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Community Organization Helps South Bronx Go Green
By Jamie Nesbitt

The South Bronx has witnessed the birth of hip hop, Jennifer Lopez and Al Pacino. Now it has a front-row seat to an environmental renaissance, as the community turns injustice into economic empowerment. With the help of Sustainable South Bronx (SSB), a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the beleaguered neighborhood through environmental and economic sustainability, ordinary residents are becoming brownfield experts thanks to the Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training (B.E.S.T.) program.

Former Indianapolis Brownfield Gets New Resident, Adds 50 Jobs
Indianapolis’s largest brownfield site will experience a second life when a city-based manufacturing firm builds its new 150,000 square-foot building on the property. Major Tool and Machine recently purchased the former home of Ertel Manufacturing Corp., which produced auto parts for over 80 years.

It was abandoned in 2002 after its last occupant, the Dynagear Corp, shut down valve production and moved out of the city.

Mission Bay Gets a Makeover-Innovative Remediation and Planning Strategy Facilitates Transformation of an Abandoned Railyard into a World-Class, Mixed-Use Community
San Francisco’s Mission Bay redevelopment is one of the West Coast’s highest-profile brownfield projects, transforming former railyards into a mixed-use, mixed-density extension of the urban fabric. The site is home to several thousand existing or planned residential units, nearly 50 acres of public parks and open space, major bioscience and technology employment centers, and the new campus of the University of California, San Francisco medical school.

ClimatSol to Green Brownfield Redevelopment in Quebec
by Jamie Nesbitt

Quebec recently unveiled an enhanced program for subsidizing brownfield redevelopment within the province. The new program, called ClimatSol, replaces ReviSol, a similar plan that ended in 2006.

While ReviSol focused strictly on redevelopment, ClimatSol will expand its efforts to uphold the rules of the Kyoto Protocol and require all eligible projects to provide for the retention or creation of surface vegetation or, in the case of construction projects, employ green building technologies to reduce energy consumption.

 

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