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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
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Ecotrust partners with donatables to bring social giving to Facebook

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  • Donatables is excited to announce its most recent partnership with Ecotrust
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Farm-to-school program shows off benefits

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  • Farm-to-school and garden programs surpass lawmaker’s expectations
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Social Venture Society raising VC fund, hosting conference

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  • Some 200 entrepreneurial types will gather in Portland for Hacking Social Impact, an event put on by the newly formed Social Venture Society, which is in the midst of raising a venture capital fund to back startups that have social benefit goals.
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Ecotrust to honor indigenous leaders tonight at Portland Art Museum

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  • Ecotrust celebrates distinguished Native national and international leaders working to improve social, economic and environmental condition of their people at the Portland Art Museum tonight.
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Ecotrust founder Spencer Beebe moving to board chairman, handing over president’s role

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  • Spencer B. Beebe, Ecotrust’s founder and long-time president, has stepped down as president but will become chairman of the organization’s board.
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Spencer Beebe hands over the reins at Ecotrust

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  • Ecotrust announced Thursday that Spencer Beebe, the organization’s founder and president, would assume the role of board chairman.
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Best of 2012: top voices blog posts from the year

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  • This year, some of our top news stories of the year led to our most-read Voices blogs, along with some new ideas.
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Beebe not going far as Ecotrust plans further growth

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  • Spencer Beebe is leaving the job he invented two decades ago, but the father of Portland’s Ecotrust wants everyone to know he’s not going far.
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Beebe will remain involved at Ecotrust

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  • Spencer Beebe is leaving the job he invented two decades ago, but the father of Portland’s Ecotrust wants everyone to know he’s not going far.
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Ecotrust: conservation through community economic development

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  • Ecotrust helped Alaska fishermen accomplish a drop in bycatch by partnering with them to create the Alaska Sustainable Fisheries Trust.
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Sharecroppers of the sea

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  • As Alaska’s deadliest catches become more regulated, “slipper skippers” exploit those who actually fish.
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Program to put Alaska-grown food into local schools sees success in 2012

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  • Two years ago, Alaska’s Farm to School Program was just getting started. In 2012, the program reached more than 20,000 students.
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A delicious blind date

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  • Ecotrust is bringing back their popular Blind Tasting Bingo events, featuring Portland’s top women chefs and a chance to put your senses to the test.
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Stiglitz and the WEF: Making the Connection between Climate Change and Economics

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  • The World Economic Forum kicks off in Davos this week.