Gone are the days when public officials stood in front of an audience with their poster boards, pointer sticks and an already mapped-out plan for redevelopment, leaving no chance for a community to have its say in what’s best for a neighborhood.
Instead, the public today wants to be involved long before that poster board ever [...]
With Congress expected to begin discussions next year on the reauthorization of the brownfields program, an informal coalition is recommending several changes to the program.
The coalition, a mix of 15 public and private entities, was formed last year during the annual brownfields national conference in Denver. With the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization [...]
Six years ago, John Kolbe of Harrison, Idaho, was thinking about leaving this small town in the Idaho Panhandle. An aircraft mechanic, Kolbe couldn’t find much work in a town of about 250 people.
But then Kolbe had an idea. He heard of plans to convert the old railroad tracks running along Harrison’s lakeside into a [...]
A Portland coalition recently was awarded national funding to establish a community-based land trust to clean up and care for neglected areas in the city’s neighborhoods.
Groundwork Portland, a coalition consisting of community-based nonprofits as well as Portland State University, the city of Portland and EPA Region 10, aims to reclaim vacant and contaminated lands for [...]
Oct. 18-19 in Tacoma: Northwest Environmental Summit and Tradeshow at the Tacoma Convention and Trade Center. Register at http://www.ecwashington.org/.
Nov 3 in Portland: 9th Annual Advanced Conference on the Sediment Management, in the auditorium of World Trade Center Two. Register at http://www.elecenter.com/conferences.php.
Nov. 13-15 in Boston: Now in its 11th year, the national brownfields conference is the [...]
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