Feature Article Positive New Trend: America’s governors are launching statewide revitalization, restoration and resilience initiatives Current News GUEST ARTICLE: A young Appalachian native comes home to help revitalize an economy devastated by the transition away from coalThe international “Trees In Cities Challenge” launches with four cities leading to way to urban-based global climate restorationMichigan uses crowdfunding for a match campaign to repurpose & renew an abandoned inn into a senior center and public parkBahamas Catastrophe Proves Stanford Study: Restoring natural defenses is best strategy to benefit people & boost coastal resilienceNew Jersey gets serious about leveraging Opportunity Zones to revitalize 75 cities & towns: Launches OZ portal for investorsIn Dapeng, China, a 130-kilometer stretch of typhoon-damaged coast will enjoy resilient revitalization via an innovative new strategyWith 100-year floods becoming annual for 680 million people in low-lying coastal cities & islands, the time to adapt or retreat is nowConservancy’s $150 million project will build a new pool & skating rink to complete the 40-year restoration of Central Park’s north endThe Permanently-Affordable Housing Trend: New program for community revitalization without gentrification launches in 3 citiesIn California, the Monterey Bay Aquarium puts orphans to work restoring ecosystems and sea otters of Elkhorn Slough estuary5 international organizations launch ECCA30 initiative to restore our climate via 75 million acres of forest landscape restorationLargest PACE Project in Michigan History: Hotel greens & repurposes an old building to revitalize and reconnect downtown DetroitAn innovative public-private partnership will renovate the run-down Rash Field Park on Baltimore’s revitalized Inner HarborEncore will repurpose more brownfield and landfill sites as renewable energy facilities with infusion of $1.8 million investmentA revitalizing new vision for The Hague would return ugly streets to the beautiful, historic 17th-Century canals they used to beRevolutionary new UNEP app, developed in Mexico, is enabling people worldwide to reforest the planet using their phonePrecedent-setting $100 million settlement might open funding floodgates for Louisiana coastal restoration and storm resilienceBaltimore, Maryland awards $3.3 million in community revitalization grants to 25 projects and neighborhood organizationsWells Fargo’s NeighborhoodLIFT program awards $600,000 to Los Angeles County nonprofits for revitalization effortsICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability) crowdfunds to boost urban and regional climate restoration investment worldwideConservationists and impact investors agree: Seaweed and shellfish farming can help restore our estuaries and oceansRestoring the World is Nonpartisan: U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee approves Chesapeake Bay oyster restoration fundingNine of the wealthiest, healthiest cities and counties in the United States band together as a region to make things even betterThe sustainable redevelopment of a 178-acre riverfront brownfield in Pittsburgh is about to get a huge solar array on its roofInnovative new website is launched by an international network of tropical forest restoration experts to advance practiceClimate Restoration Reality Check: Farmer-managed natural regeneration is a key to planting a trillion trees worldwide69 towns all across the United Kingdom will share £95 million to revitalize their historic high streets & compete with online shoppingLow Carbon Innovation Centres are created in Vancouver, BC and Edmonton, AB with $44 million for climate crisis and green jobsThe 2019 Aga Khan Awards for Architecture go to historic revitalization and wetland restoration projects; will share $1 millionReviving A Marvel of Green Engineering: Ecologically restoring Sri Lanka’s historic, 2400-year-old cascade systemsPublic & private leaders worldwide champion Africa’s “Great Green Wall” to help restore climate, ecosystems and livelihoods togetherA $700 million start: A new financial trend emerges with issuance of the world’s first dedicated climate resilience bond by the EBRDNature-Based Solutions – like mangrove restoration & green infrastructure – boost adaptation, resilience & climate restorationDiscover the native American tribe that ecologically restored a shoreline damaged by Hurricane Sandy on Long Island, New YorkRenovation of historic 1931 Bayonne Bridge boosts economy, allows more-efficient ships and wins sustainable infrastructure award$3.1 million awarded to ecological restoration and green infrastructure projects in Rhode Island and Massachusetts