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A quantum leap in green building

By Dennis Hayes Sometimes, incremental innovations can’t produce quantum change. You can tinker with carbon paper forever without producing a photocopier. The quill pen did not lead to a typewriter, and not a single typewriter company evolved to personal computers. …

guest
January 18, 2013 29 July 2016

Past Indigenous Leadership Awards honorees

A rich sense of honor: Learning from tribal leaders

In this world of broken economies, climates, and institutions, it’s an opportune time to ask: what if Native people were in charge?

Spencer B. Beebe
December 6, 2012 02 December 2019

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At PNCA: Gregory Dees, social entrepreneurship guru

Gregory Dees is widely recognized as the "father of social entrepreneurship."

Emma Deans
November 5, 2012 12 August 2016

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Ecodistricts Summit will work on smarter, more resilient cities

The Portland Sustainability Institute will host the 2012 Ecodistricts Summit October 23- 26, as part of the ongoing effort to build smarter, more resilient, and more livable urban districts across the world. Policymakers, planners, developers, business leaders, and financers from around …

Emma Deans
October 11, 2012 07 May 2020

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FoodHub infographic captures local food/tech landscape

The team behind FoodHub, Ecotrust’s online marketplace that helps local food buyers and sellers connect, has just released Local Food/Tech Landscape, an interactive guide to innovation at the intersection of local food and technology. As Amanda Oborne, FoodHub’s director put …

Oakley Brooks
September 26, 2012 01 October 2014

A canyon on the Elwha River.

In austere times, where best to invest restoration money?

Jocelyn Tutak
July 12, 2012 03 May 2016

Software for 21st-century decisions

How will we all thrive on a densely populated, rapidly changing planet? For over twenty years, Ecotrust has been tackling this question, through the creation of innovative mapping and software solutions that bridge different perspectives on land and ocean use. …

Tim Welch
July 10, 2012 01 October 2014

Streetcar in Portland.

Ecodistricts bring new life to North American cities

By Rob Bennett Last month, leaders from Austin, Bellingham, Boston, Charlotte, Cleveland, Guadalajara (Mexico), Mountain View, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Vancouver (B.C.) gathered at Ecotrust in Portland for the first-ever EcoDistricts Institute, a meeting to examine neighborhood-scale development projects in each of their cities. …

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June 19, 2012 07 May 2020

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Offering our innovations to the world

Today, on the eve of the Rio+20 Earth Summit, Ecotrust is joining the Global Partnership for Oceans, backed by the World Bank and joined by major seafood buyers like COSTCO, international aid bodies such as the U.S. Agency for International …

Astrid Scholz
June 16, 2012 10 March 2020