GUEST ARTICLE – How Home Solar Helps Revitalize and Renew our Planet Creating a Team to Implement Resilient Prosperity in Your Community Oklahoma tribes band together to restore Monarch Butterfly habitat Public-private partners restore 6 historic buildings to revitalize town center How to buy a historic bank for $1 and repurpose it into $3.7 million arts center Reclaiming Futures: Can restorative justice plug America’s school-to-prison pipeline? Restoration of San Francisco Bay wetlands is now crucial to local climate resilience Father and son revive ancestors’ bourbon legacy in restored downtown warehouse Plutonium cleanup continues where U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Spain in 1966 Regeneration of Birmingham’s (UK) canalside stands the test of time Descendants praise £9 million regeneration of historic English pottery firm Residential redevelopment for stadium as team moves into empty Olympic facility Detroit’s 2-wheeled revitalization: Bicycles help bring Motor City back to life Excess carbon dioxide is an asset when practicing restorative agriculture Dallas park reconnects city and inspires better planning for aging urban highways Vancouver BC creek is restored by artistic climate change adaptation team Mixed-use redevelopment to transform ugly 3.5 acre parking lot in Arlington, VA Rebirth of historic Johnson City, TN downtown brings enthusiasm & activity Restorative ocean farming system wins 2015 (Buckminster) Fuller Challenge A rebirth for the historic, art deco Commodore bar in downtown St. Paul, MN How restoration of federal recognition restored Ponca tribe’s culture & economy Devon, Alberta seeks to revitalize its downtown revitalization effort Historic one-room Kentucky schoolhouse moved, restored, and opened to public Dallas finally wakes up to the importance of restoring & reusing historic buildings Innovative Welsh project to increase city’s storm resilience and provide green power Bicycles Build Business: How bike lanes revived Salt Lake City’s downtown economy How immigrants are reinventing and reinvigorating Rustbelt cities Man, woman, and EPA transform filthy Atlanta bus depot into healthy urban farm Urban agriculture trend can make better places and healthier economies Movie shows how dramatic new hotel hopes to revitalize devastated fishing community Akron’s “revitalization picnic” envisions future without badly-planned highway £300 million regeneration of historic warehouse to revitalize Manchester, UK County wants to help city of La Crosse, WI revitalize neighborhoods near downtown United Nations global land restoration commitment will affect Paris climate talks Hanalei River restoration to restore water flow to Kauai farmers and wildlife refuge Brothers repurpose historic school as hotel & catalyze community revitalization Restore the Soil, Revitalize the City: Detroit asks worms to revive vacant lots Feds reintroduce Mexican wolves to New Mexico, despite local fear & ignorance Demolish one of Chicago’s worst urban planning mistakes to revitalize waterfront New South Wales, Australia reveals transit-oriented urban renewal plan 5 exciting new projects repurpose, renew, & reconnect assets to revitalize U.S. cities “World-class regeneration” to transform beachfront in Swansea, Wales $6M “green” senior center helps revitalize blighted downtown area of Belleville, IL Tel Aviv repurposes dying public library as economic revitalization catalyst John Steinbeck’s famous boat to get $2 million restoration in Port Townsend, WA The ghost of Pearl Harbor is being restored, and you can watch Motel repurposed as rehab hospital gets its own $10 million rehab in Oklahoma City Phase 1 of $65 million mixed-use Detroit riverfront redevelopment breaks ground Citizens ask: Is it OK for cities to do nothing while planning revitalization? $15 million, 22-block urban agriculture project to revitalize Detroit neighborhood Malaga, Spain restores urban forest with 37,610 native trees How restoring dormant coffee plantations is revitalizing a war-torn nation Waterfront redevelopment in Syracuse, NY will move historic 1918 building Johnstown, Pennsylvania hopes “maker movement” can reinvent and revitalize city How immigrants are restoring crop diversity to America’s urban food systems After years of talk, revitalization efforts begin in Huntersville, North Carolina Repurposing Tobacco Warehouse for housing can revitalize Liverpool docklands Pittsburgh’s $150 million East Liberty transit center opens, revitalizing area Toledo, Ohio plants trees & creates park to revitalize city & restore Great Lakes Entrepreneurs cheer the revitalization of downtown Eastlake, Alabama Minnesota restores beauty and health to river that had been engineered into a ditch West Yorkshire communities inventory derelict sites for regeneration Dueling Revitalizers: 4 candidates compete on ability to bring city back to life 12 ecological restoration projects designed to rewild Great Britain Valencia repurposes urban riverbed as park, fails to connect it for pedestrians How Milan, Italy revitalized its car-centric downtown in 3 easy steps Downtown transit + heritage renewal = award-winning revitalization in Plano, TX