Feature Article Restoration: The solution to climate change, land degradation & food/water insecurity Current News GUEST ARTICLE: Mobilizing Impact Capital for River Restoration by Making Stormwater a Tradable CommodityThe new $11.1 million Hudson River Skywalk connects two of New York’s historic arts sites to help revitalize the tourism economyMichigan launches new statewide Main Street support program to stimulate small business-based downtown revitalizationKentucky seeks design-build team to renovate 100 bridges, as part of their 6-year safety program to restore over 1000 bridgesCanada adds $13.6 million for 24 coastal restoration projects to boost marine ecosystems and local fishing economies$10.4 million Long Island Shellfish Restoration Project reaches milestone, having restocked 800,000 native adult clamsThe head of Jamaica’s “Life After Bauxite” program lauds a bauxite mining company for aiding the agricultural reuse of mined landHow the Delaware State Housing Authority’s “Downtown Development District” program is helping to revitalize city centersThe National Main Street Center’s UrbanMain program supports the revitalization of a neighborhood on Chicago’s South SideIn the wake of historic flooding, New York State creates the “Lake Ontario Resiliency and Economic Development Initiative”Syracuse, New York is about to join the many cities that are revitalizing by removing (or burying) a badly-planned urban highwayAn aquarium in Utah launches a program to restore 22 million square feet of coral reef in the Pacific Ocean’s “Coral Triangle”Cleanup of contaminated sediments in the Anacostia River—Washington, DC’s “forgotten river”—gets a $25 million startAs flooding disasters accelerate, rural places far from the coasts demand increased resilience and climate restoration effortsThe world’s first land-based commercial coral farm has opened on Grand Bahama to advance resilient restoration of reefsIs there an app for boosting urban resilience by expanding green infrastructure? Insights from Portland, Oregon & Stanford UniversityAfter public engagement & scientific study, a vision emerges for the ecological & historic restoration of Philadelphia’s FDR ParkAfter a $5 million renovation and ecological restoration, the Lakeside Complex reopens on Buffalo, New York’s revitalized Outer HarborSeven environmentally-restorative river projects receive $11 million in California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin DeltaPutting your money where your community is: How investment crowdfunding can help revitalize communitiesEPA has awarded 151 grants totaling $64,623,553 million to assess and clean brownfields for community revitalizationAfter Hurricane Irma’s devastation, Ragged Island will now get a resilient, solar-powered reconstruction in the BahamasIn West Virginia, mined and removed mountaintops are being repurposed and renewed to revitalize the economyIs China’s “red-line” approach to biodiversity a model for large-scale conservation and ecological restoration?Ryerson University launches a major revitalization initiative for its downtown campus in Toronto, Ontario, CanadaDoes your state need a “Certified Vacant Storefront District” revitalization program like this one in Massachusetts?Eleven brownfield redevelopment mega-projects are promising to revitalize Chicago’s present and future$100 million to renovate 100 miles of Detroit roads & bridges with mostly local workers. Seven commercial corridors to be revitalizedOhio State University is revitalizing its campus with renovated buildings in a new $161.6 million Arts DistrictRepurposing, renewing and reconnecting old Air Force Base in San Antonio boosts value of nearby real estate from $36.8M to $617MYoung architect wins a Master’s scholarship & paid internship for proposal to repurpose old Copenhagen rail depot into public parkIn Cambridge, Ontario, Canada’s 1st bookless library opens in a repurposed historic post office to help revitalize the riverfrontWorld Bank economist explores a question for lesser-developed countries: “Is inclusive economic growth an oxymoron?”Tour of a successful mined land reclamation project discusses the revitalizing role of the $4.5 billion Restore Pennsylvania programThe 8-year, $100 million renovation of Roberto Clemente State Park revitalizes the Bronx waterfront to better serve youthAfter spruce beetle epidemic, a landscape-scale restoration project is coming to Utah’s Manti-La Sal National Forest