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An algae comic and resources for watersheds and climate change impacts

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  • Looking back one, two and five years ago today on Worldchanging
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New Ecotrust tool provides path to carbon markets for forest owners

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  • Ecotrust created the first certified methodology for London-based Voluntary Carbon Standard that will provide forest managers with a new tool
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Visualizing Earth’s shared assets

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  • Andrew Revkin discusses the need to test new ways of conveying information revealing the growing human influence on the Earth, for better or worse
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Enviro group launches input sessions on catch shares

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  • Ecotrust announces plans to undertake its own national research study of the controversial Obama administration policy
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Ecotrust launches film contest

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  • The Stories From Our Watersheds Contest is offering prizes for film shorts that capture how watershed restoration is helping communities in the PNW
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Calling Oregon filmmakers: what does whole watershed restoration mean to you.

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  • Call for a short film of 10 minutes or less that focuses “on the human, ecological and economic benefits of whole watershed restoration in the Northwest”
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Frank steps up press for fishery changes

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  • Congressman Barney Frank is giving the Commerce Secretary until next week to redress fishing industry grievances
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Jobs watch: the best in green

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  • Adam Lane, CFO and COO of Ecotrust, speaks on mission-based prosperity
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Ecotrust funds restoration projects in Grays River

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  • Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce (CREST) was recently awarded $40,000 to begin conceptual designs for three restoration projects in the Grays River
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Pew urges thoughtful approach to catch shares in light of new report on west coast trawl fishery proposal

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  • Pew Environment Group commented on a new study by Ecotrust that found design concerns in the proposed West Coast trawl fishery catch share program
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Catch shares programme takes off amid concerns

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  • Ecotrust’s Fair Catch report lays out 10 ways the government can improve its catch share programme
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NOAA and ‘catch shares’: don’t allow massive handout to fishing industry

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  • In what amounts to the wholesale privatization of the nation’s fisheries, NOAA will give set quotas of the catch to private fishing businesses
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News Analysis: NOAA chief inconsistent on Gulf oil, catch shares

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  • Fishing interests say they see inconsistency in the different degrees of scientific skepticism applied on fishing and oil spill issues by Jane Lubchenco
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Obama’s choices on energy and climate

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  • When President Obama addresses the nation he will undoubtedly discuss broader energy challenges facing the nation
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The key to salmon (and financial) survival: Diversity

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  • Population diversity within a species is critical to maintaining the long-term health of a fishery
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Resistance on the waterfront

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  • Catch shares proving to be very hard sell
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Cheakamus Community Forest seeking highest certification

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  • Officials with Ecotrust were in Whistler to evaluate the Community Forest’s potential for certification under guidelines by the Forest Stewardship Council
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Ecoroof redux at Ecotrust

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  • Enviroscapes Northwest completed a 10-day, $68,244 total replacement of the Jean Vollum Natural Capital Building’s 6,000-square-foot ecoroof
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Hopes run high for Portland’s ecoroofs

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  • Hopes ran high for the ecoroof on the Ecotrust building
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How to Build a Better Climate Policy

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  • Congress has — once again — considered a new climate and energy bill, and then blinked, instead of passing it