Podcasts about Ecotrust

In this episode, I'm talking with Bettina von Hagen, Managing Director & CEO of EFM Investments & Advisory. Since founding Ecotrust Forest Management 20 years ago, she's been redefining forestry investment – consistently beating traditional market-rate returns while protecting ecosystems, communities, and future generations.Bettina grew up in politically turbulent Lima, Peru, with a scholar father, an artist-entrepreneur mother, and a childhood shaped by earthquakes, curfews, and curiosity. Her love of systems thinking began with a trip to the Galápagos Islands at age 14 and eventually led her to study evolutionary biology before pivoting to business.After earning her MBA at the University of Chicago, Bettina entered the world of commercial banking in the Pacific Northwest – right in the middle of the timber wars. But instead of picking a side, she asked a different question: How do we meet essential needs – like timber – without compromising ecosystems or future generations?That question led her to Ecotrust, a nonprofit focused on conservation-based development. There, she helped launch Craft3, a triple-bottom-line lender, and Beneficial State Bank. But the real spark came in 2004, when she co-founded EFM within Ecotrust to pioneer sustainable forest investing.By 2008, she bought a stake in the company and stepped in as CEO.EFM now manages 200,000 acres and nearly $500M in assets, with a staff of just 11 people and a vast network of contractors. Their model isn't just about timber. It's about carbon credits, conservation easements, water protection, salmon runs, tribal partnerships, and restoring degraded ecosystems.Bettina's forestry strategy is built on what she calls the Five R's:Rotation: Letting trees grow longer for higher-value wood.Retention: Leaving 10–30% of trees to support soil, seedbanks, and habitat.Reserves: Protecting special ecological areas, like salmon-bearing streams.Restoration: Rebuilding habitat, especially in fire-prone and aquatic systems.Relationships: Partnering with tribes, local communities, and land trusts.EFM's forests generate revenue through multiple streams. When timber prices dip, they don't rush to harvest – instead, they “store value on the stump.” Trees continue to grow, becoming more valuable over time. Carbon markets make this kind of patience financially viable.By deferring cuts, selling carbon offsets, or securing conservation easements, EFM creates liquidity without compromising ecological integrity.The results speak for themselves. Every fund exit has outperformed the NCREIF Timberland benchmark, and every acre under EFM's care becomes more ecologically and socially valuable over time.Forests don't have to be sacrificed for growth. In Bettina's hands, they are growth.Tune in to hear how she's building a forestry model that works – for investors, ecosystems, and future generations.—About the SRI 360° Podcast: The SRI 360° Podcast is focused exclusively on sustainable & responsible investing.—Connect with SRI360°:Sign up for the free weekly email updateVisit the SRI360° PODCASTVisit the SRI360° WEBSITEFollow SRI360° on XFollow SRI360° on FACEBOOK—Additional Resources:- Bettina LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bettina-von-hagen/- EFM LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/efminvest/- EFM Website: https://efmi.com/

Send us a textIn this illuminating episode of Roots to Renewal, host Martin Ping engages with Spencer Beebe, a pioneering conservation leader who founded influential organizations including Salmon Nation, Conservation International and EcoTrust.Spencer shares his remarkable journey and the development of his visionary concept "Salmon Nation," which reimagines conservation through the lens of bioregional identity and community empowerment. Throughout the conversation, Spencer illustrates how grassroots leadership is transforming environmental stewardship across the Pacific Northwest and beyond.The discussion explores Spencer's philosophy that true ecological health is inseparable from community wellbeing, emphasizing the importance of empowering local "raven" leaders who understand their regions intimately. His approach focuses on restoring our fundamental connection to place as a critical pathway forward in addressing environmental challenges.Listeners interested in learning more about Spencer Beebe's transformative work can visit ecotrust.org and salmonnation.net.About Spencer Beebe:Spencer B. Beebe, Ecotrust Founder and Board Chairman, earned his MFS (Forest Science) degree in 1974 from Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a B.A. in Economics from Williams College in 1968. He served with the Peace Corps in Honduras from 1968-71 and, after serving 14 years with The Nature Conservancy as Northwest representative, Western Regional Director, Vice President and President of the Nature Conservancy's International Program, he was the founding President of Conservation International in 1987. In February 1991, Spencer founded Ecotrust; with Shorebank Corporation of Chicago he helped found ShoreBank Pacific, the first environmental bank, now OnePacific Coast Bank. In addition to his work with Ecotrust, Spencer serves on the board of Walsh Construction Company and the Ecotrust Board of Directors. He is the author of Cache: Creating Natural Economies. Thanks for listening to Hawthorne Valley's Roots to Renewal podcast. We are an association comprised of a variety of interconnected initiatives that work collectively to meet our mission. You can learn more about our work by visiting our website at hawthornevalley.org. Hawthorne Valley is a registered 501c3 nonprofit organization, and we rely on the generosity of people like you to make our work a reality. Please consider making a donation to support us today. If you'd like to help us in other ways, please help us spread the word about this podcast by sharing it with your friends, and leaving us a rating and review.If you'd like to follow the goings-on at the farm and our initiatives, follow us on Instagram!

Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The energy team of Ecotrust Canada will be visiting Quadra and Cortes Islands next week. They are part of a registered charity which works primarily works in rural and remote areas and helps guide people through the process of doing energy retrofits, installing heat pumps, new windows and solar panels. They will be giving free workshops at 2:00 and 6:30 in the Quadra Community Centre on Monday, February 17 and at the same times in Mansons Hall on Tuesday, February 18, 2025.  “The upcoming workshops are to introduce residents to our Home Energy Savings Program. We're offering a one on one support service, often called a concierge service. So once you register for our program, you'll get an email from me asking very basic information about your home, like the age of your home, the heating system you have etc. After that, you will receive a phone call from me and we'll go through more questions about your home. You explain what your desires are, what challenges you're experiencing around your energy bill, and then I can help guide you toward the right rebates and the right renovations, or retrofits, so that you can achieve that goal,” explained Michael Anthony Lutfy, the program manager for our area. “We support households from the beginning of the process all the way to the very end when it comes to selecting contractors, following through with the rebates, ensuring that they received what was expected from the contractor and we do financial planning, reminders, everything and anything a household needs to complete the process.”

The new year is good time to look forward to the promises and concerns that lie ahead. In addition to setting individual and professional goals for the year, many people are watching the possibility for sweeping political changes. Merriam-Webster made "polarization" their word of 2024, and it goes beyond political division to an increasing number of family estrangements. We'll get ideas on staying positive and on track for what's important in 2025. GUESTS D.J. Eagle Bear Vanas (Odawa), motivational storyteller, host of the PBS special “Discovering your Warrior Spirit”, and author of Warrior Within published by Penguin Random House Ronda Rutledge (Cherokee), executive director of Ecotrust Arnold Thomas (Shoshone-Paiute), vice chairman of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation

The Portland Fermentation Festival – also known as “Stinkfest” – is a celebration of all things fermented, from kimchi and kombucha to pickles and miso. Started in 2009, the festival returned last year after taking a three-year hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic. Once attendees pay admission, all of the featured fermented products are free to sample, trade and take home. We’ll talk with the three “Stinkfest Queens” who organize the festival — Liz Crain is an author who’s written several books about fermentation and the Portland food scene. Heidi Nestler is the CEO of Wanpaku Foods and a nutrition instructor at Quest Center for Integrative Health. Claudia Lucero is a cheesemaking book author and the CEO of Urban Cheesecraft. They join us in the studio to share more about the fascination with fermentation and what attendees can expect from this year’s festival. The 2024 Fermentation Festival will take place from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 10, at the Ecotrust building in downtown Portland.  

In this special bonus episode recorded at the 2024 Retrofit Canada Conference in Vancouver, BC co-host of the Passive House Podcast Mary James interviews Andrea Linsky of Alberta Ecotrust.https://albertaecotrust.com/Thank you for listening to the Passive House Podcast! To learn more about Passive House and to stay abreast of our latest programming, visit passivehouseaccelerator.com. And please join us at one of our Passive House Accelerator LIVE! zoom gatherings on Wednesdays.

Do trees have feelings? How do they talk? Which trees can you use to make syrup? Do bananas really grow on trees? Possibly the world's most enthusiastic tree expert, J. Casey Clapp, explains what makes coastal redwoods the coolest trees, how roots communicate with each other, and why a tree is like a cup of tea. Plus: bonus guest appearance by our friends (and the trees'), fungi.  Follow Casey Clapp on InstagramListen to his podcast, Completely Arbortrary: https://linktr.ee/arbortrarypod/A donation went to EcoTrust.orgFull-length (*not* G-rated) Dendrology episode + tons of science linksMore kid-friendly Smologies episodes!Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a monthOlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, masks, totes!Follow @Ologies on Twitter and InstagramFollow @AlieWard on Twitter and InstagramSound editing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions and Steven Ray MorrisMade possible by work from Noel Dilworth, Susan Hale, Kelly R. Dwyer, Emily White, & Erin TalbertSmologies theme song by Harold Malcolm

A policy analyst from Ecotrust discusses the future possibilities of heat pumps across the country.

