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Leaving this place better than we found it

Every year we take a look back and ask, "How did we do?" Read our 2014 annual report.

Spencer B. Beebe
June 24, 2015 24 June 2015

Publication, Salmon Nation

Celebrating Earth Day in Salmon Nation

Celebrating Earth Day from one of the most biologically rich bioregions on the planet.

Carolyn Holland
April 22, 2015 16 February 2016

Spencer Beeb stands behind a lectern and gestures broadly to a large audience

Honoring a lifetime of achievement

Our founder is honored with a lifetime achievement award at the National Audubon Society gala.

Carolyn Holland
April 21, 2015 22 April 2015

360 panorama of farm and mountains

The economics of climate change

Shifting away from an emphasis on global economic growth toward local economies

guest
February 23, 2015 25 February 2015

Small circular image of park and people.

Who are we in the Anthropocene?

The raging debate on our influence over the planet comes to the Natural Capital Center.

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September 17, 2014 20 July 2015

Gardener Suzanne Stone at New Day School in Portland hands a preschooler a pale for harvesting raspberries from the preschool garden.

New funding for farm to preschool programs in Oregon

Ecotrust gives out 13 mini-grants to boost the farm to preschool movement.

Lola Milholland
August 7, 2014 01 October 2014

Child waiting for lunch in school with a hand over his mouth.

On International School Meals Day, the view from Scotland

We know that food is such an important part of children’s lives, providing nourishment for bodies as well as minds — it is well proven that children learn better when they have had a good meal and are not troubled …

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March 6, 2014 01 October 2014

Colorful canoes rest on the waterfront at Ivochote.

Traveling the network of indigenous knowledge

By Jon Waterhouse As many of you know, I recently journeyed to a remote region of the Peruvian Amazon near the foothills of the Andes along with my wife, partner, and photographer Mary Marshall. The purpose of this trip was …

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January 27, 2014 01 October 2014

Students on first-ever Intertribal Energy Tour swing into Sundown

Launched by Redbridge, Inc., a Native American-owned, Portland-based marketing services company, the seven-day tour’s mission is to educate regional tribal youth on renewable energy, tribal utilities, smart grids, carbon offsets and energy-efficiency, energy careers, and to generate awareness of existing …

Emma Deans
July 30, 2013 01 October 2014