Issue #155

News

GUEST ARTICLE: As COP26 nears, some thoughts on how communities can build a sustainable, equitable, green economic recoveries

You’ve heard of “rewilding”. Now, “Seawilding” is working to restore marine ecosystems and revitalize coastal economies

Former auto salvage yards are usually nasty. This one in Vermont is now a community’s biodiversity-enhancing solar energy farm.

RECONOMICS: Google joins global restoration economy by pledging to become water-positive, and to help restore watersheds

As supply chain disruption grows, this $362 million will renovate and redesign American rail infrastructure, making it more resilient

Agencies focused on community revitalization usually work in isolation from each other: here’s a U.S. state where they work together

With fewer than 3000 residents, this midwest town is getting community revitalization assistance from architecture students

1 million trees planted: Searching the Congo for a successful forest restoration, human nutrition and renewable energy recipe

This transit-oriented infill redevelopment in downtown Salt Lake City promises residents a vibrant, affordable, car-free lifestyle

New building in Washington, DC’s revitalized Navy Yard has a water harvesting green roof, and will house 1000 people on one block

Global food company launches revitalizing new economic model to boost health and social harmony in struggling neighborhoods

RECONOMICS: The Tennessee Valley Authority is getting serious about reforesting clearcuts and restoring coal mines in Appalachia

Guess whose $732.3 million public-private partnership will redevelop a historic area into a technology and innovation district?

RECONOMICS: How to earn a living repairing our global climate & restoring biodiversity (such as koalas and giant earthworms)

RECONOMICS: This $7 billion investment fund thinks there’s money to be made regenerating the world’s oceans. Let’s hope they’re right.

An abandoned, century-old historic railway headquarters ruin is restored & expanded as a beautiful office building in an urban park

Texas water utility wins EPA award for green infrastructure project to reconnect forests, restore biodiversity and boost resilience

This university in Chicago has renovated the ground floor of a historic 1896 building into a modern wellness center for students

Guess which U.S. city just gave $7.5 million to 28 local organizations to support downtown and neighborhood economic recovery?

New redevelopment partnership to turn historic 63-acre Pennsylvania steelmaking site into new industry, including film studio

Counter to the offices-to-residences trend, 50-year-old energy-inefficient apartments are now a green headquarters building

“Revitalizing Downtowns Act” to create new tax credit for repurposing obsolete / excess office buildings into residential & mixed-use

Small Texas city repurposes historic school as an arts/culture center & creates new park via their $23 million downtown revitalization

100 community revitalization organizations across the United States receive $5 billion in New Markets Tax Credits to support renewal

Belize joins the global restoration economy with a commitment to restore and protect its mangrove and seagrass ecosystems

3.75 million deforested acres restored: The regeneration of Brazil’s threatened Atlantic Forests is much faster than expected!

Can you guess which U.S. state has recently invested $65 million in strengthening its communities’ resilience to the climate crisis?

How do you restore a castle that’s over 1000 years old, and has cannonballs embedded in the walls? Architects reveal how they did it.

$7.27 million in grants have been awarded to help revitalize rural U.S. communities by restoring and reusing historic buildings

The $190 million restoration & revitalization of Newark, New Jersey’s historic Penn Station advances with search for private partner