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See Portland the way landscape architects see Portland

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  • The Ecotrust/Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center in the Pearl District is one of the stops on the American Society of Landscape Architects Guide to Portland
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State Parks and Recreation officially acquires Beltz property

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  • The property consists of woodlands, dunes, oceanfront and both fresh- and saltwater marshes
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Portland’s Redd building will incubate food businesses

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  • Ecotrust intends the former warehouse and stamping building to become a start-up place for food-related businesses
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Portland’s ‘foodpreneurs’ get their own accelerator

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  • Forge Portland, a community-based accelerator and coworking space in downtown Portland, is launching a food accelerator program
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Ecotrust buys building in inner Portland to create food business hub

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Ecotrust buys Central Eastside warehouse, plans manufacturing-focused redevelopment

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Portland and Beaverton school districts struggle to get chicken raised without antibiotics

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  • The key word here is chicken raised without antibiotics
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John Lennon said it best: ‘Living is easy with eyes closed’

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  • Entrepreneurs are busy at work all around the world helping drive the transition to more regenerative economies
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Oregon’s newest state park was almost a golf course

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  • Just a few minutes of walking onto the 357-acre Beltz Property brings you into one of the largest intact estuaries on the Oregon Coast
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Tonight in music: Tycho, Alela Diane, the Doubleclicks

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  • For the past few Thursdays, Ecotrust has been celebrating summer with their Sundown events, which offer free live music
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Tillamook County’s Sand Lake site of new 357-acre state park natural area

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  • Oregon will add a significant piece of Tillamook County to its state park system when 357 acres, including one mile of Pacific Ocean shoreline, comes into public ownership next week
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Tillamook County’s Sand Lake becomes state natural area

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  • The 900-acre Sand Lake is a gorgeous, mysterious, wild-salmon laden and relatively undeveloped natural area
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Water at Sundown

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  • A Portland environmental organization is helping restore crucial watersheds by investing in projects that have the greatest chance of success
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Tonight at Ecotrust’s free Sundown concert: the Builders and the Butchers

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  • The third installation in Ecotrust’s free Sundown Concert Series takes place this evening in the courtyard of the organization’s Pearl District headquarters
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Preschoolers taste summer

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  • Whether fresh berries or snappy green beans, children at Oregon preschools are tasting more local food bounty this summer than ever before
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A good leap forward

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  • Can local be global?
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Spencer Beebe on the moment in history he wishes he’d witnessed

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  • The Ecotrust founder was the recipient of the National Audubon Society’s Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership.
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An estuary preserved: 6 things to know about Oregon’s next park

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  • The deal helps the state meet its goal of securing sites that offer a unique glimpse into Oregon’s environmental culture
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‘Pristine’ Oregon property sale could lead to the coast’s next state park

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  • The 357 acres, at the county’s south end, is billed as “an unparalleled stretch of coastal open space.”
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Oregon Parks and Recreation moves to purchase new coastal parklands in Tillamook County

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  • Classified as a relatively pristine estuary, Sand Lake is the only remaining estuary of its size on the Oregon coast that is dominated by a diverse set of native plant associations, due to very little agricultural or commercial development.