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National Brownfields Coalition
The National Brownfields Coalition is a non-partisan alliance that educates, advocates, and convenes stakeholders nationally to advance brownfields redevelopment.
NBC resource library
Explore our wide array of tools and insights designed to support brownfields cleanup, reuse, and equitable redevelopment. From our brownfields to brightfields map and factsheets on strategies to minimize displacement, to NBC webinars and projects from our partners at the Center for Creative Land Recycling, these resources can help you with responsibly cleaning up and utilizing brownfields to support the health, prosperity, and resilience of communities nationwide.
Brownfields to brightfields
Across the country, underused and contaminated sites are being transformed into brightfields—hubs for clean energy generation and community revitalization. Through our work with the National Brownfields Coalition, we’re exploring how redeveloping these sites for solar and renewable energy can do more than generate power—it can create jobs, strengthen local economies, and build a more equitable clean energy future. Our interactive map combines brownfield sites from EPA’s RE-Powering data with the metrics like infrastructure readiness and surrounding economic indicators.
Strategies to minimize displacement
Smart Growth America partnered with the EPA to write a host of factsheets to aid with anti-displacement measures for redeveloping brownfield communities.
These fact sheets are designed to provide the information needed for community leaders and members to pursue or replicate these tools and strategies within their communities as they work to prevent displacement and gentrification, especially in the context of brownfields redevelopment.
Tools from the Center for Creative Land Recycling
The Center for Creative Land Recycling is the United State’s oldest nonprofit dedicated to the beneficial reuse of underutilized and contaminated properties known as brownfields. They promote sustainable, community-led, and responsible reuse of underutilized and environmentally-impacted properties known as brownfields. Check out some of their resources on creative funding strategies for revitalization projects and useful data that can help drive equitable redevelopment efforts.
Data tools and platforms guide
Looking for the right data to support your work with grant-writing, policy development, and community planning? This pocket guide highlights the most useful tools and platforms for public health, climate resilience, sustainability, food security, and socioeconomic equity.
Creative funding strategies for parks development
Developing public parks and recreation facilities, including parks, open spaces, trails, community centers, and other recreational amenities, is both vital and financially challenging. To turn parks and recreation projects into reality, communities need a systematic process to identify and organize multiple funding sources into a comprehensive and creative funding strategy. This guide provides actionable steps to help communities access diverse funding sources without overburdening their limited resources.
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