LISA'S BIO Born and raised in Oregon, Lisa Mensah joined Oregon Community Foundation in September 2022, following an illustrious career that has taken her from working on rural poverty with the Ford Foundation to serving as an Under Secretary for Rural Development in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, managing a $215 billion loan portfolio, to most recently leading Opportunity Finance Network, the largest network of Treasury licensed Community Development Financial Institutions.  She serves on the Boards of Ecotrust, Feeding America, Fidelity Bank of Ghana, and Heritage and the Cultural Society of Africa (USA). She also serves as a member of the Advisory Committees of Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women and the Gaia Impact Fund.Lisa is widely considered an expert on access to capital in low-wealth communities and has frequently testified before Congress on the subject. The media and others look to her as a voice of authority on the CDFI industry, finance's role in social, economic, and racial justice, and the need for more equitable capital access across the country. Forbes recognized Ms. Mensah as one of five women who safeguarded America's small businesses throughout the pandemic. She holds an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University and B.A. from Harvard University.  “Bridging communities of wealth with communities of poverty, understanding of the coping economy” EPISODE OUTLINE (00:00) - Intro (00:38) - Bio (01:38) - The early days; Ghana, Oregon (02:19) - The power of purpose; bridging wealth and poverty (04:39) - Unsticking resources; power, inertia, and the "coping economy" (08:13) - Essential workers; lenses and x-rays into societal gaps (10:01) - Oregon Community Foundation; what it does with $3 billion (11:18) - Common ground v partisanship; some things transcend  (12:10) - Deserted island castaway; what's on the playlist on repeat (13:13) - Outro LISA RELATED LINKS Oregon Community Foundation Bringing Philanthropy Home Feeding America Fireside Chat: Lisa Mensah and NextDoor's Sarah Fryar This episode was edited by Phil Lepanto. GENERAL INFO| TOP OF THE GAME: Official website: https://topofthegame-thepod.com/ RSS Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/topofthegame-thepod/feed.xml Hosting service show website: https://topofthegame-thepod.podbean.com/ Javier's LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/javiersaade & Bio: https://tinyurl.com/36ufz6cs  SUPPORT & CONNECT: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/96934564 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551086203755 Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOPOFGAMEpod Subscribe on Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/site/podcatcher/index/blog/vLKLE1SKjf6G Email us: info@topofthegame-thepod.com    THANK YOU FOR LISTENING – AVAILABLE ON ALL MAJOR PLATFORMS

Nesse episódio, Luís Montanari conversa com Vinícius Durbano (CEO & Head of Technology, EcoIT e EcoTrust) sobre os maiores desafios e ameaças em Segurança da Informação hoje em dia. Confira tudo nesse episódio! Confira nossas redes sociais para ficar por dentro de todas as novidades! Site: https://addee.com.br ​ Blog: http://mspblog.com.br/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/addee/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ADDEE.br Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/addee/ YouTube: youtube.com/@cortesmspcast Podcast: ⁠https://www.mspcast.com.br/⁠ #MSPCast #SouMSP #ADDEE #MSP #SouMSP #ServiçosGerenciados

In this episode Ruth interview Amber about how our body resonates with the Earth and how Earth resonates with our body. Who is Amber Peoples? Amber Peoples is an Earth Relationship Coach and Copywriter who creates experiences and messages to nurture connections with the planet. She welcomes the artist and scientist inside everyone to design solutions for our beautiful yet messy relationship with the Earth. Amber exemplifies that the next amazing idea can come from anywhere, at any age. With an MA in Theater Production, she has created and experimented inside renovated buildings like Ecotrust, on theater stages with Science on Tap, out in the open air at Portland Farmers Market, and across 135 miles of coastline through Live Culture Coast. Next up? The docuseries Climate of AWE: Arts with Ecology. CONTACTS: WEBSITE: https://earthrelationship.com/ LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ambermpeoples/ https://quiz.earthrelationship.com/sf/435abc5b

