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As another year comes to an end, the Center for Creative Land Recycling took pause to reflect on how our team, partners, and the communities we serve are advancing community needs through brownfield reuse. From climate change resiliency to affordable housing: former brownfields are the foundation for the change we need to create the just, […]
Join CCLR September 17-19 in Carson, CA for the 5th California Land Recycling Conference (CALRC) and connect with a diversity of practitioners dedicated to sustainable land reuse. Our 2024 theme, From the Ground Up, reflects the hope inherent in brownfiel...
Land reuse and community revitalization takes time, money, and resources, but you don’t have to navigate the process alone. Historic investment in environmental justice and climate resilience is supporting more technical assistance (TA) providers than e...
A lack of affordable housing is a nationwide challenge, but the problem is especially acute in California. In the Golden State, 77% of California’s Extremely Low-Income Renter Households have a Severe Cost Burden according to the National Low Income Hou...
April is a beautiful time in Arizona that, to me, is characterized by the yellow of the palo verde and brittlebush wildflowers. Now the month will also be characterized by brown, as in brownfields. Between April 23 and 25, CCLR logged more than 500 miles ...
You might be familiar with mushrooms on a tree stump or your pizza, but did you know mushrooms can be used for pollution cleanup? As nature’s decomposers, this is the job fungi were made for! CCLR is dedicated to pursuing creative solutions to land revi...
Useful data is the key ingredient in a successful brownfield project and many steps in the reuse cycle will be out of reach until such details are developed. From basic facts about a property’s size and terrain, to more advanced intel on contaminants an...
