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Thursday, 3:30pm

More than just clean air and water, a healthy ecosystem provides a multitude of benefits that support communities and economies.  The cost of replacing these services can be astronomical.  Learn about efforts to use ecosystem services for community/regional planning, and about efforts to create markets and payment systems that compensate land-owners who manage for ecosystem function.

Speakers

• Kevin Halsey, Co-lead of Ecosystem Market Place Team, Parametrix
  Ecosystem services: assessing value and creating markets
  
• Chuck Willer, Coast Range Association
  Ecosystem services and forested landscapes
  

Moderator

Martin Goebel, President, Sustainable Northwest

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Kevin Halsey

Kevin Halsey is the co-lead for the Parametrix’ ecosystem marketplace team.  Kevin’s recent projects have focused on creating infrastructure and protocols to support an integrated ecosystem service market.  Kevin also works with clients to understand ecosystem services and ecosystem markets and how these concepts can provide opportunities for their project or program.  In addition to his responsibilities at Parametrix, Kevin is currently an adjunct professor at Lewis and Clark Northwestern School of Law, where he teaches a course on identifying and managing environmental risk in business transactions.

Chuck Willer

Chuck Willer is the Executive Director of the Coast Range Association. He is a co-author of a 2007 report titled An Ecological Economics Approach to Understanding Oregon's Coastal Economy. Chuck is a member of the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics, The American Sociological Association and the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB). Within the SCB, Chuck sits on the governing board of the Working Group for Ecological Economics and Sustainability Science. Chuck is involved in a major conservation planning project to integrate the land-sea conservation planning frameworks and sits on the governing board of the Conservation Planning Institute. He has seventeen years of experience in conservation work and has authored or co-authored numerous reports dealing with issues of sustainability for Oregon's Coast Range bioregion.

Martin Goebel

Martin Goebel is the founding President of Sustainable Northwest.  He has been responsible for initiating most of its community sustainability partnerships in Oregon, Idaho, Washington and California.  He spearheaded the early-stage design of Sustainable Northwest’s Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities Partnership and its sustainability finance initiatives and serves as the principal liaison with Sustainable Northwest’s board and donors.  Born and raised in Mexico in a tri-cultural environment, Martin received a Bachelor's Degree in Forestry at Oregon State University, and a Master's Degree at Texas A&M University in Natural Resources Conservation and Development. In his early career Martin worked for the National Park Service as a seasonal ranger at Crater Lake National Park.  He has also practiced community forestry with the forest service of Mexico.  His international conservation career began with The Nature Conservancy’s International Program as assistant director for science.  He later helped found and worked at Conservation International as its Mexico Program director, a position he also held subsequently at World Wildlife Fund.  As WWF’s Mexico Program director he founded the Mexico Nature Conservation Fund.  From 1996 through 2006 Martin served as a trustee of the Summit Foundation.  He has served on the Oregon Sustainability Board since its inception.  Currently Martin is a Trustee of the Compton Foundation, where he chairs its environment & sustainability and its nominating committees, and of the recently established American School Foundation - USA.  He also serves on the advisory councils of Oregon Solutions, San Diego Museum of Natural History Museum, and the Mexico Nature Conservation Fund (Mexico City).   Since 2006 Martin has served as an advisor to the Walton Family Foundation.  In all these organizations he endeavors to promote environmental and sustainable development values and practice, ecosystem-level conservation initiatives that build local capacity, foster responsible market and business practices, and foster healthy, long-term partnership between government agencies, non-profit organizations, research institutions, grassroots community groups, private enterprise, bi- and multi-lateral development agencies, and philanthropies.  Martin enjoys speaking publicly and frequently writes and publishes on the subjects of conservation and sustainable development in the Pacific Northwest and Latin America.  He is also an avid fly fisherman and enjoys sailing and travel.