GUEST ARTICLE: How Lancaster, Ohio boosted public safety while revitalizing downtown New research reveals cost effectiveness of coastal restoration for improved resilience Canadian Rivers Institute launches research on dam removal and river restoration Duke University & Delta Airlines turn carbon credits into green, resilient neighborhoods A major rebirth coming to Indianapolis with redevelopment of 103-acre riverfront GM site Dead U.S. Navy base is being reborn as “smart” transit-oriented, mixed-use neighborhood Amman, Jordan renovates public spaces to support arriving refugees & foster harmony California student asks: Why do white folks get all the stream restoration projects? $115 million cleanup for deadly riverfront waste pits in Houston, Texas is approved In 2017 Peabody restored 40% more land than they damaged; wins mine reclamation award Restoration of San Francisco Bay quickens, thanks to responsible local taxpayers Sri Lanka offers a cautionary tale of how not to rebuild after catastrophe Unable to reduce surplus property without BRAC, the Pentagon has a revitalizing option Salmon recovery group creates a game to fund restoration of steelhead in Puget Sound Toronto to repurpose, renew and reconnect 16 kilometers of under-utilized land New action plan to drive inclusive, design-based revitalization in Detroit, Michigan 13 multi-billion-dollar projects reveal world’s rapid urban redevelopment trend Delicious News: Ecologically restorative “chocolate forests” are on the rise in Brazil The rapidly-built Ringling Theatre is rapidly & beautifully restored in Baraboo, Wisconsin Canada’s $180-billion investment in transit, green infrastructure & clean energy begins Highway engineers tried to kill this town. Artists and higher local taxes revitalized it. Ocean City, NJ draws planning inspiration from ecologically-restored Poplar Island Extinct in New South Wales, Australia for a century, the Greater Bilby is being restored 3 Minnesota communities agree to redesign & revitalize the ugly place where they all meet How not to revitalize a neighborhood: A project so bad, they made a movie about it California farmers welcome bugs on their land to help restore salmon and other fish How the Port of Los Angeles is repurposing, renewing & reconnecting the LA waterfront Innovative female farmers in Bangladesh rise from poverty on barren, temporary land Greening, reconnecting & revitalizing sterile 50-year-old residential towers in Toronto Harnessing natural processes to accelerate restoration of coral reef ecosystems Milwaukee’s public housing revitalization is a spectacular “Choice Grants” success story Bay Bridge remnants will soon be repurposed as public parks for Oakland & San Francisco The post-industrial canal area of Brussels, Belgium is about to get a spectacular rebirth Housing Infrastructure Fund to revitalize an English downtown scorned as “a cemetery” Renovating and redesigning rundown parks as green infrastructure to restore streams 3rd-generation immigrant cattle rancher in Arizona honored for ecological restoration