GUEST ARTICLE: 11 ways to rejuvenate your small business environment, as a strategy for revitalizing your downtown Why community-owned grocery stores—such as co-ops—might be the best strategy for revitalizing urban food deserts The Thousand Hills Lifetime Grazed company adopts regenerative agriculture to restore grasslands, topsoil, watersheds and climate Researchers at Wake Forest University discover that biochar helps rain forest restoration efforts get off to a better start Appalachian Hope: Coal isn’t going to bounce back in West Virginia, but tourism and recreation can replace it Santa Monica, California wins international award for sustainable infrastructure for restoring water quality at famous beach $13.4 million in Community Development Block Grants awarded to 14 revitalizing projects in counties and communities across Virginia University of Puerto Rico and University of the Virgin Islands partner to improve resilience and disaster recovery initiatives New research from China reveals that we shouldn’t be too quick to dismiss regenerated forests as “green deserts” The Five Star & Urban Waters Restoration Program awards $1.7 million to 46 projects, and grantees add another $4.4 million ADAPT NOW: A global call for leadership on climate resilience from the Global Commission on Adaptation For developing nations damaged by the climate crisis, the “Aid for Trade” program can offer hope for a more resilient future Impressive Success! NOAA recruits partners and volunteers to help restore Puerto Rico’s coral reefs, nature reserves and trails U.S. EPA accelerates $2.4 million in NFWF Small Watershed Grants to Pennsylvania for Chesapeake Bay restoration Europe boosts restoration economy via new policy and planning guidelines on ecosystem services and blue/green infrastructure UNESCO announces that the “Revive the Spirit of Mosul” initiative will launch in 2020 to restore heritage, health and education Abandoned Mine Land Reauthorization Act is introduced to restore old coal mines and revitalize historic coal communities Five elements of state and federal support that cities need to address “Hypervacancy” and catalyze neighborhood recovery The grand regeneration of London’s historic Battersea Power Station secures £600 million for the third and final stage of revitalization Dept. of Commerce seeks public input on how federal agencies can support sustainable revitalization in Opportunity Zones Reducing U.S. infrastructure renewal deficit: $225 million goes to 20 bridge replacement and rehabilitation projects in 18 states Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signs an Executive Order to make the state, its cities and its ecosystems more climate-resilient A suburb of the USA’s fossil fuel capital will be revitalized by repurposing a 240-acre former landfill into a solar energy farm Post-earthquake Regeneration Plan for the 1503-acre Ōtākaro Avon River Corridor is approved in Christchurch, New Zealand Growing the global restoration economy: Timberland commits to planting 50 million trees all around the world Restoration Economy Irony: A partnership in Alberta, Canada will grow biomass for renewable energy on old coal mines Utah’s Watershed Restoration Initiative adds $36 million for 121 wildland restoration and rehabilitation projects on 173,000 acres Bedrock hires ODA for restoration of Detroit’s historic book Tower; downtown’s most ambitious adaptive reuse project Peekskill, New York wins $10 million from state to revitalize both their downtown and their transit-oriented waterfront This massive, green urban regeneration project in Central Tokyo, Japan will link two other major revitalization projects 32 strategic projects are funded in two New York communities—Owego and Penn Yan—to revitalize their historic downtowns Indian Prime Minister Modi boosts land restoration goal to 65 million acres by 2030, and calls for global water action agenda After Britain lost 92% of its seagrasses in the 20th century, Wales launches the largest-ever UK seagrass restoration effort To boost climate resilience in New York City, the largest green infrastructure program in America has now been doubled in size Cooks Venture, a next-generation ag-tech company, raises $12 million to develop advanced regenerative agriculture systems One woman’s “impossible” landscape restoration story emerges from Jordan, as nature and agriculture are revived together
