Santasieri's Roadmap to Environmental Justice and Community Engagement
Colette Santasieri, Executive Director of the Center for Community Systems and her team have designed and conducted several webinars in recent weeks.
Coming up November 24th is the third in a three part series on cleaning up brownfields, you can register to join here. Entitled, It Takes a Village - The Importance of Partners, Stakeholders, and Community Engagement, this webinar is for professionals, students and others who are interested in transforming former industrial and commercial properties into needed community land uses.
The first in this series entitled Brownfields Basics and the second entitled Show Me the Money – Brownfields Funding can be viewed here.
The first is an overview of what brownfields are and how they can be transformed into community assets, the second provides an overview of funding sources that can be applied for and utilized to clean up brownfield sites.
If you are interested in redevelopment and land use, whether brownfield clean up or adaptive reuses of iconic buildings, these recordings will show you how it is done, and the kinds of activities that are involved in redevelopment and brownfield clean up initiatives.
Transforming Brownfields: A Path Towards Environmental and Social Justice
Santasieri also designed and conducted Transforming Brownfields: A Path Towards Environmental and Social Justice, a virtual roundtable discussion focused on how communities have long suffered the negative impacts of contaminated, industrial and commercial properties, and how transformation of those properties can create opportunities for social equity and environmental justice. The recording of that webinar can be found here.
Roadmap to Mill Redevelopment
A 4-part webinar series focused on the redevelopment of New England’s iconic mills. This series featured many, repurposed New England mills, as experts delved into the trials and triumphs of mill redevelopment. The webinar topics included: New England Mills: Then and Now, Challenges and Solutions, The Funding Stack, and Adapting to Change. Recordings of the webinars can be found here.
