Federal public-private Whole Watershed Restoration project receiving national spotlight
PORTLAND, Ore – A unique public-private collaborative effort to restore watersheds in the Northwest has received a national award from the U.S. Forest Service. The Whole Watershed Restoration Initiative (WWRI) has […]
Northwest bakery ISO local, organic peaches
PORTLAND, Ore. – This growing season, Northwest food producers and food buyers will begin utilizing FoodHub, a new online resource that simplifies the process of making connections with each other. Today, […]
USDA Undersecretary Ann Wright to visit Oregon to promote agency’s “Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food” Initiative
Portland, Ore. – Northwest food and farm leaders will welcome US Department of Agriculture Deputy Undersecretary Ann Wright to Oregon to learn more about the region’s innovative efforts in the […]
Native village of Eyak celebrates land donation
Cordova, Alaska — The Native Village of Eyak (NVE) has announced that property on Prince William Sound’s Mummy Island was donated to the village on December 7, 2009, by Ecotrust, a […]
Ecotrust awards $45,000 to Indigenous leaders
PORTLAND, Ore. – Ecotrust today recognized five of the West’s most innovative indigenous leaders for their efforts to improve conditions in their communities. The recipients were selected by a panel […]
Food Services of America encourages Oregon restaurants and schools to become members of FoodHub and resolve to source local in the new year
PORTLAND, Ore. – Now through the end of the year, Food Services of America (FSA) is offering all of its restaurant and K-8 school customers throughout Oregon an incentive to […]
Global study of salmon from Dalhousie University, Ecotrust, and the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology shows: “sustainable” food production isn’t so sustainable
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, PORTLAND, Ore., GOTHENBURG, Sweden – Popular thinking about how to improve food systems for the better often misses the point, according to the results of a three-year global […]
Northwest receives millions in federal tax credits
PORTLAND, Ore. – The U.S. Treasury has selected Ecotrust to allocate $30 million in new markets tax credits to innovative initiatives that create economic, social and environmental benefit in the […]
New website aims to transform the Northwest food economy
PORTLAND, OR – Somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, there is a food buyer trying to find the perfect parsnip and a farmer looking for a home for his cranberries. Beginning today, […]
Economists join to say: we can afford a world climate policy
PORTLAND, Ore. – America’s largest network of independent climate economists has issued a major new report showing that the more aggressive world leaders are in curbing world carbon emissions, the […]
Oregon School Board Association endorses Farm to School Bill
PORTLAND, Ore. – 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 with the latest […]
Enjoy a wine country 4th of July in the Willamette Valley and benefit Ecotrust’s Farm to School program
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Willamette Valley’s 150 Days of Wine in the Willamette Valley promotion continues throughout the summer, featuring a new event, Red, White & True Oregon Wines. Participating wineries and tasting […]
More than 100 economists band together to fight climate change skeptics
PORTLAND, Ore. – In recent times, junk economics has replaced junk science as the cause of inaction on climate change issues. The case for inaction is no longer argued on the […]
Oregon Farm to School and School Garden Bill (HB 2800) heads to Ways and Means Subcommittee
WHO: School food professionals, food manufacturers, students and farm to school experts will gather in Salem Tuesday afternoon to urge the Oregon Legislature to take full advantage of the school […]
A new era of conservation planning
ST. LUCIA, Queensland, Australia and PORTLAND, Ore. — Conservation planners often work in a black and white world: they are asked to determine whether an area should be set aside […]
House Agriculture Committee sees Farm to School Bill as a priority
PORTLAND, Ore. — Farm to school and school garden education programs are one step closer to blossoming throughout Oregon following a hearing yesterday of HB 2800 in front of the House […]
First public hearing for Farm to School Bill (HB 2800) set for 8 a.m., Thursday, April 2nd
WHO: Farmers, school food professionals, food manufacturers, health professionals and economists will gather in Salem on Thursday to urge the Oregon Legislature to invest in farm to school and school […]
Oregon lawmakers serve up a Bill that stimulates the state’s economy and fortifies school children
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Farm to School and School Garden Network, a statewide coalition of more than 100 organizations and individuals representing government, community-based, non-profit, and for-profit sectors, is championing […]
Farm to School investment yields a healthy return into state coffers
PORTLAND, Ore. — As state lawmakers search for ways to immediately stimulate Oregon’s malnourished economy, a new economic impact analysis proves that investing in locally produced foods for the school lunchroom […]
Media alert: leading experts to share vision for untangling global food + greenhouse gas conundrum at AAAS
CHICAGO, Ill. – The development, production and delivery of food accounts for roughly one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions. This presents a major climate-change conundrum, as global food production is on […]
Media alert: Thomas Friedman’s free lecture in Portland
