News
Select a Category
Featured Article
Cover photo: baskets woven from California-native Tule Rush by the Yurok Tribe November is an important time to recognize and honor the cultures, contributions, and histories of Indigenous peoples across the United States. Native American Heritage Month invites reflection on the deep relationships between Indigenous communities and the land they have stewarded for thousands of […]
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...
A Targeted Brownfield Assessment (TBA) is often the best first step a community can take in redeveloping a brownfield — any property where reuse might be complicated by environmental contamination. CCLR sat down with EPA Region 9 to learn more about thi...
Karen Homolac started her career in government serving an unlikely population — unprocessed salmon and herring. Now, after decades in the service of the public, Homolac has retired from her 21 year tenure at Business Oregon, Oregon State’s economic de...
