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The Center for Creative Land Recycling is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting sustainable, community-led and responsible reuse of underutilized and environmentally-impacted properties known as brownfields. In 2025, the CCLR team educated, advocated, assisted and convened stakeholders with the end goal of revitalizing neighborhoods through land recycling. We also reviewed grants that secured more […]
Brownfield sites—vacant or underutilized properties with potential contamination—often conjure images of blight and decay. While the journey from a polluted plot of land to a vibrant, productive space is a monumental undertaking, the story of this tra...
By Tansy Massey-Green and Matthew Popkin from RMI The US boasts over 624 active brightfields – clean energy projects on brownfields and closed landfills. Most people would assume that these projects are predominantly built in sunny and windy states like...
Many who work in niche fields like brownfield reuse will tell you the work can be lonely. “Brownfield practitioners can be very isolated in their job, sometimes you are the only one doing what you do at your organization,” says CCLR Senior Planning Co...
Senior Brownfield Revitalization Consultant Joy Britt & Senior Program Associate Lujain Altawarah recall their week at the Guam Conference on Island Sustainability We are still buzzing with gratitude and excitement from a truly unforgettable week atte...
What would you do with 2 acres of land long abandoned and now home to six shipping containers and one lonely storage tank? Can you see a future for a vacant lot where a chemicals company manufactured pesticides for 15 years? This is the challenge CCLR and...
CCLR assisted 91% of the EPA Brownfields Grant selectees in Regions 9 and 10, securing $30.9 million in funding The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the selectees of its latest Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup (A...
