In this issue of Community Investments, we highlight efforts that demonstrate a growing commitment by the community development field to taking environmental concerns into account. The articles in this issue illustrate how developers, investors, and grassroots organizations are finding creative and effective ways to bundle environmentally responsible outcomes with community development ends.
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Table of Contents
CI Notebook
Introduction by Naomi Cytron
It’s Getting Easier to be Green: Cultivating the Intersections between Community Development
and Environmental Sustainability
Naomi Cytron
Industrial Decline and the Opportunities and Challenges of Brownfield Redevelopment
Michael R. Greenberg, Henry Mayer, Karen Lowrie and Judith Shaw
Case Study: Transforming a Brownfield in Baltimore
Greg Lewis
Re-Building It Green
Jennifer Somers
Environmental Justice
Vivian Pacheco
Triple-Bottom Line Investing: Balancing Financial, Social and Environmental Returns
Jed Emerson, Tim Freundlich, and Shari Berenbach