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 Join us May 27th to learn about planning for blight and how to change our built environment paradigm
The Catalyst Communities Initiative is a comprehensive program to provide education, training, planning, and technical resources to local governments as they work toward their sustainability goals. This initiative offers an array of resources on various environmental, social, and economic topics to help communities across Michigan make a just transition to decarbonization and meet our MI Healthy Climate Plan goals. The initiative aims to provide a range of resource options to meet communities wherever they are, regardless of geography, population size, or pre-existing knowledge. The Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE), Catalyst Communities Initiative is hosting this webinar series free to communities.
Webinar recordings are posted online for future viewing on the Catalyst Communities Webinars Webpage and anyone who registers will:
- get notification when the recording is available,
- receive a copy of the presentation handout, and
- get resource and contact links for taking a deeper dive into each webinar topic.
Upcoming Catalyst Community Webinar
Join us for this webinar to hear from Rex LaMore, Director of Michigan State University’s Center for Community Economic Development, to learn about the social and fiscal impacts of our current linear built environment paradigm and how communities can benefit by shifting to a circular built environment paradigm. In this session, attendees will hear how government agencies are reusing and repurposing construction materials, diverting them from landfills as they work to remove blight and abandoned buildings, often from environmentally contaminated properties.
This session provides valuable information for community leaders; state, federal, and local alike, including local commissioners, trustees, planners, land bank officials, and their environmental consultants.
Attendees will gain insightful strategies for better managing structural materials at their end of life so they can shift the cost burden of removing abandoned, blighted structures away from the general public by capturing value from the materials removed.
Register now and check out our EGLE deconstruction video below.
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An Alternative to Waste - A Deconstruction Story, 3:37
Deconstruction is a form of recycling where construction and building materials are disassembled from old buildings that would have otherwise been strictly demolished. The material that are salvaged during deconstruction can be reused or recycled for other purposes. |
Registration Questions:
Alana Berthold: [email protected]
Joel Roseberry: [email protected]
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