Address:
5130 Chartres St, New Orleans, LA 70117, USA
Audiences:
Families and Daily Living
Homeowners
Services:
sustainable development, volunteer coordination
Their initiatives include:
Restoration of Bayou Bienville: restored it will provide a significant level of protection to the community as well as educational opportunities and economic development
Carbon and climate neutral goals: support of this are supporting historic preservation efforts, which is one of the ‘greenest’ thing you can do. They provide access and information to programs and projects assisting neighbors and individuals
Provide access to volunteer services /coordinators who want to come down (for example the Historic Green Project): young architects, engineers, construction, technologists
Provide sustainable building materials and help people understand that the benefits of energy efficient and sustainable building
Landscape architecture initiative funded by the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation
How Safe? How Soon? which goes into nonstructural mitigation-rain gardens, storm water management and evacuation strategy
Advocacy projects around energy efficiency
Restoration of the wetlands
Closure of Mr. Go
Stopping the Industrial Canal project
Supporting efforts of Global Green and Make it Right through recruiting other sustainable development to the neighborhood
Making St. Claude avenue an energy efficient business corridor where alternative energy efficient technology entities can gather and rent space
With funding from the Greater New Orleans Foundation, create an implementation plan for the sustainable restoration of the Lower Ninth Ward