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By Jamie Nesbitt
The bond between man and the environment has been a tenuous one, though
indigenous peoples around the world seem always to have had a greater respect
for the land that fed, clothed and housed them. While that relationship has
long since been diminished by any number of external forces, the land is still
vital, perhaps more now for economic reasons that utilitarian ones. Perhaps in
this century they are one in the same. For our country’s …
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Features
International Report
By Diana Bao
Environmental protection faced an unprecedented challenge in China last year, as this country of 1.3 billion people worked to balance
social economic development with its resource and environmental limitations. With international awareness a growing concern and …
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By Ken Kastman, P.E.
I was pleased to facilitate a panel session at the N BAs’ Big Deal conference this past October. The session explored the concept of national certification for
brownfield professionals, the subject of October BFN’s “View from …
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By Kelly Novak
Underused and idled properties, often referred to as surplus properties, make up
the bulk of America’s brownfield supply. These are often owned by small businesses and/or corporate
entities. (See Chris Olson’s article on rural surplus corporate …
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By Blair McDonald
It is no mystery why we place heavy industry next to our waterways; they provide
water for processing, cooling and transport. The demise of those industries has
left behind abandoned or defunct waterfront sites that are …
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Donald Trump is getting down in the dumps. The real estate mogul recently signed
on to take over the New Jersey Meadowlands Redevelopment project, pledging to
convert 785 acres of garbage dumps into a golf course …
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By John Tuccillo
As the presidential race heats up and the economy cools down, the motto of the
1992 Bill Clinton campaign seems increasingly relevant. Think about it: we started this election cycle thinking
that Iraq and terrorism would be the …
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By John Spizzirri
On Jan. 28, President George W. Bush gave his seventh and final State of the
Union address to the American people and the joint Houses of Congress. During
the hour long speech, he spent a good …
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By Anthony J. Maggio, Pamela Galera
The City of Orange, Calif., is turning a contaminated brownfield into a recreational campus and park on a
26-acre site that formerly served as both a landfill and asphalt plant. This
task is being accomplished by …
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By Chris Olson
It’s early January and it’s cold in Chicago (if I find Al Gore, I’ll invite him here to experience it himself) as we kick off another new year of
the magazine. In early December, I attended …
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Regional Report
By Michael Sylvester
Redeveloping brownfield sites is often touted as a way to restore former
industrial lands into new business and residential developments and effectively
clean up the surrounding environment. But a recent project in Butler, N.J.,
shows that …
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By Jamie Nesbitt
The long-held vision of motorcycle giants Bill Harley and Arthur Walter Davidson
is one step closer to reality now that the state is providing a $1.25 million
grant to remediate the future home of the Harley-Davidson …
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By Jamie Nesbitt
Ah, Sun Valley, Idaho: the snowcapped playground of Hollywood celebrities and
corporate titans, the winter retreat of choice for the nation’s wealthiest one percent and, if Carl Massaro has his way, the premier location
for affordable, …
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By Jamie Nesbitt
The future of the old Hoescht Celanese fiber plant in Greenville, S.C., isn’t looking so bright now that plans to purchase the 75-acre site have fallen
through. The plant had been the proposed site of Woodruff …
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By Albert Warson
“It was a scary business. No one else had done such a large brownfield
remediation [or as costly, at CDN$500 million] in Canada,” says Pierre St-Cyr, a Montreal urban planning consultant. He was referring to
Angus …
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View from the Field
By Alan Bressler
Sustainable: 1: capable of being sustained
2a: of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource
so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged <sustainable
techniques> <sustainable agriculture> b: of or relating
to a …
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Departments
Editor's Letter
By John Spizzirri
Take humans out of the equation and the Earth is a pretty sustainable place.
Despite a series of mass extinctions and ceaseless natural changes to its geography and …
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Women
By Jamie Nesbitt
Back in her undergrad days at Brown University, Christine Russell struggled to connect her passion for environmental science with her deepening interest in urban planning. Then she discovered brownfields.
“It was an …
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Renewal Magazine
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With the Washington budget showing no signs of a quick-and-easy resolution, federal brownfields programs are unlikely to get much of …
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Brownfields and crop development—for the express intent of producing foods—are concepts that have always been strange bedfellows. Mutually exclusive. An…
At this abandoned, blighted factory—consisting of 187,227 square feet in 21 different structures on 13.5 acres in the three…
PROJECT GOAL: To revitalize land that had been sitting idle for years by putting the property back into productive…
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Job Board Listings
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Environmental Project Manager (Toledo, Ohio)
SME, consultants in the Geosciences, Materials and the Environment, seeks an experienced Environmental Professional for its growing Toledo office. For 47 years, SME has provided cost-effective, pract…
Certified Residential Appraiser (Columbus, Ohio)
CJob Description:- The client, is seeking HUD approved, Certified Appraisers in the Ohio area. - Knowledge of ACI software is a plus.- $20 per month cell phone credit - Guaranteed bi-weekly pay checks…
Revit Drafter (Boston, Massachusetts)
Aerotek is currently seeking a Revit Technician.This is a contract through the end of February with strong possibility to extend/go perm. Qualifications:-5 years architectural office experience-3 year…
Structural Engineer (Saginaw, Michigan)
We are working with an Architecture Firm in Saginaw, MI, and they are looking for a structural engineer. A good candidate for the position is a licensed Engineer or an Engineer in Training with 3 year…
SAP SRM Consultant (Charlotte, North Carolina)
The position is open due to the lack of SAP SRM business process domain knowledge within their existing team and this person will fill be the subject matter expert for their SRM systems. A big part of…
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This Weeks Poll
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  Will the EPA Workforce Development and other similar environmental jobs programs signal the start of a revitalized U.S. job market?
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Industry Profiles
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Meredith Udoibok Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Assistant director of business and community division, Dept. of Employ
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Barbara Rauch Oklahoma Dept. of Environmental Quality (DEQ)
Environmental attorney, Office of General Counsel
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Alan McCammon British Columbia
Member, Management Team, Land Remediation (Contaminated sites), Ministry of Environment, British Columbia
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Whitepapers
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by Jody Kass, Laura Truettner, John Fleming, and Jeff Jones
The new report by New Partners for Community Revitalization (NPCR) shows how New York State is revitalizing neighborhoods plagued by multiple brownfield sites, while stimulating economic growth and creating local jobs.
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By Jody Kass, Laura Truettner, John Fleming, Jeff Jones
Brownfields redevelopment policy in New York is in transition as the area-wide approach emerges as an innovative tool for urban revitalization. |
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by Laura Truettner
In April, 2011, New York State awarded $6.5 million in new grants under its landmark Brownfield Opportunity Areas (BOA) program, bringing the total state investment in BOA to $34 million. |
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Press Releases
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| Brownfields Forum, BOA EXPO,
Award to Suffolk County Executive-Elect Steven Bellone |
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Industry Events
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Industry Experts
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Susan Boyle
Mt. Laurel
Senior Environmental Practice Leader, GEI Consultants
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