Ronda Rutledge is Ecotrust’s first Indigenous executive director. The Portland nonprofit focuses on environmental stewardship and economic growth, especially among Pacific Northwest tribes.
Earlier this month, KCAW spoke with Brady, who was recognized for her work with the Herring Protectors, a local advocacy group that’s grown exponentially over the last seven years.
Ecotrust’s role will be to grow access and trust in USDA programs among farmers who’ve been historically underserved or discriminated against by the agency.
Ecotrust will partner with the center to improve the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s outreach to urban producers, provide education and technical assistance, and increase program enrollment
The Indigenous Leadership Awards is a celebration of the wisdom, determination, and continuum of Indigenous leadership throughout the Pacific Northwest, including British Columbia and southeast Alaska.
Ecotrust said Wednesday it has hired Ronda Rutledge as its executive director. Rutledge comes from Austin, where she was executive director of the Sustainable Food Center. She brings 25-plus years of experience of nonprofit work in California and Texas.
ZGF Architects’ Jacob Dunn shares his experience with mass timber projects, including conducting wood lifecycle analysis with support from research conducted by the Ecotrust team.
With OnPoint’s donation, Ecotrust will advance a more equitable and restorative regional food economy through its innovative food systems programming and spaces.
Two events in Southeast Alaska communities highlight work being done by Ecotrust and partners to strengthen community connections and indigenous foodways.
Stephanie Gutierrez, Forests and Community Program Director, offers a perspective on agroforestry: “[Agroforestry] is just a new way to describe something that Indigenous people have been doing for thousands of years.”
Fisheries and Food Systems Program Manager, Tyson Rasor, offers perspectives on opportunities around frozen fish, and assisting fishers in reaching new markets.
Ecotrust’s Director of Community Investments Sara Pietka shares perspectives on assessing potential New Markets Tax Credit investments within our “3E” framework of equity, economy, and the environment in a recent issue of Novogradac’s Journal of Tax Credits.
A proposal led by Sustainable Northwest and a collaborative of partners, including Ecotrust, has been awarded a $25 million grant from the US Department of Agriculture to support the climate-smart wood economy
In this expert Q&A, tribal ecologist Dr. Frank K. Lake offers his unique perspective to the topic of fire on the landscape and mentions a new agroforestry story map made in partnership with Ecotrust.
A publication from the State of Salmon, a joint program of the Wild Salmon Center and Ecotrust, is featured in this in-depth look at the history of fisheries to hatcheries.
Yakama Nation member Paul Lumley was among four tribal leaders in the Pacific Northwest honored with the 2022 Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Award. A ceremony is planned June 23 in Portland.
One of the three examples examined in this article is the partnership between the Swinomish Indian tribe and Ecotrust in developing a new forest management plan. The resulting Swinomish Forest Bank illustrates how ecosystem markets can be inaccessible to Indigenous peoples due to histories of land fractionation and presents a strategy that respects and acknowledges this history, while also creating new legal structures to enable that access.
A look at food hubs, including the Redd on Salmon Street, across the Pacific Northwest, the benefits they provide local food systems, and the challenges they’ve navigated during the COVID-19 pandemic
Sustainable Southeast Partnership’s (SSP) program director, Ralph Wolfe, Góos’k’, discusses the potential and limits of a $20 million dollar fund, with a mention to a study done by Ecotrust showing the impact of dollars invested in SSP.
