Ecotrust named Tech Award Laureate for innovative marine planning tools
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
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
BOSTON, Mass. – Starting this month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – which oversees U.S. fisheries – has kicked into high gear its program to fundamentally alter the way
PORTLAND, Ore. – Ecotrust today announced the approval of a methodology for launching forest carbon projects that will make it much easier for forest managers around the globe to participate
PORTLAND, Ore. – A collaborative managed by Portland-based Ecotrust seeks submissions of short films that focus on the human, ecological and economic benefits of whole watershed restoration in the Northwest.
PORTLAND, Ore. – Ecotrust today opened nominations for the annual Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Award, a recognition program for individuals who demonstrate durable qualities of leadership for improvement of social, economic,
PORTLAND, Ore. – A recent raffle and for-benefit fundraising effort by the Willamette Valley Wineries Association raised $2,500 for Ecotrust, a Portland-based non-profit. The proceeds benefit Ecotrust’s Farm to School
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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