GUEST ARTICLE – Supply chain networks are being renovated to boost efficiency and economically revitalize key regions in U.S. Creating A Re-Generation: The American Climate Corps is launched to give youth regenerative skills for a resilient future This historic 1931 art deco women’s prison in New York is about to be transformed into affordable and supportive housing Restoration Economy: This new research helps ocean regeneration projects identify what makes a fishery climate resilient How to define good outcomes and social benefits when creating and managing public-private urban revitalization partnerships 22 companies and multiple foundations pile on to this new $50 million investment fund, which advances regenerative agriculture Climate resilience and urban revitalization can and should go hand in hand. Here’s how it’s being done on New York City’s East River. Regenerative “Living Breakwaters” project on Staten Island just won an Obel Award for restoring coastal biodiversity and resilience Created in 1660 by illegal immigrants, Bergen Square is the oldest continuously-inhabited place in New Jersey. Now it’s being revitalized. California wins $103 million to help its cities build resilience to deadly extreme heat events by planting & better-maintaining urban trees Australia’s largest urban renewal project will replace 44 obsolete 70-year-old public housing towers for healthier, greener living Renovation and adaptive reuse of this office tower’s top floors creates a wonderful new amenity for Boston residents and visitors Green adaptive reuse of a vacant heritage building will help revitalize an important historic district in San Antonio, Texas Four Washington counties win $6.6 million in Community Economic Revitalization loans to leverage over $1 billion in private investment Six environmental restoration projects on abandoned mine lands in Pennsylvania win $38.76 million to revive poisoned streams This $50.6 million investment will restore 106,600 acres of wetland and upland habitat to help revive America’s migratory birds This state’s $19 million “Strong Communities” investment wisely integrates affordable housing with community revitalization Hope is on the horizon for redeveloping and revitalizing largest unused tract in District of Columbia: the 174-acre RFK Stadium site Since 1980, this state’s Main Street program leveraged $5.2 billion, creating 35,000 jobs and 7800 businesses to revitalize downtowns Millennium Challenge Corporation awards $500 million to Mozambique Connectivity and Coastal Resilience to revitalize livelihoods In Newark, this ugly surface parking lot will soon be a revitalizing new transit-oriented mixed use building with affordable housing Equitable Earth Coalition is launched to restore wildlife habitat and sequester carbon on indigenous lands worldwide This 6326-acre property in northeastern Maine is now protected, and will be enhanced to restore ecosystem’s native biodiversity Seattle’s leadership on boosting resilience by restoring urban tree canopies is awarded $12.9 million investment to expand efforts Remediating contaminated land is good. Remediating it sustainably and responsibly is better. That is this scientist’s mission. New “Coastal Ecological Restoration and Adaptation Planning Tool” supports this state’s Climate Change Resilience Strategy City & county create first multi-jurisdiction “Resilience Authority” in the U.S. to address worsening sea level rise, floods & heat waves Underserved Yorktown area of Philadelphia wins $500,000 neighborhood revitalization grant to renovate affordable housing As deadly heat waves become more frequent, $1 billion in grants will restore America’s urban tree cover to boost resilience Here’s the Port of Los Angeles’ plan to reconnect a redeveloped 30-acre waterfront site to help revitalize downtown San Pedro
