Issue #116

News

Storm Cunningham’s third book “RECONOMICS: The Path To Resilient Prosperity” has been published! Read the entire Introduction here.

A regenerative agriculture pilot program has been launched by General Mills to help farmers restore Wichita, Kansas watershed

Quail restoration program launched in South Carolina as wild quail populations plummet across the southeast United States

New revitalization plan links 17 St. Louis neighborhoods with parks, jobs, transit corridors and arts/educational institutions

As climate risks to businesses surpass $1 trillion, Goldman Sachs sees urban resilience as historic global investment opportunity

In a bipartisan effort, Democrat and Republican senators urge $320 million in Great Lakes Restoration funding for FY2021

16 brownfields sites in Massachusetts win $2.6 million from Redevelopment Fund for environmental assessment and cleanup

Here’s a climate restoration solution that’s so obvious—and has so much nonpartisan appeal—that even Donald Trump supports it

Britain’s 125-year-old National Trust makes historic commitment to go carbon-neutral by planting 20 million trees in 10 years

The restoration and expansion of this century-old Carnegie Library includes green infrastructure for watershed restoration

How to reduce resource conflicts: A unique global initiative has been launched to promote “Peace Forests” via land restoration

Designers have now been chosen for the £1.5 billion urban regeneration of the historic markets in the heart of Birmingham, England

$760 billion “Moving Forward Framework” to revitalize U.S. economy, renew crumbling infrastructure, create jobs & restore climate

Rural America gets revitalizing news, as FCC announces a 10-year, $20.4 billion program to provide gigabit broadband

Farmers in Senegal reject the chemical industry to regenerate their soil and boost their climate resilience via agroecology

$33.1 million national fund to help revitalize communities by boosting small businesses, climate resilience and affordable housing

The restoration and expansion of Scotland’s Paisley Museum is expected to help revitalize the local economy with a £79 million boost

Boosting community climate resilience often requires updating stormwater rules at the state level: New Jersey leads the way

Boosting climate restoration and resilience together: UNEP and IUCN team up to launch Global Fund for Ecosystem-based Adaptation

Paris will repurpose, renew and reconnect old rail center into a mixed-use, carbon-neutral, nature-based neighborhood

A revitalizing vision for Lugano, Switzerland reconnects the city to its waterfront via mobility, beautifies it with floating gardens

Carbon-negative is what counts now. Microsoft joins climate restoration economy: Will remove all carbon it has ever emitted

Six North Carolina communities win three years of technical assistance services for asset-based downtown revitalization

University of Wyoming researchers develop a new approach to restoring ecosystem diversity on old coal and uranium mines

Cosmetics company L’OCCITANE joins the restoration economy, creating an Ecosystem Restoration Fund for climate crisis disasters

Grenada gets a $20 million boost to strengthen its resilience to rapidly-accelerating climate-related disasters

Seneca Falls, NY wins $10 million to revitalize its downtown, and opens National Women’s Hall of Fame in a restored historic mill

A $400 million “Opportunity Zone” revitalization project will redevelop an old mall in Atlanta, Georgia’s historic West End

State of New Jersey partners with a research university, creating a new brownfields center to facilitate community revitalization

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia is transforming an 18-hole urban golf course into a nature-and-culture-based public park

Built in 1817 to grow economy, Erie Canal’s $300 million plan will now repurpose, renew and reconnect it to revitalize the economy

Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority wins $1,611,426 from EPA to restore marshes via beneficial reuse of dredge

Can a post-industrial city revitalize old neighborhoods by selling vacant houses for less than the price of a cup of coffee?

In Israel, a restored 300-year-old house in the Jaffa Port of Tel Aviv enjoys a beautiful new life with modern technologies

A new partnership hopes to economically revitalize the Pine Ridge Reservation and support bison-based ecological restoration

Washington state awards $1.6 million in grants to nine collaborative local groups for forest restoration and resilience