[CPEO-BIF] Arizona Healthfields Initiative

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

News Release
Cardno
March 17, 2015

Cardno Organizes Pioneering Arizona Healthfields Initiative
Unique collaboration of federal, state, city, and nonprofit  
organizations expected to lead the way for similar programs in the  
Western U.S.

TEMPE, Ariz., March 17, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via PRWEB -  
Professional infrastructure and environmental services consultancy  
Cardno has organized a unique collaboration of federal, state, city,  
and nonprofit organizations called the Arizona Healthfields  
Initiative, one of only a few similar efforts anywhere in the U.S and  
a first-of-its-kind program in Arizona. The stated goal of the  
initiative is the redevelopment of abandoned, underutilized, and  
contaminated properties, also known as "brownfields," for improvement  
of community health by establishing health clinics, community  
gardens, open and green spaces, farmers markets, and other projects  
that promote health, also known as "healthfields." The U.S.  
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) currently supports using  
brownfield funds to further healthfields programs such as this one.



This program will empower long suffering Arizona communities  
struggling daily with the adverse effects of slum and blight due to  
abandoned, underutilized, and contaminated properties and limited  
funds. These conditions, a legacy of undesirable and unsustainable  
land use, zoning, and development practices of the past, have  
severely damaged and impeded the economic vitality and quality of  
life in many cities and towns for up to half a century or more. The  
Arizona Healthfields Initiative will give citizens and local  
government the tools necessary to redevelop and transform their  
brownfields in ways that enhance community health by providing free  
technical expertise, access to government grants and low interest  
loans, and training to enhance local know-how and capabilities.


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For the entire release, see
http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2015/03/17/716064/10125251/en/ 
Cardno-Organizes-Pioneering-Arizona-Healthfields-Initiative.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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