Feature Article The first White House Summit & Framework on Building Climate Resilient Communities meets $500 million in new resilience investments Current News GUEST ARTICLE – Historic Preservation Fund has for decades quietly put millions annually into renovating America’s public assetsWith two of the three largest ports in the U.S., this state is investing a historic $240 million to renovate all five of their seaportsIn downtown Chicago, Illinois, a beautiful mixed-use high-rise revitalizes the blighted site of a former auto repair repair shopRestoration Economy: Seattle, Washington’s comprehensive new downtown activation and revitalization plan is signed into lawA family of native beavers is seen on restored habitat in London, England after being hunted to local extinction over 400 years agoAs methylmercury farm runoff poisons rivers in Oregon and Idaho, this new $5.6 million project hopes to restore a watershed27 acres of ugly parking lot redeveloped into green new neighborhood connected to transit and 350-mile San Francisco Bay Trail$49 million Purdue University partnership with Abt Associates and USAID to help nations meet their climate restoration commitmentsThree University of California – Santa Cruz research projects advance climate resilience via robotics, microgrids and game theoryUK government invests $73.8 million in 100 regeneration projects to turn brownfield land into 6000 much-needed new homesRewilding leaders and supporters all across Scotland are celebrating an additional £5 million from the Nature Restoration FundNew global partnership to boost resilience for half a billion people by restoring 125,000 square kilometers of tropical coral reefsMore revitalization comes to Brooklyn’s post-industrial waterfront with this beautiful adaptive reuse of the Domino sugar factoryAs a “great wave of adaptive reuse” sweeps nation, energy-efficient Women & Children’s Center revitalizes a failed mixed-use towerNew $44 million, 5-year partnership plans to restore rapidly-disappearing whitebark pine all across the western United StatesAustralia commits $15 million to regenerate the Great Barrier Reef by restoring degraded coastal wetlands, mangroves and seagrassesWhile the U.S. government was on the verge of shut-down, the Brownfields revitalization program inspired bipartisan harmonyGas pipeline burial to expand fish migration by 20 miles. California neighborhoods will see salmon for first time in over 50 years.Restoration Economy: $10 billion investment will accelerate much-needed renovation and replacement of decrepit American bridgesThe $50 million Rural Outdoor Investment Act is introduced to U.S. Senate to help revitalize rural recreation economies nationwideFour small firms win $500,000 in Climate Resilience Prizes to advance technology-based solutions for vulnerable communitiesRockefeller Foundation is now supporting regenerative agriculture to boost climate resilience in Cambodia, Laos and ThailandAfter centuries of violent suppression, the revitalization of Indigenous languages in the U.S. and Canada is gaining momentum$76.4 million is awarded to research to make electrical grids more disaster-resilient, and to reduce wildfires sparked by gridsAs climate crisis forces insurance companies to abandon coastal areas, another U.S. state launches an Office of Risk and ResilienceKansas City, Kansas leaders celebrate strong developer interest in redeveloping defunct mall and other key abandoned propertiesRestoration Economy: A unique public-private partnership celebrates restoration of 3200 acres of clear-cut redwoods in CaliforniaFeds reactivate plan to restore grizzly bears to the Northern Cascades after it was tragically sabotaged by Trump on 2020This $235 million will advance environmental justice and transform polluted, vacant & abandoned properties into community assets42 distressed or low-income neighborhoods in Pennsylvania win $1.22 million for long-term community revitalization initiatives