This week on GreenSense Radio, we’re talking about Brownfield Redevelopment. Hundreds of thousands of brownfields - environmentally impaired properties - dot the urban landscape. Like perspiration stains from our industrial past, you can see these properties sitting vacant, abandoned, or underutilized because people are afraid of the unknown cost of environmental cleanup and liability. Many of these sites also have buildings that are functionally obsolete, and are in bad locations with little economic or market value.

Brownfields left idle create social, environmental, and economic decay. An entire industry has formed to put these properties back into productive use, recycling land and infrastructure, making it one of the more tangible forms of sustainable development - creating jobs, improving the local property tax rolls, and cleaning up polluted sites.

Join Robert Colangelo as he interviews guests from the USEPA Brownfield Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana as they offer their perspective on what it takes to clean up and green-up these sites. Meet entrepreneurial developers who are taking the risk to buy these sites, policy makers and staff from local governments who are making sure that these sites are cleaned to protect human health and the environment, and technical experts who are helping buyers and sellers make transactions. Hear how a contracting real estate market affects brownfield redevelopment, why more government funding isn’t invested into brownfields, how you turn a brownfield site green, and much more.