Feature Article The Trust for Governors Island reveals plans to repurpose and revitalize this old military base into a global climate solutions center Current News EDITORIAL – The good news: The “UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration” has published its strategy. The bad news: It’s not a strategy.Revitalizing places by reducing cars: Downtown parking garage being replaced by green, transit-oriented office building10 Michigan freshwater restoration projects win $5 million to regenerate lakes and streams via watershed management plansNew research shows that a £5.5 billion fund is needed to boost the UK’s green economic recovery & it could have a dramatic 27:1 ROIThe “Rebuild Reopen Revive Initiative” helps rural and urban women-led businesses recover from COVID-19 economic crisisUniversity of California researchers win $380,000 from Sea Grant to develop effective strategies for kelp forest restorationGreen Climate Fund stimulates green, resilient COVID-19 economic recovery in over 100 nations with $878.8 million in new fundsArchitects design a new building that complements the industrial and rail heritage of this regenerating urban creative quarterHunters rendered Britain’s beavers extinct 400 years ago, but now—after a 5-year reintroduction experiment—they’re backInfrastructure resilience and community revitalization projects win $112 million to advance Michigan’s economic recoveryAustralia’s future “Silicon Valley” will have a “hybrid timber” tower, and will rise in the “air space” above a downtown train station70 projects in 44 U.S. states receive $1 billion to renew roads, bridges, transit, rail, ports & intermodal transportation infrastructureScattered-site redevelopment to revitalize historic Rochester neighborhood with 75 affordable & supportive homes + green spaceOld 12-acre factory site to become a new, green mixed-use neighborhood with over 750 homes + school & hotel, creating 2261 jobsCanadian project to turn downtown parking lot into neighborhood with library & urban agriculture wins green certificationIrish islands are smiling as they get €370,000 for resilience to climate-related sea level rise and storms via infrastructure renewalOECD issues their report on how to make a green recovery from COVID-19 produce the most jobs, income and economic growthWith stronger, more frequent hurricanes, Democrats & Republicans boost resilience via the “Strengthening Coastal Communities Act”Canada & BC partner to invest $28.5 million in energy-efficient infrastructure to boost resilience and COVID-19 economic recoveryThe revitalization of Toronto’s West End advances with a mixed-use flatiron building that celebrates the site’s industrial heritageHere’s a truly restorative beer: it’s made from purified sewage, and its example could help regenerate water supplies worldwide$8.73 million award will help farmers and ranchers ecologically restore the Prairie Pothole Region of Montana and the DakotasLouisiana Coastal Protection & Restoration Authority has been awarded $15 million to advance its adaptive management programThe designers of a proposed revitalization of this old logistics port and ferry terminal intend to create a “regenerative city”Morro Bay National Estuary Program and California Department of Fish & Wildlife complete 20-year ecological restorationIn Burlington, Vermont, a revitalizing new solar-powered YMCA rises on a redeveloped site that was vacant for a decadeDanone sponsors ALUS Canada’s regenerative agriculture project to restore 90 acres of wildlife habitat in three provincesAsheville, North Carolina has new Watershed Restoration Plan: restoring their urban tributaries to polluted river is the next stepTampa, Florida wins $24,000,000 to expand their beautiful Riverwalk to help revitalize the struggling west side of the cityVacant since 1998, Detroit’s historic 1925 Detroit Free Press building has been renovated as residences, and is now leasing