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Disappearing foods: encouraging a comeback

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  • “Renewing America’s Food Traditions” by Gary Paul Nabhan, profiles 93 foods once common in American kitchens but now in danger of disappearing
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An unlikely way to save a species: serve it for dinner

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  • Gary Paul Nabhan and his book “Renewing America’s Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent’s Most Endangered Foods”
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Oregon’s locally grown faces financial challenges

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  • Transit costs force Northwest growers to pursue shipping efficiencies
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Ecotrust looks to economics to save environment

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  • Rob Manning reports on one organization’s attempts to rescue salmon, by going beyond traditional battle lines
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Spencer Beebe

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  • Ecotrust founder has a plan to save the environment—and our economy
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State using new tech device to manage fisheries

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  • Ecotrust staffers examine GIS fishing maps of the northern California coast
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Ecotrust software charts best coastal fishing grounds

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  • The Mellon Foundation has awarded Ecotrust $50,000 in recognition of its mapping software designed to chart the best coastal fishing grounds
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Anglers’ aid urged in sea-life effort

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  • Goal is expansion of marine reserves
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150 books for Oregon’s Sesquicentennial

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  • Including Salmon Nation
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AAAS: Climate-friendly fish

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  • Many intangibles determine how big — or small — the carbon footprint is of that fish you’re thinking about eating
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Thomas Friedman coming to Portland State; tickets free but going fast

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  • New York Times columnist and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman will give a public lecture at noon March 9 at Portland State University
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Slow food moves faster on social activism

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  • The movement once slighted as elitist now allies itself with such groups as farmworkers
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Tom and Fareed do Portland

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  • After the lecture, Friedman adjourned to a Q&A session hosted by Ecotrust and featuring some 120 VIPs
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Friedman, DC leaders hearing Oregon’s ‘green’ pitch

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  • Oregon leaders are pressing hard to get attention for their sustainability efforts
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Spend a few minutes with this film on growing a new economy

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  • Some young professionals have used their free time and skills along with Ecotrust to produce this open source film about building local living economies
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The broccoli pulpit

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  • A kitchen garden at the White House may inspire some to venture beyond corn and iceberg lettuce
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Oregon woodland owners consider selling carbon credits

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  • Peter Hayes is among Oregon forest owners considering selling carbon credits to generate extra revenue from their land
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School lunch crunch

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  • Local foodies push Salem for lunch money
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MLPA economic study to be shown

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  • Economic study reiterates the huge gap between fishing and environmental groups over marine protected areas and the wide range of potential economic impacts
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Yuroks seek $20 million state loan for land

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  • The Yurok Tribe has applied for a $20 million no-interest loan from the state that could secure the first part of a two-stage land deal