Ecotrust - Stories of Home

A crowd of people mill around a warehouse decorated with party lights

An illuminating affair

Jeanne Kubal October 11, 2017

PHOTO ESSAY | Light Up the Redd will go down as a highlight in our journey toward a healthy and equitable food future.

A forested hillside ablaze with a devastating wildfire

Under water, on fire: Waking up to a new climate reality

Spencer B. Beebe September 8, 2017

STAFF VOICES | In the latest string of extreme natural disasters, we are all made living witnesses to a new geological epoch.

Taking a fresh look at frozen fish

Tyson Rasor July 26, 2017

ECOTRUST UPDATE | Ecotrust joined the OSU Food Innovation Center and Seafood Analytics to test consumer preference and quality of fresh v. frozen fish.

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Wanted: Jobs, infrastructure, equity

Jeremy Barnicle June 14, 2017

ECOTRUST UPDATE | Everyone wants greener cities and good jobs. But not everyone has access.

BIPOC Man in a pink shirt addresses an audience from a podium

Ricardo Salvador calls for food justice

Molly Simas June 14, 2017

PARTNER VOICES | Join us for an inspirational evening at Light Up the Redd on Thursday, October 5 with keynote speaker Ricardo Salvador

Centering frontline communities

Carolyn Holland May 20, 2017

ECOTRUST UPDATE | This year, we endorsed the People’s Climate Movement to support the power shift from dominant-culture to frontline community leadership.

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Remembering Ray Hollander

Adam Lane May 1, 2017

IN MEMORIAM | Ray’s legacy at Ecotrust found its roots in the deep caring that he felt for his coworkers.

An older white man speaks at a podium to a small crowd of seated adults

Don’t call it climate change

Molly Simas April 27, 2017

PARTNER VOICES | On Thursday, April 20, we welcomed best-selling author, environmentalist, entrepreneur, and climate advocate Paul Hawken to present Drawdown

An illustration of a city filled with greenery

Biomimicry and the Urban Greenprint Seedkit

guest April 26, 2017

PARTNER VOICES | Urban Greenprint contributes this piece on looking to biomimicry to inform building nature-forward urban environments

Person wearing a yellow safety vest and baseball cap operates construction machinery

Creating jobs and building equity in the urban forest

Jeremy Barnicle February 17, 2017

STAFF VOICES | A new report by Ecotrust and PolicyLink shows economic and social benefit of increasing equity in the growing green infrastructure industry.

Artist's rendering of a futuristic college building, surrounded by hedges, with two silhouettes walking toward it

Three things to watch as tall wood buildings rise in the Northwest

Brent Davies February 4, 2017

STAFF VOICES | A closer look at opportunities in the burgeoning Cross Laminated Timber market

A field of Brussel sprouts, with a person out of focus in the background. They are wearing a teal beanie, a brown hoodie, and gray pants and holding a stem of sprouts.

Forests and farms thriving together

Carolyn Holland November 22, 2016

ECOTRUST UPDATE | An all-lands management approach and deep commitment to collaboration guide business in the heart of the Olympic Peninsula

A river studded with mossy stones surrounded by green trees

10 things to know about the Elliott State Forest sale

Brent Davies November 16, 2016

STAFF VOICES | We believe the Elliott State Forest is an invaluable cultural and conservation resource that should be in public or tribal ownership

Aerial photo of an aqua color river flowing through a forested landscape

Culture trumps data: A new myth for our planet

Spencer B. Beebe November 10, 2016

STAFF VOICES | The story of our bioregion is real, immediate, and fundamentally hopeful.

A person stands at a wooden podium reading a poem into a microphone

Following cultural lifeways

guest September 29, 2016

PARTNER VOICES | Oregon Poet Laureate and former Ecotruster, Liz Woody, shared this poem at our 25th anniversary celebration – Roots at the Redd

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Honoring Dave Hatch

Carolyn Holland September 27, 2016

IN MEMORIAM | Remembering Dave Hatch, a longtime friend, partner, and advocate for Native communities

Two people walking down a dirt path in front of a farm house. One person is carrying a large five-gallon plastic bucket.

What’s new in Food and Farms

Jeremy Barnicle June 16, 2016

ECOTRUST UPDATE | FoodCorps moves into the Redd, we tell everyone that Farm to School Counts, and Stanford Social Innovation Review talks about our work

Portrait of a person wearing a red shawl and beaded necklace over a black tunic

Elizabeth Woody, Oregon’s Voice

guest April 6, 2016

PARTNER VOICES | Elizabeth Woody, formerly of Ecotrust, will focus her tenure as Oregon’s first Native American Poet Laureate on rural communities

Forging a future economy with equity at its heart

Noah Enelow November 10, 2015

PARTNER VOICES | Van Jones speaks at Portland State University on the essential connection between the environment, social justice, and the economy

A forested hillside framed by wispy clouds

Rebuilding home: A story map of Sek-Wet-Se Forest

Jocelyn Tutak June 23, 2015

ECOTRUST UPDATE | This spring, a plan years in the making came to fruition when Ecotrust Forest Management sold 3,200 acres of forestland to the Coquille Tribe

Two students converse in a school garden

A school district unites around food

Lola Milholland May 6, 2015

PROGRAM UPDATE | Welcome to the Salem-Keizer School District in Oregon, where 40,000 students are eating more healthy, local food and learning in school gardens

Billy Frank, Jr.: River revolutionary

Oakley Brooks August 30, 2012

PARTNER VOICES | “That’s who we are. We’re salmon people.”