The expression “one man’s garbage is another man’s treasure” is an appropriate one to summarize this issue’s focus on Renewable Resource and Energy trends, as well as to exhibit how the perceived value of an abandoned property significantly differs depending on the eye of the beholder.

Take the city of Greensboro, N.C. Business and residential groups in this city, located in the north-central part of the Tar Heel State, needed to be thoroughly convinced about the upside of a proposed 12-acre brownfield development downtown. The reason for the uncertainty, said Dyan Arkin, a community planner and development coordinator in Greensboro, was that a lot of people didn’t “understand how you could take what you call a brownfield and turn it into something useful.” ...

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