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Ecotrust: Watershed projects bring economic boost

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  • Habitat watershed and fish habitat restoration projects generated $977.5 million in economic activity and created some 6,483 jobs between 2001 and 2010
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Conservation projects create jobs in Oregon, Ecotrust study shows

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  • In a nation where it seems the line is drawn –jobs vs. environment — a new study by the conservation group Ecotrust says you can have both.
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‘Food hubs’ connect school districts with farmers

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  • California-based Ag Link allows school districts to communicate with nearby farmers and buy their produce with the click of a mouse
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‘Food Hubs’ connect school districts with farmers

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  • California-based Ag Link allows school districts to communicate with nearby farmers and buy their produce with the click of a mouse
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‘Food hubs’ connect schools with farmers

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  • California-based Ag Link allows school districts to communicate with nearby farmers and buy their produce with the click of a mouse
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‘Food hubs’ connect school districts with farmers

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  • California-based Ag Link allows school districts to communicate with nearby farmers and buy their produce with the click of a mouse
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Study says fishing limits working for red snapper

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  • A new environmental study says that overfishing has cost Gulf fishermen millions of dollars in the past five years
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Southeast suffered millions in economic losses from overfishing

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  • The Southeast sustained tens of millions of dollars in economic losses during a five-year period because years of overfishing depleted species
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Overfishing has hurt the Gulf’s economy, report says

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  • Decades of overfishing in the Gulf of Mexico have stripped the five-state region of tens of millions of dollars in economic activity
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New study: overfishing costs southeast and Gulf Regions millions per year

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  • Overfishing is bad economic policy
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Watershed restoration, the new job growth sector

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  • Restoration work is providing jobs while improving river habitat
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FoodHub launches joint venture with Boston group

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  • Ecotrust’s FoodHub and OR FoodEx of Boston are joining forces to address one of the biggest issues faced by growing regional food networks: distribution.
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Ecotrust Forest Management named top impact investment fund

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  • A panel of experts named Ecotrust Forest Management to its annual list of experienced private debt and equity impact investment fund managers.
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Foodhub and FoodEx take on industry giants to distribute food sustainably

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  • Collaboration between the two ventures has the power to shake up highly inefficient ways of transporting food
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Restoring the forests

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  • Can restoration activities replenish and improve Klamath’s economy?
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Dauenhauer named State Writer Laureate

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  • Nora Marks Dauenhauer of Juneau has been named Alaska’s State Writer Laureate
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Makah tribal chair honored by Oregon environmental nonprofit

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  • The chairman of the Makah Tribal Council is one of five indigenous tribal leaders from across the Western U.S. recognized by a Portland, OR.-based nonprofit
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Local food distribution goes bi-coastal with new partnership

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  • New partnership between FoodHub, Ecotrust, and OR FoodEx
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Local foods get a lift through innovative online distribution hub

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  • Portland-Oregon based Ecotrust and Boston-based Organic Renaissance FoodEx are creating an online matchmaking and on-the-ground logistics solution
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Sherrie Sprenger attends Planting Seeds of Change lunch

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  • Farm to School program takes legislators to lunch
  • Albany Democrat-Herald