GUEST ARTICLE – An avid fisherman is given his dream job: ecologically restoring an important trout stream in Kentucky 8 New Jersey communities get $400,000 from 21st Century Redevelopment to redevelop, repurpose, or regreen stranded assets Want to help restore Louisiana’s coastal ecosystems? These folks are offering $1 million in matching funds to help you do it. U.S. city turns a brownfield parking lot into 201 transit-oriented affordable downtown apartments with a new fresh foods market A dumb project might inspire smart projects to repurpose abandoned offshore oil rigs for environmental and economic benefits Guess which small nation added $100 million to the Climate Investment Funds’ $8.5 billion Renewable Energy Integration program? 1300 jobs and 695 new homes being created at new business campus on redeveloped 60-acre brownfields site of historic car factory 3 companies win an award from Heritage Ohio for redeveloping a historic warehouse into residences, helping to revitalize arts district Two adaptive reuse projects that helped revitalize two Michigan communities win international economic development awards $213 million in new funding will power two national rural revitalization initiatives, repurposing & renewing 25 derelict buildings Mother and daughter are crowdfunding the rewilding of 450 acres of family farm to restore local biodiversity & global climate A Pennsylvania city revitalizes as two huge, long-vacant, contaminated historic silk mills are remediated and reincarnated as mixed-use As Britain’s post-Brexit economy declines, rural Ireland enjoys green, EU-funded, innovation-driven revitalization These two new U.S. wind power projects will help revitalize the economies of Long Island, New York and a rural island in Denmark New report shows that rewilding natural areas revitalizes rural economies & coastal communities, while boosting resilience Restoration Economy: 14 nations have just pledged to ecologically restore 16 million acres of degraded & deforested land by 2030 California schools get $1.6 million to track how restoration of kelp forests boosts coastal resilience and restores climate RECONOMICS: World Economic Forum releases new policy, business and finance “Toolkit of Solutions” to help cities decarbonize RECONOMICS: World Economic Forum says 20+ companies will restore or conserve 2.5 billion trees in 50+ countries by 2030 Organization led by and for people of color expands initiative to help over 100 U.S. cities create locally-driven housing revitalization After earthquake, gorgeous new pedestrian bridge to reconnect Mexican city & revitalize peoples’ relationship with a feared river New $3.2 million research on the benefits to humans & wildlife of ecologically restoring drained wetlands in 15 U.S. farming states Revitalizing IBM’s birthplace: Historic 1927 school building is now affordable housing for 61 families, including formerly homeless Economically-devastated, mining-ravaged county now has a low-carbon plan for revitalizing a run-down area of its only city Which state is investing $15 billion to boost community and agricultural resilience to climate-related fire and drought disasters? Mississippi River Restoration & Resilience Act to restore water quality and habitat while boosting resilience & environmental justice A New York town revitalizes with $56 million restoration of 100-year-old bridge and $11 million renovation of downtown roundabout Two companies win national award for their innovative research with indigenous tribes in the reclamation of a gold and copper mine Louisiana celebrates yet another ecological restoration success, as wildlife quickly makes itself at home again on Rabbit Island Largest-ever rural revitalization budget ($436 million) is announced, and the first-ever “Town Regeneration Officers” are hired