Hub → RacismI also want to highlight that Portland has been a very we have a very racist, white dominant history as a city. And we're as a community working to dismantle that racism that's been institutionalized and internalized in most of us. And how can we do that? Utilizing The Redd facility and creating access for opportunity and shifting power to folks who have been marginalized out of the system. And what does that look like and how can we create a platform for it, with the infrastructure that we have and the gathering spaces. http://www.solvecast.com/articles/detail/19070-building-a-sustainable-and-just-food-system-with-emma-sharer-ecotrust-investments [more]Hub → Food productionAlso I think another huge layer to this community benefits the collaborative piece, right? So there's, sometimes a hundred businesses onsite at once doing, not in the COVID era, but pre COVID doing their business and whether it's producing or warehousing or whatnot. And then they're collaborating with each other. And I feel like in our very broken sort of commodity size food world, that doesn't exist. So finding that is really important. http://www.solvecast.com/articles/detail/19070-building-a-sustainable-and-just-food-system-with-emma-sharer-ecotrust-investments [more]Hub → Food distribution Hub → Food Industry Hub → FoodSo I think what is truly valuable from a food business perspective is you typically start with your warehouse somewhere, your kitchen, somewhere, your buyer, somewhere, and The Redd. Not that everything has to be in one spot, but is a really nice spawning ground. So to speak. Or a food business to start. And that's because you can make your product in one of the kitchens, you can store your product with beeline. One of our tenants who manages the warehouse and then have it delivered by beeline. And, or be connected to the local grocery market in town, new seasons, for example, which is a big partner of ours in The Redd ecosystem. http://www.solvecast.com/articles/detail/19070-building-a-sustainable-and-just-food-system-with-emma-sharer-ecotrust-investments [more]Food production → Sustainability Hub → FoodOur program team at Ecotrust on the food side, did this study to understand where the gaps were in getting locally sourced produced, raised meats, produce seafood into the hands of people and our community. And what came out of that study was cold storage, dry storage, kitchen, production, space ,events, community gathering spots. And that is what The Redd is now. http://www.solvecast.com/articles/detail/19070-building-a-sustainable-and-just-food-system-with-emma-sharer-ecotrust-investments [more]

A lot can happen in the space of drinking one Rainier beer on a commercial fishing boat. For Brendan Jones that kind of sparked the beginning of his pescatourism operation in Sitka, Alaska. Join Big Tourism host Arica Sears and her guests Jon Bonkoski of Ecotrust and Rachel and Brendan Jones of Finn Alley Fishing as they look at pescatourism from a research lens as well as from real experience in SE Alaska. After this episode you may be ready to try it out for yourself. Only on ASPN!

For more than two decades, Jeremy Barnicle MPA '04 has been working at the intersection of policy, philanthropy, and social change. At Mercy Corps, he helped guide the organization's global strategy, positioning the nonprofit as one of the most respected humanitarian organizations in the world. Today, he serves as executive director of Ecotrust, which works to advance social equity, economic opportunity, and environmental well-being for all. In this episode of #Changemakers, Jeremy reflects on how his time at Princeton SPIA — both as a student and later as a lecturer — shaped his approach to leadership. He also stresses the importance of showing up “ego free” in a job and putting in good, hard work with “great spirit,” while also demonstrating an ability to think big-picture. #Changemakers is a podcast series featuring the many Princeton SPIA alumni who built up their policy toolkits at Princeton and went on to change their communities. The show is produced, hosted, and edited by B. Rose Huber, communications manager and senior writer at SPIA.

For more than two decades, Jeremy Barnicle MPA ’04 has been working at the intersection of policy, philanthropy, and social change. At Mercy Corps, he helped guide the organization’s global strategy, positioning the nonprofit as one of the most respected humanitarian organizations in the world. Today, he serves as executive director of Ecotrust, which works to advance social equity, economic opportunity, and environmental well-being for all. In this episode of #Changemakers, Jeremy reflects on how his time at Princeton SPIA — both as a student and later as a lecturer — shaped his approach to leadership. He also stresses the importance of showing up “ego free” in a job and putting in good, hard work with “great spirit,” while also demonstrating an ability to think big-picture. #Changemakers is a podcast series featuring the many Princeton SPIA alumni who built up their policy toolkits at Princeton and went on to change their communities. The show is produced, hosted, and edited by B. Rose Huber, communications manager and senior writer at SPIA.

