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Brownfields are big news in the green arena

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From: Business News New Jersey
Date: 19961113
Author:Lasseter, Diana G

Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote, "As long as skies are blue, and fields are green, Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow." In literature, verdant pastures have long symbolized vitality, just as fields of brown have represented decay. Perhaps it was a touch of the poet in the country's environmental specialists that prompted them in the past six years to begin referring to the weed-choked and often contaminated industrial properties wasting away in urban areas as brownfields. One thing is for sure, brownfields redevelopment is the hottest topic these days in the environmental ...

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