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Green ReBuilding of New Orleans Conference
The Green ReBuilding of New Orleans conference brings the principals behind the city's green movement under one roof
Darryl Malek-Wiley is a 20-year veteran of environmental justice in
the Southeast.
By Alex Woodward |
October 26, 2009
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New Orleans Solar Schools Initiative
The New Orleans Solar School Initiative unveils its first foray into alt-energy education
Frank Coco, environmental science teacher at Warren Easton Senior
High School, will receive a new curriculum — courtesy of Entergy
Corporation.
By Alex Woodward |
September 28, 2009
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Lumberjacked: Art from recycled Wood
Trashed wood gets new life at the hands of a New Orleans artist
A pair of bottlecap eyes stares up from Lance Vargas' sawhorse in
his backyard.
By Alex Woodward |
August 17, 2009
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Salvation Army
At Worn Again, Recycle For the Arts' annual fundraiser, old clothes are reincarnated as haute couture.
Every component of this event has a journey," Elizabeth Underwood
says about Worn Again Nola3, and she isn't joking. Roughly a month
before the sustainable-minded fashion show and Recycle For the Arts'
(R4A) third-annual fundraiser, the R4A program director is on the
second floor of the Green Project's Marais Street headquarters, helping
Worn Again co-founder Garyt Shiflett piece together six reclaimed
lightboxes into what will become the show's modular stage.
By Noah Bonaparte Pais |
June 29, 2009
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Shifting Gears
Global-E revs up an alternative auto empire
This is the future.
By Alex Woodward |
May 26, 2009
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A Blue—Ribbon Green House
Two LSU architecture students win a local design competition with a sustainable home plan for Lakeview
The Lakeview House," David Lachin and Thomas Colosino's winning
entry in the Billes Architecture Home Design Competition, starts not
with a fancy rendering or an elaborate schematic, but a simple picture
of a freight-shipping container.
By Noah Bonaparte Pais |
April 20, 2009
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New Orleans Biking 411
Plan B is a community bike shop where cyclists can learn to
repair and build their own bikes and get access to bike repair tools
and parts. 511 Marigny St., 944-0366; www.bikeproject.org
March 30, 2009
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Biking in New Orleans: Sprocket Science
Biking around town has its ups, downs — and potholes.
Blues musician Kenny Holladay puts heavy music equipment on his
one-speed cruiser and pedals from Bywater to gigs at Checkpoint Charlie
and elsewhere.
By Ian McNulty |
March 30, 2009
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Taking Root: the Teaching Responsible Earth Education program
AN ECO-MINDED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INTRODUCES INNER-CITY NEW ORLEANS KIDS TO THE NATURAL WORLD.
Andrew H. Wilson Elementary fourh-graders fidget in their seats in a
log cabin auditorium with floor-to-ceiling bay windows that face a
stretch of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve —
woods and more woods.
By Alex Woodward |
March 18, 2009
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