ID Crisis: Brownfields and ‘The Beltway’
Cover StoryBy Elizabeth Brewster
Promoting brownfield interests in Washington is a little like always being the new kid at school, say insiders: You have to figure out where you fit into the crowd and make a place for yourself there.
The brownfield redevelopment agenda has natural affinities with many other issues but has always struggled to develop an identity of its own, says Charlie Bartsch, …
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A ‘Symphony’ of Teamwork Defines Vegas Redevelopment
Once a rail yard for Union Pacific Railroad, Symphony Park in downtown Las Vegas is one of the most ambitious brownfield redevelopment programs in the country. The city of Las Vegas aims to convert 61 acres of a former…
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Battling Backlog: New Jersey’s LSRP to the Rescue
Four years ago, the problem of New Jersey’s contaminated sites backlog came to a head with the “Kiddie Kollege” disaster: A day care facility was found to have been built on unremediated property that had once housed a thermometer…
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Grassroots Organizations: Resilient, Results-Driven
In June 2007, Leonard Pitts, a legendary columnist for The Miami Herald, launched a year-long look at programs that are elevating the dire circumstances facing many African American children in America today. He called his series simply, "What Works." In…
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How Dynamic Data Enables Grants
Cities and towns across the United States have considerable incentive to remediate and reuse their brownfields. Besides protecting the environment, communities that succeed at putting contaminated sites back into productive use reduce blight, alleviate urban sprawl, attract new businesses and…
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ID Crisis: Brownfields and ‘The Beltway’
Promoting brownfield interests in Washington is a little like always being the new kid at school, say insiders: You have to figure out where you fit into the crowd and make a place for yourself there.
The brownfield redevelopment agenda has…
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The 'Greening' of Brownfield (Architectural Design) (Paperback)
Tackling a hot green architectural topic - brownfield sites - this title asks the essential question: how should urban and post-industrial sites best be rehabilitated to balance ecological and human needs?
This issue of AD is devoted to what planners...
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Covers the developments associated with environmentally impaired properties in the state of Illinois....
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Redeveloping Brownfields
Landscape Architects, Site Planners, Developers (Hardcover)
Site designer's brownfields remediation bible Packed with problem-solving strategies and procedures, Redeveloping Brownfields, by Thomas Russ, is an action manual for landscape architects, site planners, and developers involved with brownfield reclamation. All areas relevant to site design professionals are fully...
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Count On It
  28 percent approximate amount of all energy used in the Unites States for transporting people and goods from one place to another.
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 200-300 estimated number of hydrogen-fueled vehicles in the United States today
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 9,783,000 number of barrels of crude oil the United States imports each day.
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 1 million number of gallons of fresh water that can be contaminated from the used oil from one oil change.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 20 million number of people that celebrated the first Earth Day on Aril 22, 1970.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
 $2.3 billion amount President Obama awarded for clean energy manufacturing projects across the United States
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 509 approximate number of operational landfill gas (LFG) energy projects currently in the United States. LFG electricity generation projects provide the energy equivalent of powering more than 920,000 homes annually
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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