GUEST ARTICLE – Massive new funding for remediation and redevelopment projects is available to revitalize American communities America’s leading “natural meat snack” manufacturer will now be certified for its regenerative farming and ranching practices 26 Local Development Districts in Appalachia win $2.5 million to boost federal fundraising capacity for economic revitalization Drug firm to plant 200 million trees by 2030 by reforesting US, UK, France, Vietnam, Brazil, India, Ghana, Rwanda, Australia, & Indonesia Restoration Economy: How adaptively reusing old office buildings as hotels is greening neighborhoods and revitalizing communities This former North Carolina mill town is revitalizing its industrial economy by taking advantage of existing rail infrastructure $119 million renovation will green the Port of Oakland, California to clean the air and make the area more pedestrian-friendly Kiss The Ground launches new series of mini-videos documenting the successes of regenerative farmers and ranchers Orphaned oil & gas wells pollute backyards, parks & farmland across America. This $660 million investment will help clean them up. U.S. launches new $60 million Ocean-Based Climate Resilience Accelerators program to restore and strengthen coastal communities Ohio General Assembly enacts $500 million in new community revitalization incentives with their Brownfield Remediation Program 14 Massachusetts communities celebrate receiving $8,740,000 to clean, redevelop and revitalize contaminated industrial sites Auburn University researchers are helping to ecologically restore and economically revitalize Alabama’s oyster heritage Governors say Congress must accelerate delivery of environmental restoration, clean energy, and infrastructure renewal projects This $33 million will restore and protect riparian ecosystems and crucial watersheds in Nevada’s greater Desert Terminal Lakes 24 regenerative projects receive $52 million to restore ecosystems and boost climate resilience around San Francisco Bay Land banks have tremendous potential to revitalize communities, but not all states properly support them. This one does. 22 restorative University of California – Santa Cruz projects win $4.6 million to boost climate resilience in coastal communities Restoration Economy: U.S. Senator addresses coastal Louisiana’s existential crisis at the “Restore Or Retreat” conference Here are five ways enlightened educational anchor institutions are catalyzing economic recovery and community revitalization American communities celebrate grants from the “Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability & Equity” (RAISE) program Six Virginia communities will reconnect and revitalize neighborhoods by renewing their decrepit or badly-designed infrastructure Brighton, Colorado leaders celebrate a new phase of cleaning and reusing toxic, blighted properties in their downtown core Banned for 50 years, swimming is now (occasionally) possible in Washington, DC’s formerly filthy, neglected Anacostia River Vacant since 2007, this toxic manufacturing site in Keokuk, Iowa will finally be cleaned, reused and economically revitalized Two dozen blighted properties in Flathead County, Montana will be remediated and reused to revitalize three communities Revitalization might finally be coming to two disadvantaged Toledo, Ohio neighborhoods with this $20 million infrastructure renewal Restoration Economy: $60 million investment will grow regenerative, well-paid climate resilience-related jobs across America Brooklyn College students use their campus to test green infrastructure technology that could boost New York City’s resilience This newly-completed expansion hopes to revitalize both the National Museum Of Play and downtown Rochester, New York
