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Rust 2 Green Utica

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From the R2G Utica website: "...launched in February 2010 when an initial representative group of community partners began meeting with the R2G NY Cornell Researchers; Paula Horrigan, Jamie Vanucchi and Deni Ruggeri." and "... since those first beginnings has been working in partnership with R2G NY to convene, direct and facilitate collaboration, dialogue and joint responsibility for community problem-solving in a variety of arenas including food systems, green infrastructure, waterfront planning, public space and streetscapes, downtown revitalization.

Also, Greening the Rust Belt "Greening the Rust Belt or shifting it from rust to green, requires collective invention, imagination and problem-solving. It requires a dramatic recasting of a narrative of loss to one of potential and promise. The narrative of promise- green- will be created from extant and potential resource pools. It will transform problems to opportunities and obstacles to assets." More at the Rust2Green website.

The Cornell-sponsored Rust2Green came to Utica. Here's a map offering an ecosystem of their Contacts & Project Areas.

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December 15, 2010 - Hamilton College's Levitt Center and the Community Foundation join in, per Levitt Center Receives Community Foundation Rust to Green Grant.

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May 15, 2011 - Paula Horrigan, a Cornell University professor and one of the overseers of the Rust to Green Utica project, said in Critics assail downtown Utica parking plan...

"...more surface parking is the opposite direction in which cities are going. She pointed out the Utica Master Plan still is in draft form, and called it a “shortsighted, inappropriate approach. I would like to know what the city is doing to encourage creative investors who want to take a risk on a city where there is not a lot of vitality,” she said. “I cannot believe parking is the main issue.”

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December 14, 2010 - Mary Lyons Bradley (Community Foundation), Paula Horrigan (Cornell University), Larry Bull (Community Foundation), Christina Willemsen (Hamilton College), Jan Squadrito (Community Foundation) & Rev. Bob Umidi (Community Foundation), Announcement of $53,200 Community Foundation grant to Rust 2 Green Utica for:Ecological Citizenship Curricula development (Cornell), Green Infrastructure Mapping Project (Cornell) and integration of refugees (Hamilton).

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