Illinois

The report summarizes the social and environmental impacts of Farmland LP’s investment management practices. Farmland LP buys and converts conventionally farmed land to certified organic farmland using regenerative farm management methods, to generate competitive financial returns and achieve positive environmental and social impacts. The USDA funded this study for the partners to generate a new, […]

The Chicago MSA PCAP establishes a regional framework to reduce emissions across transportation, buildings, energy, and waste sectors. It includes near-term, implementation-ready projects and emphasizes public health, equity, and long-term regional coordination.

Delta Institute’s Roadmap (available for download and use) is filled with practical tools and processes for communities to plan for the redevelopment of coal plant sites. These recommendations and tools are based on lessons learned from our work in Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and other communities with closing or closed coal plants.

A structured scoring framework to prioritize brownfield redevelopment by evaluating ownership, site use, land traits, community context, incentives, infrastructure, environmental risk, and building characteristics.

This project started in Cleveland in 2023 with the launch of the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Trees Initiative. The Trees Initiative aims to plant 250 million trees across the Great Lakes region by 2033. Maximizing the health benefits of trees and planting trees in neighborhoods that need more tree canopy is a major focus of […]

Data platform tracking clean economy investments and projects; provides state fact sheets.

Public research university with research and resources related to climate justice and community assets in Chicago.

An Illinois conservation coalition that supports protected lands mapping and conservation tools used for land planning and stewardship.

Municipal government implementing large-scale building decarbonization and climate equity policy.

Public research university in Illinois with campus and research resources on clean energy systems, including geothermal energy projects.