Salmon-Safe Partners with Wine Growers, Urban Landowners to Accelerate Salmon Recovery in Walla Walla Basin
New certifications include 25 vineyards representing 56% of vineyard acreage and the community college
May 2008
Salmon-Safe will announce today that it has certified 25 vineyard operations in partnership with VINEA: The Winegrowers Sustainable Trust and the Oregon wine industry's Low Input Viticulture & Enology (LIVE) program. The newly Salmon-Safe certified sites represent 925 acres or 56 percent of the Walla Walla watershed's total vineyard acreage. Salmon-Safe also announced the certification of Walla Walla Community College and the completion of comprehensive Salmon-Safe assessments at Whitman College and Walla Walla Parks & Recreation ... Download

Salmon-Safe Puget Sound starts with Parks, Campuses
New certifications mark expansion of eco-label from farms to city; landowners taking greater steps for salmon restoration
March 2008
Salmon-Safe and its Seattle-based outreach partner The Network for Business Innovation and Sustainability (NBIS) announced today that the Washington State Department of Ecology headquarters campus, Port of Seattle Parks, and the co-located campus of University of Washington Bothell and Cascadia Community College have become the first urban Washington sites to achieve Salmon-Safe certification. ... Download

Oregon Convention Center Earns Salmon-Safe Certification
Recognition from a top certifier helps validate the OCC's ongoing commitment to sustainability
August 2007
The Oregon Convention Center and Salmon-Safe announced today that the OCC has become the first convention center in the U.S. to earn Salmon-Safe certification. The designation was awarded for safeguards the facility deployed to protect water quality and Pacific salmon habitat, as well as commitments the organization has made to further reduce its environmental impact over time... Download

Northwoods Nursery Goes Green
Becomes Oregon's first nursery operation to earn Salmon-Safe certification
Sept 2006
Northwoods Nursery has become the first nursery operation to earn Salmon-Safe certification, a designation that means the company is proactively improving the environmental health of its 66-acre property near the Molalla River located 35 miles southeast of Portland. The 40-employee company also operates One Green World, a catalog and retail nursery operation.... Download

Toyota goes the extra mile for salmon
Becomes first industrial site to earn Salmon-Safe certification
July 2006
Continuing Toyota's global leadership in sustainability, Toyota Logistics Services Vehicle Distribution Center at the Port of Portland's Terminal 4 has become the first industrial site to earn Salmon-Safe certification... Download

Kettle Foods chips in for salmon
Becomes Oregon's second corporate headquarters to earn Salmon-Safe certification
May 2006
Continuing its leadership in sustainability, Kettle Foods' headquarters in Salem has become the second corporate campus to earn Salmon-Safe certification, a designation that means the company is proactively and significantly improving the environmental health of its seven-acre property that borders Mill Creek... Download

Salmon-Safe recognizes Nike, Inc. World Headquarters Campus with its first Corporate Campus Certification
Announcement expected to lead other corporate landowners to commit to rigorous conservation standards
Sept 2005
Nike, Inc.'s world headquarters today became the first corporate campus to earn Salmon Safe certification, a designation that means the company is significantly improving the environmental health of its 175-acre property. The announcement was made at the Oregon Natural Step meeting of environmentally-innovative businesses... Download

Paper or Plastic
Salmon-Safe, Ecotrust, and Livengood/Nowack Advertising present an exploration of packaging and the environment
May 2005
The deceptively simple supermarket choice echoed in the title symbolizes the dilemma of a society on a collision course with the planet's life-support systems. Join us at Ecotrust on Wednesday, May 18, 2005... Download

Salmon Leaping from Water Fountains and Up Playground Slides
New Salmon-Safe Public Service Ads Begin On Monday And Continue All Summer
July 2004
Scenes of salmon climbing a park slide or leaping from a playground water fountain are among the images that will greet Portland commuters starting Monday, July 19. The public service ads are part of a summer-long awareness campaign by Salmon-Safe that publicizes the city of Portland's new adoption of Salmon-Safe management standards for pesticide reduction, streamside conservation, irrigation efficiency, and other salmon-friendly practices in parks. The ads, on buses, billboard and newspapers, will reach a projected daily audience of more than 600,000 people... Download

New Salmon-Safe Guide to Oregon Wine
In time for the Holidays: Salmon-Safe offers pocket guide to Salmon-Safe wines
November/December 2003
Salmon-Safe, a leading Northwest eco-label, today released "How to Choose a Salmon-Safe Wine," a free pocket guide to ecologically sustainable Oregon wine. The guide, which easily fits inside a person's wallet, can be used when grocery shopping, gift giving or planning holiday parties. It features 22 Yamhill and Willamette Valley wineries... Download

Farming with the Wild
Salmon-Safe and Ecotrust present a new vision for agriculture. Writer & Activist Daniel Imhoff to Speak in Portland
July 2003
Industrial agriculture, with its seemingly insatiable appetite for land and water, is the leading threat to our nation's wild biodiversity. Fortunately, a new vision for a more environmentally beneficial and sustainable agriculture is emerging... Download

Going beyond organic
Salmon-Safe & Oregon Tilth roll out "Salmon-Safe Organic" label
November 2002
Salmon-Safe, one of the nation's leading regional eco-labels, has joined with Oregon Tilth, the leading West Coast organic certifier, to launch a high profile effort to integrate sustainable food production and wildlife preservation in the salmon watersheds of the Pacific Northwest. "We think it's a great complement to the new National Organic Program," said Pete Gonzalves, executive director of Oregon Tilth... Download

Salmon-Safe's newest supporters: Governor Kitzhaber, retail giant Fred Meyer
Governor Lauds Eco-Label's Expansion into 115 Fred Meyer Stores.
March 1998
In front of a colorful display of foods and beverages carrying the Salmon-Safe logo, Oregon's Governor today lauded a non-profit conservation group's effort to involve shoppers and farmers in the recovery of native salmon. "Salmon-Safe is the best example yet of the voluntary cooperative approach that is needed to prevent the extinction of wild salmon." said Gov. Kitzhaber... Download

Pacific Rivers Council launches "Salmon-Safe" campaign
First cooperative effort with NW farmers and retailers to protect wild salmon.
April 1997
Pacific Rivers Council, one of the nation's leading river conservation groups, today launched Salmon-Safe, a cooperative marketing effort with Northwest farms, vineyards and retailers to help revive the Pacific Northwest's depleted populations of wild salmon. Beginning today, the Salmon-Safe logo will appear on select Northwest foods and beverages, signifying that they were produced using farming practices that keep rivers clean enough for wild salmon to spawn and thrive... Download