Part 1 of a very special duo: Do trees have feelings? How do they talk? How old can they get? Are there any tree stories that will make me cry? Spoiler: YES. This episode aired in May 2018 and is worth a revisit, especially since Part 2 is a brand new 2020 interview with possibly the world's most enthusiastic tree expert, J. Casey Clapp. Learn about his many tree tattoos, new additions to those tattoos, how roots communicate to each other, "crown shyness,” social media shyness and the mental health benefits of tree proximity. Also: banana facts and Casey f*cking hates apples.  Be sure to hear the fresh catch-up interview in Part 2 to learn what Casey’s been up to since this originally aired. He’s been busy.  Follow Casey Clapp at Instagram.com/Clapp4Trees and his new podcast Instagram.com/arbortrarypod Sponsor links: www.alieward.com/ologies-sponsors A donation went to EcoTrust.org Listen to his podcast, Completely Arbortrary: https://linktr.ee/arbortrarypod/ Casey's tattoo artist, Shawn Hebrank at Blood Root: https://www.instagram.com/bloodroottattoo Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes! Follow twitter.com/ologies or instagram.com/ologies Follow twitter.com/AlieWard or instagram.com/AlieWard Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris Theme song by Nick Thorburn   Support the show: http://Patreon.com/ologies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Part 2 of a very special duo! The fresh catch-up interview to learn what the world’s most charming and enthusiastic tree expert, Casey Clapp, has been up to since his 2018 episode aired. He’s been busy. Listen to hear if he’s gotten more pine cone tattoos, what other trees he hates, which ones he gives 10/10, musical blunders, winter pagan traditions, and why trees may play a huge role in his personality. Also: his new podcast for your ears and heart.  Follow Casey Clapp at Instagram.com/Clapp4Trees and his new podcast Instagram.com/arbortrarypod Sponsor links: www.alieward.com/ologies-sponsors A donation went to EcoTrust.org  Listen to Completely Arbortrary: https://linktr.ee/arbortrarypod/ Casey's tattoo artist, Shawn Hebrank at Blood Root: https://www.instagram.com/bloodroottattoo Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes! Follow twitter.com/ologies or instagram.com/ologies Follow twitter.com/AlieWard or instagram.com/AlieWard Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris Theme song by Nick Thorburn Support the show: http://Patreon.com/ologies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gun Denhart started Hanna Andersson with her husband in 1983 at the age of 38 in the garage of her home. If you are a parent or grandparent who has been to the Polar Express or some other event requiring matching pajamas, you're probably familiar with the brand. What started as an exclusively mail-order catalog retailer expanded to many brick-and-mortar stores all over the U.S. I was delighted to interview Gun, originally from Sweden, now focusing on many philanthropic causes. She is able to do this because of bootstrapping Hanna Andersson, then selling in 2001 for $175 million. Quite impressive! You will enjoy hearing about the “Hanna Downs” and also how she enjoys spending time with younger women, encouraging them to not give up and to keep enough cash in the business. She has a keen mind for business and a huge heart for giving.

Part CEO, part personal development wonk, and part biohacker info geek, and a self-confessed serial entrepreneur. In 1999 Thom founded Steviva Brands which is now is one of the largest importers, manufacturers and distributors of clean-label sweetening systems and natural sweeteners.   An accomplished businessman, television producer, filmmaker and author a member of and contributor to the Portland Boys & Girls Club a volunteer and mentor for the Mercy Corps MicroMentor program a contributor and participant in the Audubon Society of Portland, Ecotrust and the Wild Salmon Center.     Episode Summary:   In this episode of the Be Real Show, Travis is joined by Thom King, serial entrepreneur, founder of Steviva Brands and author or Guy Gone Keto. They discuss building a brand and surrounding yourself with great employees and creating a work place that gives your employees purpose. They discuss the future and evolution of his business.   Connect:   Website -  http://guygoneketo.com/about-guy-gone-keto/                      https://thomking.com/about-thom-king/                      https://thomking.com Twitter -     https://twitter.com/thomking Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thomkingpdx/ Facebook -  https://www.facebook.com/thomkingpdx LinkedIn -   https://www.linkedin.com/in/steviva/ YouTube -      Resources Mentioned:   Life Span by David Sinclair - https://www.amazon.com/Lifespan-Why-Age_and-Dont-Have/dp/1501191977/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1576468699&sr=1-1   Guy Gone Keto by Thom King - https://www.amazon.com/Guy-Gone-Keto-Achieve-Lifelong/dp/1544510985/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=guy+gone+keto&qid=1576468753&s=books&sr=1-3   The Microbiome - https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/microbiome/     People Mentioned   Jeff Bezos - https://twitter.com/jeffbezos   Elon Musk - https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor   Bono - https://twitter.com/U2

While she was an environmental reporter, contributing stories to OPB, Ashley Ahearn was based in Seattle. She also had a podcast called Terrestrial. A couple of years ago, she uprooted her life, moved east and became part of a small rural community in Washington’s Methow Valley. She’s continued to report on environmental issues, including climate change, contributing to the local newspaper and public radio outlets, as part of a year-long rural reporting fellowship funded by Ecotrust. That organization provide financial support to the Methow Valley News, but had no control over the selection or content of the stories covered.

