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Building Resiliency through Green Infrastructure: A Community Wealth Building Approach

How investments in the green infrastructure needed for climate resiliency can be leveraged to build community wealth with worker cooperatives and social enterprises.

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Author(s): Johanna Bozuwa
Organization: The Democracy Collaborative
Date: 12/15/2022
Resource Type: Publication
Topic: Sustainable Buildings

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