4 Years After Katrina: Building green in New Orleans
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Four years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans residents are still struggling to rebuild. According to the Sierra Club report, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina provided New Orleans with a unique opportunity to develop into a national "green rebuilding model."
As the report details, green building is "the planning, design and construction of sustainable or low impact buildings and a key element in sustainable redevelopment. Green building also has a strong focus on maintaining social fabrics and provides job opportunities."
"[T]here are great potentials in using New Orleans as a model for truly sustainable redevelopment -- socially, economically and environmentally," the report reads, offering the first assessment of the green movement in the recovering city -- the major players, agencies and projects currently under way.
To see their findings click here.
(Image: Completed first home of the Holy Cross Project. Source: Global Green USA)