Location: The Ecotrust Building, 721 NW 9th Ave. For information on parking, please visit Ecotrust's website. Our first Friday Forum of the 2019-2020 season will focus on the Oregon Student Success Act. We'll hear from education leaders from across the state about the specific provisions that they think will make a big difference for low income and underserved children in Oregon. Panel Parasa Chanramy Parasa is the Policy & Implementation Director at Stand for Children in Oregon. In her role, she manages the Oregon affiliate’s legislative work and collaborates with many different stakeholders to ensure that Measure 98 (AKA “High School Success”) and the Student Success Act are implemented well. She’s a proud Cambodian American and Oregonian with nearly a decade of experience in education policy in Oregon, Washington and Minnesota. Before working in education policy, she was a kindergarten teacher in north Minneapolis. Her students and their stories continue to motivate her and her commitment to education equity. Parasa joined the Stand family in late 2012. She holds a B.A. in International Affairs from Lewis & Clark College. Mark Witty has served in education for the past 34 years as a teacher, coach, guidance counselor, athletic director, principal and superintendent. He has a Master’s Degree in Education from Oregon State University and completed his Administrative Licensor through the University of Oregon. Mark is a recognized leader in Oregon serving as the President of the Secondary Schools Association in 2005-06 and is currently serving as the President-Elect for Oregon Association of School Executives. He is in his 5th year serving as the Superintendent of Baker School District which supports 1,700 brick and mortar students, 2,500 students statewide through Baker Web Academy and Baker Early College. Baker School District has also created Baker Technical Institute (BTI) which is a non-profit entity that provides technical training for k-12 students as well as adult learners throughout the Pacific Northwest. Mark has been nominated for Superintendent of the year in 2012, won the President’s Award from COSA in 2017 and serves on numerous state & local committees/boards. He has organized multiple regional Educational Summits in Eastern Oregon to create dialogue between educational organizations and our elected officials. Recently, he was nominated and accepted as an inaugural member of the Future’s Institute along with 49 other superintendents representing 25 states. This organization will act as a “Think Tank” to determine how education can best serve workforce development in a dynamic economic environment. Miriam Calderon is the Early Learning System Director overseeing the Early Learning Division in Oregon. Before coming to Oregon, Miriam served as the Senior Director of Early Learning at the Bainum Family Foundation, where she shaped a new $10 million dollar investment in a birth to three system for the District of Columbia. She also was a senior fellow with the BUILD Initiative, leading BUILD's work related to dual language learners, and serving as a faculty member for BUILD’s Equity Leaders Action Network. Previously, Calderon served as a political appointee in the Obama Administration, advising on early learning policy at the Domestic Policy Council at the White House and at the Department of Health and Human Services. She also served as the Director of Early Childhood Education at DC Public Schools, where she oversaw Head Start and pre-kindergarten programs, including helping to implement universal pre-kindergarten in DC. Calderon was also Associate Director of Education Policy at the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic civil rights organization. There she focused specifically on early education policy for Hispanic and dual language learner children. She began her career in early childhood working as a mental health consultant in Head Start programs in Portland, Oregon. She has published several reports on early childhood education. Calderon holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from the University of Delaware and a Master of Social Work degree from Portland State University.

“In this humorous paean to the joys of food, the main story is about trucker Goro, who rides into town like a modern Shane to help Tampopo set up the perfect noodle soup restaurant. Woven into this main story are a number of smaller stories about the importance of food, ranging from a gangster who mixes hot sex with food, to an old woman who terrorizes a shopkeeper by compulsively squeezing his wares.”  (Reid Gagle, IMDB) This week's guest:Lola Milholland is a creative food event planner and award-winning writer and multimedia producer. A Portland-native, she studied Japanese language and culture since kindergarten, first in the Portland Public Schools and later at Amherst College and Doshisha University. Before launching Umi, she worked at the nonprofit Ecotrust for eight years on regional food and farming issues and as assistant editor of Edible Portland magazine. This week’s links:Umi OrganicShizuku RestaurantMississippi RecordsPortland Mercado

Jeremy Barnicle is the executive director of Ecotrust, an Oregon-based nonprofit that fosters economic opportunity, social equity, and environmental well-being. He has spent more than two decades working at the junction of policy, media, philanthropy and global issues.  The post 199: What It’s Like to Lead a Regional Environmental+ Nonprofit w/ Jeremy Barnicle, Ecotrust [Main T4C episode] appeared first on Time4Coffee.

