youth Archives - Ecotrust

Two kids in a school cafeteria eating healthy school lunch

Better data, stronger impact

Ecotrust’s new metrics platform spawns tighter focus in farm to institution programming.

Amanda Oborne
June 5, 2018 14 September 2018

Centering frontline communities

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

Carolyn Holland
May 20, 2017 14 July 2017

students pair up to work on exercise

Solving by Design: Students rise to the challenge

Ecotrust and Construct partner for Design Week Portland in challenging local high school students to consider the future of livable cities.

Carolyn Holland
April 13, 2016 13 April 2016

Kids line up in front of a salad bar cart including black beans, carrots, and snow peas at Parrish Middle School in Salem, Oregon.

A better future for kids through healthy, local lunches now

Fixing school lunch can help fix our broken food system. When schools purchase more local food, kids are healthier now and in the future.

Carolyn Holland
November 12, 2015 19 November 2015

Chelsea Clinton stands at the podium and addresses an audience of 100 people in the Billy Frank, Jr. Conference Center

Chelsea Clinton encourages kids to consider the future of food

Chelsea Clinton visits Ecotrust to talk food and inspire kids to take action in a changing world.

Megan Foucht
November 10, 2015 10 November 2015

two students stand in a garden bagging a zucchini

Investing in the future of farm to school

Landmark legislation in Oregon gives schools $4.5 million to bring local food to the table

Stacey Sobell
August 4, 2015 04 August 2015

Ngyen inspects leaves of lacinato kale in preparation for the salad phase of the competition.

Cooking up the future

OCI, a longtime partner of Ecotrust, holds high school cooking competitions where students compete for tuition waivers.

Dory Athey
June 4, 2015 10 November 2015

Three elementary school kids at the Urban Ag Fest post with silly faces.

A school district unites around food

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

Lola Milholland
May 6, 2015 06 May 2015