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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 […]
I’ve heard that some cleanups of landfills and other toxic sites just put a cap over the contamination! Is this safe? Shouldn’t all the hazardous waste be removed instead? In almost all cases, properly designed and monitored caps on landfills can allo...
How does the LEED certification rating system currently consider brownfield and infill redevelopment in its scoring criteria? – Donna D., project manager The US Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) cert...
You can find a list of available brownfield sites for redevelopment, but it’s actually much more complicated and nuanced than it appears....