Farm infrastructures in the U.S. are designed to support either very big or very small farms, which sometimes leaves mid-sized producers—the “Ag of the Middle”—without resources or a market. Amanda Oborne of Ecotrust is supporting these often-overlooked farms in order to create a flourishing regional food system.

Jeremy Barnicle is the executive director of Ecotrust, an Oregon-based nonprofit that fosters economic opportunity, social equity, and environmental well-being. He has spent more than two decades working at the junction of policy, media, philanthropy and global issues.  Previously, Jeremy spent 11 years at the global humanitarian organization Mercy Corps, where he helped guide the organization’s global strategy and position the Portland-based nonprofit as one of the most respected humanitarian organizations in the world. Prior to Mercy Corps, Jeremy worked for the State Department, for a U.S. congressman, for several consulting firms, and as a Peace Corps volunteer. In this caffeinated episode, find out how Jeremy turned a B.A. in Public Policy and Spanish from Vanderbilt University into the driver’s seat at a leading NGO in the environmental field. The post 150: How to Break Into the Environmental+ Nonprofit World w/ Jeremy Barnicle, Ecotrust [Espresso Shots] appeared first on Time4Coffee.

Get excited to see 'Circles' by hearing the stories behind making the film from Director Cassidy Friedman and star Eric Butler on docupod. Cassidy & Eric talk about meeting through legendary activist Fania Davis, the importance of restorative justice, the similarities of their backgrounds, and Eric having to balance working with Oakland students using restorative justice while having his son arrested for a crime he didn't commit. Plus they talk about why Eric refused to do the film at first including what Cassidy had to do to change his mind and earn the trust of Eric and the students. The two also spoke about the title and how it built as filming went on especially after meeting Eric's mentor and learning about the archives of their incredible work. For more about the film: www.CirclesMovie.com & www. UnderstandingInConflict.com For more docupod: www.docupod.co Student circle at OUSD School Board Meeting: https://www.facebook.com/restorativejusticefilm/videos/399067277332557/ Cassidy on Instagram: Instagram.com/FriedmanCassidy The film on Facebook: Facebook.com/RestorativeJusticeFilm Tiffany on Twitter: Twitter.com/SpecialSays Tiffany on Instagram: Instagram.com/SpecialSays_ Screenings: -Sebastapol Documentary Film Festival- Saturday 3/30 @ 11:45am- Sebastapol Center for the Arts -Kelly Miller Middle School in Washington DC- 4/10 -Columbia Heights Education Campus in Washington DC- 4/11 -CA Film Institute in San Rafael, CA- 4/15 - University of Houston Downtown in Houston, TX- 4/25 -Julien Dubuque International Film Fest in Iowa- 4/25 & 4/28 -Ecotrust in Portland, OR- 5/30

