Feature Article Houston’s restorative 10-year plan gets $100 million from foundation for revitalization, green infrastructure & climate resilience Current News GUEST ARTICLE: Greening and revitalizing our neighborhoods to create places that beautifully connect people to natureThis iconic fossil fuel monster, made famous by Pink Floyd, has been reborn as a green, mixed-use, transit-oriented neighborhoodDetroit celebrates future revitalization, joining trend of dismantling a devitalizing, badly-planned, racist urban highwayIn the drought-stricken American southwest, university partners win $6 million to boost climate resilience for ranchers and tribesThis Mexican group’s successful ecological restoration of Baja California islands is benefiting all three North American nationsSeattle wins an international award for its work to create equitable, inclusive climate adaptation, mitigation and resilienceThree arts-related heritage restoration projects receive $6.5 million to help revitalize historic downtowns in ColoradoIn a model for disaster-prone states, cities in four areas of New Jersey collaborate to publish regional climate resilience plansThis Detroit revitalization group helps create green, equitable, healthy neighborhoods with a high quality of life for allRestoration Economy: American architects catch up with older nations, with over half of work now renovating existing buildingsWashington, DC Metro Area Transit launches first major redesign in 50 years to revitalize bus service, and it’s customer-drivenEntrepreneurs celebrate college & state DOT partnership to help revitalize downtown via $11.2 million in infrastructure renovationKentucky wins $74 million to create good restoration economy jobs on mined & drilled lands, catalyzing economic revitalizationNevada wins $2,150,000 to clean up legacy pollution and restore damage left behind by mining, ranching and other industriesRestoration Economy: As cities seek climate resilience, Wall Street catches on to the global explosion of green infrastructureThis former Brooklyn torpedo factory is helping to revitalize a historic district as a new public library, apartments and retailA car-centric downtown shopping mall that obstructed vitality for half a century has been greened, re-socialized and revitalizedUniversity of Tennessee alums win cash prize for revitalizing Knoxville’s economy with innovative environmental tech start-upThese redevelopment projects just won $72 million from Maryland’s six state-level historic downtown revitalization programsJersey City’s waterfront revitalization advances as first new building wins approval of “impossible” 35% affordable housingRevitalization of downtown Jersey City advances as rehabilitation of Loew’s Theatre wins $42.27 million in historic tax creditsNeighborhood revitalization in NYC advances as reuse of one blighted site into affordable housing begins, while another is completedA model for all U.S. states? New Jersey program supports economic recovery in urban areas with mass transit hurt by COVID36 underserved Maryland communities plant 40,000 trees to revive quality of life, reduce urban heat islands and boost resilienceIn Appalachia, mining communities damaged by reduced coal usage win record amounts of federal economic revitalization fundingRenovating our automobile infrastructure won’t restore our climate: A gondola is proposed for Los Angeles baseball fansNew York’s Great Lakes Action Agenda 2022-2030 focuses on ecosystem restoration-based community resilience strategiesCommunity leaders celebrate $85 million renovation of 391-unit, 21.5 acre affordable housing complex in Camden, New JerseyThis small Connecticut city just won $650,000 to revitalize their economy by cleaning and reusing a huge, historic millHere are five restorative, resilient ways we can more effectively adapt to the climate crisis at the national level