Feature Article Restoration ecology must embrace business, sociology, anthropology, law, diplomacy, design and linguistics for maximum efficacy Current News GUEST ARTICLE: 11 ways to rejuvenate your small business environment, as a strategy for revitalizing your downtownWhy community-owned grocery stores—such as co-ops—might be the best strategy for revitalizing urban food desertsThe Thousand Hills Lifetime Grazed company adopts regenerative agriculture to restore grasslands, topsoil, watersheds and climateResearchers at Wake Forest University discover that biochar helps rain forest restoration efforts get off to a better startAppalachian Hope: Coal isn’t going to bounce back in West Virginia, but tourism and recreation can replace itSanta Monica, California wins international award for sustainable infrastructure for restoring water quality at famous beach$13.4 million in Community Development Block Grants awarded to 14 revitalizing projects in counties and communities across VirginiaUniversity of Puerto Rico and University of the Virgin Islands partner to improve resilience and disaster recovery initiativesNew research from China reveals that we shouldn’t be too quick to dismiss regenerated forests as “green deserts”The Five Star & Urban Waters Restoration Program awards $1.7 million to 46 projects, and grantees add another $4.4 millionADAPT NOW: A global call for leadership on climate resilience from the Global Commission on AdaptationFor developing nations damaged by the climate crisis, the “Aid for Trade” program can offer hope for a more resilient futureImpressive Success! NOAA recruits partners and volunteers to help restore Puerto Rico’s coral reefs, nature reserves and trailsU.S. EPA accelerates $2.4 million in NFWF Small Watershed Grants to Pennsylvania for Chesapeake Bay restorationEurope boosts restoration economy via new policy and planning guidelines on ecosystem services and blue/green infrastructureUNESCO announces that the “Revive the Spirit of Mosul” initiative will launch in 2020 to restore heritage, health and educationAbandoned Mine Land Reauthorization Act is introduced to restore old coal mines and revitalize historic coal communitiesFive elements of state and federal support that cities need to address “Hypervacancy” and catalyze neighborhood recoveryThe grand regeneration of London’s historic Battersea Power Station secures £600 million for the third and final stage of revitalizationDept. of Commerce seeks public input on how federal agencies can support sustainable revitalization in Opportunity ZonesReducing U.S. infrastructure renewal deficit: $225 million goes to 20 bridge replacement and rehabilitation projects in 18 statesConnecticut Governor Ned Lamont signs an Executive Order to make the state, its cities and its ecosystems more climate-resilientA suburb of the USA’s fossil fuel capital will be revitalized by repurposing a 240-acre former landfill into a solar energy farmPost-earthquake Regeneration Plan for the 1503-acre Ōtākaro Avon River Corridor is approved in Christchurch, New ZealandGrowing the global restoration economy: Timberland commits to planting 50 million trees all around the worldRestoration Economy Irony: A partnership in Alberta, Canada will grow biomass for renewable energy on old coal minesUtah’s Watershed Restoration Initiative adds $36 million for 121 wildland restoration and rehabilitation projects on 173,000 acresBedrock hires ODA for restoration of Detroit’s historic book Tower; downtown’s most ambitious adaptive reuse projectPeekskill, New York wins $10 million from state to revitalize both their downtown and their transit-oriented waterfrontThis massive, green urban regeneration project in Central Tokyo, Japan will link two other major revitalization projects32 strategic projects are funded in two New York communities—Owego and Penn Yan—to revitalize their historic downtownsIndian Prime Minister Modi boosts land restoration goal to 65 million acres by 2030, and calls for global water action agendaAfter Britain lost 92% of its seagrasses in the 20th century, Wales launches the largest-ever UK seagrass restoration effortTo boost climate resilience in New York City, the largest green infrastructure program in America has now been doubled in sizeCooks Venture, a next-generation ag-tech company, raises $12 million to develop advanced regenerative agriculture systemsOne woman’s “impossible” landscape restoration story emerges from Jordan, as nature and agriculture are revived together