Portland, Ore. — Ecotrust will accept a Portland Business Journal/Sustainable Business Oregon Innovation in Sustainability Award on November 14, 2013. The award is part of an annual event honoring top

Portland, Ore. — Just in time for fall’s mushroom feasts, Ecotrust and Edible Portland have released a three-video series about Oregon mushroom foragers and farmers. The short videos were created

Portland, Ore. – This fall, Oregon school districts will reap local harvests in a big way, thanks to new funding from the Oregon Legislature. In the session concluded on July

San Francisco, Calif. and Portland, Ore —As a robust salmon season hits its peak in northern California, a growing San Francisco fishing cooperative is successfully demonstrating a new model for fishing,

Portland, Oregon — Just days after the public launch of a successful New Markets Tax Credit-supported project, Ecotrust has learned that its subsidiary, Ecotrust CDE, was awarded $45 million of additional

Portland, Ore. — Ecotrust announced today that it has earned an eleventh consecutive 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, the nation’s leading charity evaluator and most trusted information source for responsible giving. This

Portland, Ore. — Ecotrust today announced several changes to its governance and leadership team to adapt to what the organization sees as a changing landscape for mission-driven organizations. Founder Spencer

PORTLAND, OR. — Ecotrust announced today the winners of the 11th annual Indigenous Leadership Award, an honor bestowed on exceptional Native leaders who are working throughout the region to  improve the social,

Portland, Ore. – The team behind FoodHub (www.food-hub.org), the website that helps local food buyers and sellers connect, has just released Local Food/Tech Landscape, an interactive guide to innovation at the intersection of

PORTLAND, OR – A recent fundraising effort by Whole Foods Market raised nearly $18,000 for Ecotrust, a Portland-based nonprofit. The proceeds benefit Ecotrust’s Food & Farms program, which works to build

PORTLAND, OR, and WASHINGTON, DC – Expanding climate change mitigation approaches beyond greenhouse gases to also target related pollutants would have enormous public health benefits in the nation’s most disadvantaged communities,

Portland, Ore. – Ecotrust released data today that demonstrates how watershed and fish habitat restoration in Oregon creates jobs. Ecotrust found that restoration projects generated $977.5 million in economic activity and as many

PORTLAND, ORE. — Five forward-looking tribal leaders from across Western North America were chosen today as finalists for the prestigious Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Award. They are: Brian Cladoosby, Swinomish, La Conner,

PORTLAND, OR — How will we all thrive on a densely populated, rapidly changing planet? Today, Ecotrust launches Madrona, a new software platform for effective place-based decision making, to help planners and communities

Portland, Ore. — FoodHub director Amanda Oborne will return to the White House tomorrow to talk about the networking site’s growing success in finding new opportunities for rural food producers and buyers. Oborne

Portland, Ore. and Rockland, Maine — Today marks the beginning of a new era in community-based fishing in America, with 14 community fishing associations from Maine to Alaska banding  together to

Cordova, AK — In an effort to help local citizens and resource managers better understand the watershed in which they live and work, Ecotrust has created an online information hub for

PORTLAND, Ore – FoodHub’s acting director Amanda Oborne will join U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan and 60 other local and regional food leaders at the White House today for

PORTLAND, OR — Nominations are open for Ecotrust’s 11th annual Indigenous Leadership Award, recognizing native leaders dedicated to improving the social, economic, and environmental conditions of their homelands. Since 2001, Ecotrust

Portland, Ore — Former Ecotrust Vice President of Food and Farms Deborah Kane was today named head of the U.S Department of Agriculture’s Farm to School program. Kane will draw on

PORTLAND, Ore – Online wholesale food market FoodHub has been named a finalist for the Google-sponsored Interaction Award, a prestigious international design award for outstanding digital works that embody and improve meaningful relationships

SAN JOSE, Calif. and PORTLAND, Ore – Ecotrust has been named as a laureate of The Tech Awards 2011, one of 15 global innovators recognized each year for applying technology

Portland, Ore – The Whole Watershed Restoration Initiative (WWRI), a public-private partnership focusing on salmon habitat restoration in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, released its first economic data today on job

PORTLAND, OR — Ecotrust announces today the five native leaders chosen by a panel of senior tribal leaders and key staff to be honored at the 2011 Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership

PORTLAND, Ore. – For the second consecutive year, the Willamette Valley Wineries Association (WVWA) has teamed up with Ecotrust’s Farm to School program as the fundraising beneficiary of their annual Memorial

PORTLAND, OR – Need a place to concentrate and relax? Would you like to spend at least a month in a peaceful, coastal hide-away surrounded by a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve?

PORTLAND, Ore. – Ecotrust today announced the results of a carbon analysis for Oregon’s Elliott State Forest. The study evaluated potential carbon storage under a range of forest management scenarios, and

PORTLAND, Ore. – FoodHub, the online marketplace where Northwest wholesale food buyers and sellers connect and conduct business, turns one today. Recognizing that this dynamic platform’s ability to catalyze and facilitate

PORTLAND, Ore. – Ecotrust CDE, a for-profit subsidiary of the nonprofit Ecotrust, today announced that it allocated more than $60 million in new markets tax credits this year to Northwest

PORTLAND, Ore. — Ecotrust today announced the publication of Cache: Creating Natural Economies, a book by Ecotrust founder Spencer B. Beebe that calls for the creation of “natural economies” and new

PORTLAND, Ore. — Ecotrust today announced that it is awarding $40,000 to four innovative indigenous leaders in the western U.S. and Canada who work to improve conditions in their communities.

Demand for healthy, local or regionally produced food is at an all time high. Yet every year, Oregon ranchers, farmers and specialty food manufacturers in rural communities continue to go

PORTLAND, Ore. – FoodHub, the online directory and marketplace that connects food buyers of all types and sizes with farmers, ranchers, fishermen and food manufacturers throughout the greater Northwest, has blossomed and matured

PORTLAND, Ore. – Ecotrust has named Amanda Oborne as the first sales and marketing director for FoodHub, its online marketplace designed to match regional food buyers such as restaurants, grocers, schools, institutional

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Stories From Our Watersheds film has awarded $4,100 to seven independent Northwest short films (10 minutes or less) that highlight large-scale, high-priority, fish-and-community-friendly restoration projects in Oregon, Washington

PORTLAND, Ore. – A recent for-benefit fundraising effort by the Willamette Valley Wineries Association raised $5,000 for Ecotrust, a Portland-based non-profit. A total of 34 wineries participated in the annual

New Seasons Market is making FoodHub membership an easy catch for Northwest fishers angling for more wholesale and restaurant buyers. Starting today, the Portland-area grocery store will underwrite 50 percent

PORTLAND, Ore. – With a desire to sustain and regionalize the Northwest food economy, ten regional businesses are generously underwriting portions of an annual FoodHub membership fee for hundreds of potential users.

PORTLAND, Ore. – (World Oceans Day) – As Congress convenes an oversight panel to probe the regulatory failures that preceded the equipment failure in the Gulf, another federal agency is

PORTLAND, Ore. – Ecotrust today announced that it has earned an eighth consecutive 4-star rating from Charity Navigator for the organization’s ability to efficiently manage and grow finances. Only one percent