Québec affordable housing revived with almost $1B for renovation & construction
The Canadian federal government and the province of Québec have agreed to invest $407 million into social housing in Quebec over two years, with…
Issue #44: February 1, 2017
Can a new cod trap help restore a fishery & revitalize 500-yr-old Newfoundland town?
Cod was the economic and cultural bedrock of Newfoundland’s isolated ‘outport’ villages for more than 500 years. That bedrock began to crumble in the…
$812 million in BP spill fines approved to ecologically restore Louisiana coast
On January 18, 2016, Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) gave final approval to a plan for spending $812 million of federal Restore…
Ten U.S. cities that could revitalize by demolishing their dumb urban highways
Many cities have demolished disruptive, badly-planned urban highways in the past decade, and none of them regret it. New York City’s Hudson River waterfront…
National Green Infrastructure Certification Program is introduced in U.S.
On January 30, 2017, DC Water and the Water Environment Federation (WEF) announced the issuance of the first certifications under the National Green Infrastructure…
