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Two children walking towards a lettuce patch.

New Farm to School grants put local foods in Oregon students’ lunches

The Oregon Department of Education has announced that eleven school districts are the recipients of competitive Farm to School and School Garden grants totaling $189,140. The majority of the funds (87.5%) will be spent on purchasing Oregon food products, with …

Lola Milholland
January 25, 2013 17 March 2015

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

Rows of lettuce in a community garden

Future We Want: Your Turn

In the run-up to the Rio+20 Earth Summit in June, we asked for transformative ideas that will help us build a Future We Want (as the UN puts it). The wider Ecotrust community responded with some though-provokers, which have us …

Oakley Brooks
May 15, 2012 01 October 2014