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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
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Sitka’s Community Supported Fisheries shortens the distance between local fishermen and local plates

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  • Wild Alaska seafood often travels great distances with a few layovers before arriving at the dinner table of seafood lover
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School meals

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  • Agenda’s first course should be quality and access
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Murdock Trust awards more than $7M

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  • M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust in its latest grant distribution has awarded 37 grants totaling more than $7 million to nonprofits
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FoodHub is fast becoming the “Facebook of local food”

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  • FoodHub pairs food service professionals who want to buy local food with growers and processors wanting to sell it
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Community forest more about protecting than cutting

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  • Mayor, Beresford clarify misinformation about logging plans around Whistler
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Food factory

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  • Portland’s schools are cooking up plans for healthier lunches
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Oregon fisheries eye community model

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  • What started with the organic food movement has quickly morphed into a deep consumer analysis of what we eat, and why
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Are we there yet? Track salmon recovery online

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  • Website launched by Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and Ecotrust is supposed to make it easier for the public to track salmon recovery efforts online
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Does Healthcare Cash Grow on Trees?

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  • More than a third of US forests are family-owned, and most of those owners want to pass their land on to the next generation
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Oregon nets $1.76 million from USDA

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  • Oregon’s specialty crops industry received a healthy dose of financial fertilizer on Friday from the United States Department of Agriculture