Ecotrust

Ecotrust's advisors have included urbanist Jane Jacobs, ecological economist and steady-state theorist Herman Daly, forestry scientist Jerry Franklin, and counterculture icon Stewart Brand.

The organization supported the Haisla in launching a Rediscovery Program for cultural education and, four years later, in securing provincial government recognition for over 750,000 acres (3,000 km2) of temperate rain forest as Huchsduwachsdu Nuyem Jees (the Kitlope Heritage Conservancy Protected Area).

The organization redeveloped a Portland warehouse into the Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center, the first historic restoration in the country to earn a Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design (LEED) gold award,[12] and launched what has become one of the nation's leading programs for sustainable food and farming.

[13] Recent extensions of Ecotrust's work include: honoring native leaders through the Buffett Award for Indigenous Leadership;[14] promoting regional economies through a series of cartoon-filled newspaper inserts in the Portland and San Francisco dailies and weeklies;[15] creating decision support tools for ecosystem-based management;[16] launching Ecotrust Forests LLC, a private equity fund to manage forestland for long-term regional health, as well as financial returns;[17] and bolstering bioregional identity through the idea of Salmon Nation.

[19] Ecotrust has established an unusual affiliation of for- and nonprofit entities that work at the intersection of natural, social and economic capital.