GUEST ARTICLE: How an abandoned mental health facility is revitalizing a historic Washington, DC neighborhood In Peru, indigenous communities and non-profits are reforesting the Andes mountains and restoring the Amazon River headwaters A reforestation campaign of one million trees will boost the disaster resilience of Peru’s Machu Picchu, while restoring its ecology With $500 million, Boston joins the strategic trend of boosting economic and social resilience by increasing affordable housing Dune restoration is key to increasing climate resilience, enhancing public recreation and regenerating coastal wildlife habitats A new science education initiative boosts climate resilience and rural revitalization by creating more women scientists in Africa Ending Perverse Subsidies: Restoration of the world’s fisheries will accelerate if we stop rewarding people for destroying them Buenas Aires is working hard to renovate its slums, but residents say the city needs to do a better job of engaging them in the process NOAA and Great Lakes Restoration Initiative are restoring wild rice to help preserve and revitalize Native American cultures Bipartisan Success: At $85 million, Chesapeake Bay restoration program is now enjoying its highest-ever levels of federal funding The Downtown Brooklyn Partnership unveils a revitalizing green plan that’s friendly to transit, bicyclists and pedestrians Vanuatu—one of the small island nations most at risk from the climate crisis—gets $10 million to boost resilience & adaptation Levee in northern Virginia wins “sustainable infrastructure” award for boosting flood resilience and community’s quality of life New U.S. EDA & Indiana University partnership launches the “USA Opportunity Zones” tool to accelerate OZ-powered urban revitalization In Shanghai, an abandoned urban corduroy factory that had blighted a neighborhood enjoys a beautiful new mixed-use life In Lyon, France, a historic 1857 factory building is restored and redesigned to serve a new generation of industrial uses On an islet in Paris, a historic 1868 absinthe factory is about to be repurposed and revitalized as a green co-working space Worried about catastrophic climate crisis claims, insurance companies form new multi-stakeholder coastal resilience alliance An interview with landscape architect Patricia O’Donnell on her work restoring public spaces in Pittsburgh & Washington, DC State of Maryland helps Baltimore revitalize historic 238-year-old downtown Lexington Market with a $3 million bridge loan New York State designates eight new Brownfield Opportunity Areas to fast-track revitalization in blighted neighborhoods A $3.5 million boost for an Ohio partnership that’s restoring acid streams from old mines by repurposing toxins as paint pigments In Ireland, a new vision for regenerating the city of Cork is centered on the revitalization of the Port of Cork’s Bantry Bay Historic agreement will revitalize rail service in Virginia and provide new bridge across Potomac River into Washington, DC The historic Prague State Opera has reopened to the public following a record-short three-year restoration and expansion Non-profit in Myanmar epitomizes the global trend of creating inclusive revitalization by cleaning and beautifying urban alleyways Fishing license fees on England’s River Stour fund the restoration of fish-spawning habitat and the improvement of public access Copenhagen sets standard again, revitalizing their former dump into a 100% timber construction, nature-based neighborhood California agencies release their draft water resilience portfolio to diversify, restore and reconnect the state’s aquatic resources A coalition of cities with a county in Arizona is asking local residents to nominate brownfield sites for revitalization These 10 innovative adaptive reuse projects hope to transform downtowns, revitalize dead spaces and give new life to useless junk In Kenya, resurrecting traditional grains boosts climate resilience, while value-added production boosts economic revitalization After an exhaustive, 8-year process of public engagement, Montana issues parameters for the restoration of publicly-managed bison An ugly parking lot in San Diego is about to be reborn as affordable housing to preserve and revitalize the Little Italy neighborhood The revitalizing element that every great city needs—a green, transit-linked central park—is coming to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam The Long Island Sound restoration program enjoys its highest level of funding in 26 years with $7 million federal budget increase
