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High time for tea

Oregon’s newly budding tea industry is showing signs of a hopeful future. With growing enterprises like Tao of Tea interested in localizing their supply chain the demand for tea production in Oregon could reach to new heights and bring pioneering …

Megan Foucht
September 4, 2013 01 October 2014

Empowered to Succeed: How tribes can unlock new capital to grow in Indian Country

By Dave Castillo “How is it that the United States can put a man on the moon but not a bank on an Indian Reservation?” A version of this question was asked by a tribal official in 1999 during the …

guest
August 29, 2013 01 October 2014

Ecotrust Forest Management named to “Best for Environment” list

Today, Ecotrust Forest Management was named “Best for the Environment” as one of the top performers among B Corporations worldwide. Sixty-three companies across 30 industries and 11 countries were recognized by the nonprofit B Lab, with the release of the …

Oakley Brooks
May 29, 2013 01 October 2014

Side of fishing boat named Helen

Diving out of the ivory tower, fisherman organizes on the docks

Fishermen are talking together more, working through issues, and coming up with resolutions.

Emma Deans
May 3, 2013 10 February 2020

A farmers' market in a small town in the Columbia River Gorge

Going local in the Gorge

While the Columbia Gorge is rich in orchards and wheat fields, local food makes up only 1% of the diet of residents in the five-county area straddling the Columbia River between Hood River, Oregon, and Goldendale, Washington. The majority of …

Laura Ford
June 29, 2012 01 October 2014

Spencer Beebe stands in a Northwest forest

Rio: Let’s unleash the power of people back home

Spencer B. Beebe reflects on the Rio Climate Summit.

Spencer B. Beebe
June 22, 2012 10 March 2020

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

FoodHub meet market buttons

FoodHub builds a bridge over the urban-rural divide

“We are out on the farm; we’re out in the country. It’s really helpful to have technology that connects us to the cities to be able to sell.” That’s how folks at Unger Farms explained the benefit of using FoodHub …

Carolyn Holland
June 13, 2012 01 October 2014

Growing Power's aquaponics operation in Milwaukie, one of two dozen groups and places featured Douglas Gayeton and "Lexicon of Sustainability."

At the Natural Capital Center: The new faces of food

Douglas Gayeton’s zeitgeisty, alluring photographic compositions of unconventional farmers from all over the country are hanging in the Natural Capital Center. But he has no idea. Or at least, he didn’t, until we contacted him last week to find out …

Oakley Brooks
May 22, 2012 01 October 2014

Author of Change Comes to Dinner, Katherine Gustafson

At the Natural Capital Center: Gustafson brings fresh, hopeful stories to dinner

Katherine Gustafson traveled around the United States seeking working examples of how to build a more sustainable, satisfying, and fair food system. She documented her many stops, the people she met, and the solutions she uncovered in her new book, …

Lola Milholland
May 15, 2012 01 October 2014