PORTLAND, Ore. – Ecotrust, Portland State University and more than 30 other organizations have formed a coalition to bring Pulitzer Prize-winner, columnist, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas Friedman to Portland, […]
Letting fishermen be heard in the battle for the world’s oceans
PORTLAND, Ore. – In the battle over the care and use of the world’s oceans, one voice is often lost in the debate: that of the fisherman. A technology now exists […]
One-quarter of world’s sockeye salmon face extinction
Link to Executive Summary of IUCN Sockeye Assessment:http://www.stateofthesalmon.org/iucn/ https://ecotrust.org/press/ http://wildsalmoncenter.org/programs/sos.php Link to Sockeye Red Listing on IUCN Website: http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/135301/all One-Quarter of World’s Sockeye Salmon Face Extinction International Union for the […]
Grant from Kaiser Permanente Community Fund puts local food on the menu in Portland Public School and Gervais School Districts
PORTLAND, OR – The first school assembly of the new academic year will take place today at 10 a.m. at Atkinson Elementary in Southeast Portland, where school food and education leaders […]
Fishermen inform marine protection process
Portland, Ore. – If you want to best protect marine habitats for fish and other species, don’t forget to talk with the fishermen. That may be one of the key […]
New research tests effectiveness of California’s marine protected area design
Portland, Ore. – New research finds that fishermen’s expertise contributes to better design of marine reserves. Researchers compared the effectiveness of marine reserve designs in meeting the objectives of California’s […]
Buffett Award for Indigenous Leadership renamed, award cycle for 2008 suspended
Portland, OR – Ecotrust has suspended the 2008 award cycle for the annual Ecotrust (formerly Buffett) Award for Indigenous Leadership. The award recognizes indigenous leadership that improves social, economic, political […]
Ecotrust re-launches Inforain
Portland, Ore. – Ecotrust has re-launched its popular Inforain website, presenting an internet-based information system dedicated to knowledge integration in the areas of spatial analysis, web-based applications development and socio-economic assessment. Offering data for […]
Farm to School and Garden Bill on the move to 2008 special session
SALEM, Ore. – The Farm-to-School and School Garden Legislative Concept, LC 79, introduced yesterday to the House Education Committee, won unanimous approval to move forward to the Oregon State Legislature’s 2008 […]
Farm to School and School Garden pilot program proposed to Legislature
What: Hearing on a farm-to-school and school garden legislative concept When: January 23rd, 9:00 a.m. (check legislative schedule for changes) Where: Oregon State House, House Education Committee Room PORTLAND, Ore. – […]
The new “Guide to Local and Seasonal Products” makes sourcing local and regional food even easier
PORTLAND, Ore. — Just in time for the New Year, the expanded, revised and visually stunning 2007-2008 Guide to Local and Seasonal Products is here to motivate the region’s chefs and food buyers to […]
Ecotrust and Potter Productions join forces to share stories of food and farming in the Northwest
PORTLAND, Ore. — The nonprofit conservation organization Ecotrust and Portland-based film company Potter Productions, Inc., today announced a partnership to bring sustainability-focused food and farming stories to life through Potter Production’s […]
Ecotrust hosts talk by author of “Kitchen Literacy”
PORTLAND, Ore. — Ecotrust’s Food and Farms Program welcomes Oregon writer Ann Vileisis, Author of “Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to […]
Farm to School portal launched during National School Lunch Week
PORTLAND, Ore. – As a means to support community-based food systems, strengthen family farms and improve student health by reducing childhood obesity, the National Farm to School Network launched its new […]
Ecotrust receives $400,000 NOAA grant
PORTLAND, Ore. — Ecotrust’s Forestry Program will receive $400,000 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to restore important fish habitat in Washington and Oregon. This project is the result of […]
Buffett Award for Indigenous Leadership honors Northwest community leader and Museum Director Roberta Conner
Portland, OR – Ecotrust will present the 7th annual Buffett Award for Indigenous Leadership to Roberta Conner at a ceremony in Portland, Oregon on November 29, 2007. The ceremony will […]
Ecotrust chosen to lead Farm to School programs in the Western United States
PORTLAND, Ore. – Ecotrust Food & Farms Program has been selected to serve as the Regional Lead Agency (RLA) for the National Farm to School Network. As RLA, Ecotrust is charged […]
Ecotrust launches online learning community to seed regional food systems; connect food and farm community
PORTLAND, Ore. – In the recipe for creating food and farm networks, Ecotrust is proving that there may not be such a thing as “too many cooks in the kitchen.” The […]
Ecotrust adds Farm to School Manager
PORTLAND, Ore. – Ecotrust’s Food & Farms program has added Michelle Markesteyn Ratcliffe, Ph.D. to its team charged with bolstering the local food economy. As the new Farm to School manager, […]
The Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center is the first private building in Oregon to install waterfree urinals certified by the Oregon State Plumbers Board
PORTLAND, Ore. – The Portland Pearl District landmark, the Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center, installed four water-saving urinals donated by Falcon Waterfree Technologies last month. The non-profit conservation organization Ecotrust’s 2001 […]