A detailed overview of the current challenges faced by the recycling industry, plus good news for green-minded New Orleans residents.
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Cool Pools Made From Reused Materials
The designers of these cool pools reused shipping containers and dumpsters for unique take on the above ground swimming pool.
DIY Plarn Mats For The Homeless: A Great Use For Plastic Shopping Bags
Wayne Abadie of Luling, Louisiana, discovered a way to create a little comfort for homeless people: plarn sleeping mats made from used plastic shopping bags
Mardi Gras in New Orleans: Keeping the Commons Common
By Beverly Bell March 4, 2014 Today, as on every Mardi Gras Day, New Orleans is in the midst of full-on mayhem. Depending on when on Fat Tuesday you are [ … ]
Urban Farming as Leadership Development: Grow Dat Youth Farm [Video]
As we’ve noted numerous times before, gardening creates benefits well beyond fresh, hyperlocal food. It can provide fruits and vegetables to neighborhoods with limited access to them. It can offer [ … ]
Super Bowl Fans βGeauxβ Green While Giving Back to New Orleans and the Environment
Football fans across the country are teaming up with the New Orleans Super Bowl Host Committee in the βGeaux Greenβ challenge to make Super Bowl XLVII and its festivities as sustainable as possible.
Raging Storms and Rising Seas Swelling the Ranks of Climate Refugees
By Lester R. Brown In late August 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approached the U.S. Gulf Coast, more than 1 million people were evacuated from New Orleans and the small towns [ … ]
Earth Policy Institute: Rising Seas and Powerful Storms Threaten Global Security
By Janet Larsen http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2008/Update76.htm Standing before the United Nations General Assembly in October 1987, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Maldives, made an appeal representing βan endangered nation.β That year [ … ]