Energy: A New Take on Wood and Water In this double-header, Simon Love interviews two companies implementing innovative sustainable energy technologies.  The episode touches on sustainable projects in urban versus rural environments,how to work with local government and communities, and where these technologies are headed. First up is Bill Kelly from Lucid Energy, a startup that is creating usable energy from gravity-fed water systems. Bill opens up about the realities of innovating in a tightly-regulated environment. Bill shares his tips for innovators in the clean tech space.   Then we hear from Andrew Haden and Meagan Nuss from Wisewood, a company bringing biomass heating systems to the Western USA. Andrew and Meagan discuss one project in particular, in rural Harney County, where a biomass boiler will use local juniper wood to heat community buildings. Not only is it a system using local renewable resources, but the energy system will eventually be owned by the community in the form of a co-op.   In this episode you’ll learn How Lucid Energy’s turbine system captures energy in water pipes that is normally wasted. How the new turbine replaces a wasteful system of valves Why it can be tough for a ‘no-brainer’ technology to make it to market How innovative projects proceed when there are many stakeholders involved Bill Kelly’s advice for innovators in clean tech How Lucid Energy is prepared for a future that involves both distributed energy in rural areas and grids in concentrated urban areas. The story behind Wisewood, and how it can be economical to ship wood pellets from BritishColumbia to Stockholm but not to use them locally. How biomass energy and forest restoration  are so closely tied together. How cheap hydroelectric power and natural gas prevent biomass projects from happening,despite the need for material to be removed from forests for forest health. How a small town in Oregon is replacing a diesel boiler with a district energy scheme using local juniper wood How something as simple as a wood-fueled boiler can actually be very empowering for rural communities. Links Lucid Energy   Wisewood     Guests Bill Kelly, Chief Operating Officer, Lucid Energy Bill Kelly is a veteran leader with a broad range of experience working with utilities, technology companies and investors in the water sector. He is the former President of Isle Utilities and was the firstU.S.-based employee. He was responsible for establishing the growing Isle Inc. Company presence inNorth America and facilitated and grew their Technology Approval Group (TAG), an innovation forum that brings new step change technologies to the municipal water and wastewater sector. Bill has also served as as a senior advisor at SkyH20 and Clean Power Capital. Bill earned a Bachelor of Arts inInformation and Communications Studies from California State University-Chico. Andrew Haden, Founder and President, Wisewood Andrew is the Founder of Wisewood, Inc. and has over 12 years of experience working in the biomass sector.  Andrew has led the development and implementation of multiple biomass energy projects through complete cycles of feasibility assessment, engineering, construction, commissioning and ongoing operations support. He leads the design component of all Wisewood energy projects. Prior to founding Wisewood, Andrew worked at Bear Mountain Forest Products and Ecotrust. Andrew is an expert on the regional biomass industry and has an MS in Rural Development from the SwedishUniversity of Agricultural Sciences and a BA in Sustainable Agriculture from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Meagan Nuss, Project Development Coordinator, Wisewood Meagan is Wise wood’s Project Development Coordinator. She works closely with community partners to move projects forward and respond to client needs, and also investigates biomass supply opportunities across Wisewood’s project areas. Meagan specializes in biomass energy and has a background in forest management, fire ecology, and forest collaborative groups. She is experienced as a volunteer mediator and facilitator, and brings these skills to her interactions with prospective biomass energy clients. Prior to coming to Wisewood, Meagan worked for Northwest Natural Resource Group, the Forest Guild, andGreenWood Resources. Meagan has an MS in Forest Ecosystems and Society from Oregon StateUniversity, and a BA in Environmental Studies from Lewis & Clark College.

2014 PNCA Commencement Spencer Beebe, Chair of Ecotrust’s Board of Directors, delivers the 2014 Commencement Address at the May 25 celebration for the graduating class of 2014, with students in PNCA’s undergraduate Studio Arts, Media Arts, and Design Arts programs and three of the graduate programs of PNCA’s Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies: MFA in Visual Studies, MFA in Collaborative Design, and MFA in Applied Craft and Design. Download

Today on the program, I speak with Robert Herzog, Founder and CEO of eCaring. eCaring is a system, with an iPad app as its centerpiece, which increases the efficiency and productivity of care managers responsible for patient homecare. His system is a great way to extend healthcare into the home, and collect actionable data from the home. Both are essential to control outcomes because it's where patients spend 95% of their time. A few things that Robert said which I found very interesting: eCaring customers are people who were "ripe for change?" Inertia is his biggest competitor. Robert credits some measure of his success to his relentless drive toward intuitive simplicity His plan to integrate eCaring data into a larger data pool is to work through HIEs (Health Information Exchanges) eCaring enables a great use of care extenders, who have the data to be able to talk to physicians if necessary. So it's a very efficient use of resources.   Robert Herzog CEO, eCaring Robert has an extensive background in digital media and creative enterprises as an entrepreneur and executive.  For several years he was deeply involved in the home and extended care of his mother Grace, which gave him an understanding of the problems eCaring is designed to solve. He has been a pioneer in applying new technologies to business ventures, working as a senior executive with startup companies such as Motionbox, Diva, ON2 Corp, Softcom, Granite Films and City Winery, major corporations including JPMorgan Chase, Cahners Communications and the Sarnoff Research Center, and not-for-profits including New Jersey Appleseed and Ecotrust.  In public service, he was the creator and Director of New York City's Energy Office, and also taught public school.  Robert is also an author and filmmaker.  He graduated from Williams College and has a Master's from the New School.   ecaring.comquestions@ecaring.com

Spencer Beebe, founder of Ecotrust, is giving the next Seminar About Long-term Thinking lecture, titled "Very Long-term Very Large-scale Biomimicry"---how to prosper with bio-regional economics over centuries. Friday, March 11, 7pm, Fort Mason Conference Center, San Francisco.