHub, Ecotrust’s online food marketplace, and Boston-based social venture OR FoodEx announced today their intention to partner on a new joint venture designed to overcome the single biggest barrier to building robust regional food economies: distribution. The new venture will …

Oakley Brooks
October 3, 2012 01 October 2014

Ecotrust Forest Management named a top impact investment fund manager

Ecotrust Forest Management, one of Ecotrust’s for-profit subsidiaries, has been selected for the ImpactAssets 50 2012 — an open-source, publicly published database of experienced private debt and equity impact investment fund managers. The ImpactAssets 50 2012 is a resource for …

Oakley Brooks
October 2, 2012 01 October 2014

blue sky, green grass, illustration, simple

FoodHub infographic captures local food/tech landscape

The team behind FoodHub, Ecotrust’s online marketplace that helps local food buyers and sellers connect, has just released Local Food/Tech Landscape, an interactive guide to innovation at the intersection of local food and technology. As Amanda Oborne, FoodHub’s director put …

Oakley Brooks
September 26, 2012 01 October 2014