Feature Article As climate crisis threatens Virginia’s coast, one woman has worked 30 years to restore habitats and boost community resilience Current News GUEST ARTICLE – The Adaptive Resilience Trend: What it is, why it’s urgently needed, and how it’s manifesting worldwideReforestation is obviously crucial to climate restoration. Done right, it can also revitalize both biodiversity and human economiesBernie Sanders says regenerative organic agriculture needed for climate restoration, human health and rural economic growthIn Northern Virginia, a closed landfill might be environmentally and economically revitalized as an indoor ski slopeTen downtown historic buildings might now be revitalized thanks to $100,000 in Louisiana Main Street Restoration GrantsHow to turn ugly, vacant concrete farm buildings into an inviting tourist facility that helps economically revitalize a regionGreen energy from landfills: U.S. restoration economy accelerates as a brightfield company gets a significant new investmentHistoric new effort is launched to restore and rewild the native mountaintop forests in the Highlands of ScotlandMaryland’s Swan Island—on the verge of disappearing due to erosion—is ecologically restored via beneficial reuse of dredgeWith one of the poorest tree canopies in the U.S., New Orleans launches reforestation initiative to restore green infrastructureThis U.S. big city mayor realizes that economic revitalization without affordable housing undermines its own successEPA boosts Great Lakes Restoration Initiative with $1,750,000 for Minnesota ecological restoration projects on Lake SuperiorNOAA and partners launch an unprecedented, decades-long effort to restore iconic reefs in the Florida KeysIn Seoul, landscape architects turn a mess of highways and parking lots into a lively, natural, pedestrian-friendly waterfrontEcological restoration and economic revitalization dreams are coming true with this bird’s return after a 70-year absence38 California projects receive $21.45 million to help restore wetlands, watersheds, salmon habitat and our global climateThe brightfields trend accelerates as New Jersey’s Public Service Electric & Gas Co. opens its largest brownfield solar farmInvest Detroit’s Strategic Neighborhood Fund wins $10 million to revitalize neighborhoods and commercial corridors across the cityBadly-planned highway is now a pedestrian-friendly boulevard, restoring residents’ health & reconnecting them to waterfrontDe-Engineering New Jersey: Another useless, nature-killing dam comes down as the state’s streams & rivers start flowing freely againMaryland announces over $30 million to help revitalize 23 communities, hoping to leverage more than $600 million in private investmentNew revitalization projects to attract $45.8 million & create 761 jobs; one will reconnect downtown Grand Haven, MI to its riverGallup Main Street Program wins $800,000 for infrastructure renewal to revitalize two blocks into vibrant downtown plazaAustralia’s fastest-growing city, Melbourne, has a new strategy to reconnect, activate and revitalize the banks of their urban riverRestoring your urban tree canopy restores your urban health: New proof is offered by the largest-ever global studyState and non-profit partner to complete restoration of 40-acre oyster reef in North Carolina for “50 Million Oyster Initiative”Pawtucket’s $400 million soccer-oriented waterfront redevelopment to be largest revitalization project in the city’s historyYoungstown, Ohio wins $1.6 million to create revolving loan fund that will help revitalize region by supporting local entrepreneursCreating effective climate adaptation and resilience initiatives: What wealthy nations can learn from lesser-developed countriesTexas invests an additional $6.6 million to restore ecosystems and boost coastal resilience at two wildlife refugesRenovating a conference center into a green, sustainable, innovative urban oasis that revitalizes surrounding neighborhoodsTwelve historic preservation and restoration projects win awards for community renewal, economic development and job growth in NY$180 million project hopes to revitalize the downtown of little Loganville, Georgia as a public-private redevelopment partnershipRestoring our climate and adapting to climate change (e.g. regenerative agriculture) is a crucial path to restoring global peaceThe new “Scallop Sitters” program hopes to accelerate the restoration of bay scallop fisheries along Florida’s Panhandle coastDowntown Detroit’s historic 1924 Women’s City Club building to be restored and reused as shared office space for entrepreneurs