Ecotrust has announced the lineup for their summer event series, Sundown, which is a sort of street-fair/concert to celebrate and raise awareness for green living.
On a very sunny First Thursday in June Ecotrust and Edible Portland invited Portlanders to meet the makers and shakers behind our city’s world-class food scene.
Northern California’s salmon season is in full swing and on San Francisco’s Pier 45, a two-year-old fishermen’s cooperative, the San Francisco Community Fishing Association, is upending a fishing industry dominated by 800-pound gorillas and consolidation.
With the help of a $250,000 grant from the Ocean Protection Council and support from environmental nonprofit Ecotrust, SFCFA also has been able to lease a warehouse on Pier 45 to store its catch, as well as invest in a hoist, freezers and fork trucks.
The third annual Oregon Berry Festival returns to the Ecotrust Building in the Pearl District this weekend, featuring pies, cobblers and jams, as well as children’s activities and live entertainment.
Ecotrust’s fourth annual Sundown at Ecotrust concert series begins this evening with Onuinu — disco-pop, disco-hop, electronic-groove — at Ecotrust’s Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center.
An article in the latest issue of Edible Portland tells the story of Minto Island Growers, a farm outside of Salem that started Oregon’s first tea plot in 1989.
Oregon had major cause to celebrate this past July, when after years of advocacy and education on the part of school districts, food producers, and community partners, state lawmakers voted unanimously to allocate over $1 million in funding to farm to school and school garden programs.
Most investment funds that own woodlands make their money when the trees are cut down and carted off. Ecotrust Forest Management, based in Portland, Ore., also profits from the natural habitat left untouched in the forest.
Ecotrust revealed this morning it will spin out its marine consulting group into a company called Point 97. The entity will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Ecotrust.