Spencer Beebe

Spencer Beebe
Beebe
Alma materYale School of the Environment
OccupationsConservationist, social entrepreneur, author
Known forCo-founding Conservation International; founding Ecotrust

Spencer Beebe is an American conservationist, social entrepreneur, and author. He worked for The Nature Conservancy before co-founding Conservation International in 1987, and founded Ecotrust in 1991.[1][2][3] He wrote Cache: Creating Natural Economies (2010).[4]

Education and early career

Beebe is a fourth-generation Oregonian and earned a Master of Forest Science degree from Yale's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (now the Yale School of the Environment).[1] In the early 1980s he helped develop The Nature Conservancy's international program.[1]

Conservation International

Beebe co-founded Conservation International with Peter Seligmann in 1987 to pursue global biodiversity conservation through what the founders described as more innovative approaches.[1] One of the organization's first actions was the 1987 Bolivia debt-for-nature swap, which involved purchasing foreign debt from Bolivia in exchange for the creation of a multi-million-acre nature reserve.[1]

Ecotrust

Beebe founded Ecotrust in 1991 and served as its founding chairman and president.[1][2][3] The nonprofit is based in Portland, Oregon and works in the U.S. Pacific Northwest on projects linking conservation goals with local and regional economic development, including partnerships with Indigenous communities.[1][2][3] Ecotrust's work has included initiatives such as a regional "Salmon Nation" and a "conservation economy".[3]

Approach and writing

In a 1997 profile, Beebe emphasized resilience and conservation approaches that work with natural processes.[2] His book Cache: Creating Natural Economies draws on his career in conservation and development.[1][4]

Recognition

In 2014, he was selected to receive the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Distinguished Alumni Award.[1] In 2015, he received the National Audubon Society's Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership.[5]

Selected works

  • Cache: Creating Natural Economies (2010)[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Reuben, Aaron (10 October 2014). "Eco Rover: It's Hard to Pin Down Spencer Beebe". Yale School of the Environment. Yale University.
  2. ^ a b c d Manning, Richard (17 March 1997). "An optimistic man". High Country News.
  3. ^ a b c d Johnson, Jean Kirsten (3 November 2004). "Ecotrust: Seeing eye to eye". Indian Country Today.
  4. ^ a b c Beebe, Spencer B. (2010). Cache: Creating Natural Economies. Ecotrust. ISBN 9780967636450.
  5. ^ "Audubon Gala 2015". Audubon. National Audubon Society. 9 October 2015.

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