'The Green Project': New Orleans Salvaging Building Materials
by Kathreen Ricketson, Canberra, Australia on 03. 4.07
Image: Chris Branan, Tubs, The Green Project, New Orleans, Louisiana 2005
Rebuilding New Orleans in a economical and environmentally sustainable way has been discussed on TreeHugger before, here, here, here and here.
The Green Project is a sustainable local New Orleans initiative that salvages building materials and sells it on cheaply to those who are rebuilding their homes. By deconstructing by hand rather than demolishing buildings, they are able to conserve valuable resources and keep recovered materials out of landfills. The salvaged materials are then recycled into new building materials, many of which are irreplaceable such as architectural elements, hardware, and old growth lumber, these are then used to repair and rebuild damaged homes.
Right now The Green Project is looking for volunteers to help sort, organize, mix, and process paint for their upcoming paint drive on March 24th. Check out craigslist for the full details.
Image: from the Washington Post
The Green Project runs Recycle for the Arts (R4A), a storefront supplying low-cost art supplies to the community, including schools, galleries and non-profit groups. Their mission is to promote creative recycling and reuse in the community, support the arts, and educate the public through events and workshops based on creating art from reused materials.
To get involved you could:
1. volunteer your time
2. donate art supplies or recycle your rubbish
3. donate equipment or money
4. involve yourself in events such as green gardening workshops.
5. find and support a similar organisation in your area.
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Sadly, a better plan for New Orleans residents would be to find a new city. Just a 1m rise in sea-levels will be enough to destroy any re-building efforts.
Flood map of New Orleans with 1m rise
http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=29.6403,-89.8901&z=9&m=1
Great stuff. That's not the only creative recycling, or ReUse that citizens can do. Even the dead can rise again, as this TV newscast said.
Check out this TV station's ad in the Vancouver Sun, Here's the link:
http://tv-news-revived-batteries.blogspot.com/
What do you think of this?
hello,
my comments are to the government officials in the greater New orleans area.What needs to happen is to get the "Dutch goverment involved in levees and city protection they have the knowledge and expierience to prevent the devastaion from reoccuring and it will reoccur so use your heads and do it right the first time
this is cool!!!! i rock
I think all we do is important. Most of our coastal cities in the US are at sea level. We are protecting them and why should we not do the same for New Orleans. Lets be encourage and help save New Orleans. If your home is worth saving, so is New Orleans.