Posts In 3/2009
The battle over affordable housing hits Esplanade Avenue.
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This time next year, New Orleans lunch ladies could be serving up sides of social justice in the school cafeteria.
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Act now and keep granny’s love affair with Lee Zurik alive
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While the job of sanitation director is a full-time, demanding position, somehow Ms. White has found the time to pen a new book.
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A presentation Wednesday by Urban Institute housing expert Margery Austin Turner shed light on the challenges New Orleans faces as it struggles to solve its affordable housing woes.
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Today marks two milestones for post-Katrina New Orleans — a first demolition of one of the thousands of properties purchased by the state from Road Home applicants, and the reopening of a historic skyscraper. The two projects have a lot to learn from each other.
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A reader forwarded us a YouTube clip of Beacon of Hope founder Denise Thornton speaking on the recovery and rebuilding of the city. If you haven’t listened, it’s worth your time.
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A story in this week’s Gambit tells the city about Teaching Responsible Earth Education, a program we at the Institute heard about at our New Orleans Speaks event in October.
According to the Gambit, more than 12,000 public and private school students, parents and teachers in the New Orleans area have hit the trail with the nonprofit outdoor education program. The hands-on approach to environmental education is based on program models provided by the Institute for Earth Education, a Greenville, W. Va.-based network of environmental educators, with international hubs in Italy, Germany, Japan, Australia, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.…
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Communities around the country are arming themselves against recession by printing their own money. Are Big Easy Bucks in our future?
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Creating private contractor jobs by tearing down the city’s condemned buildings could result in a perfect fit for President Barack Obama’s priorities in economic stimulus funding.
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The fact that the red “No Loitering” sign was left on the exterior of 5028 St. Claude Avenue while Banksy’s art was whited out made for sad testimony on the safety fears that dominate public life in the Lower Ninth Ward. Whoever affixed this small abstract painting on the white space directly below No Loitering, however, remedied things. At least until the building is torn down
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Pam Dashiell, co-director of the Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Development (CSED) and board chair of the Holy Cross Neighborhood Association, speaks to the New Orleans Institute about a painting hanging on the wall of her tiny, overstuffed Holy Cross office and what it means for the future of St. Claude Avenue in the Lower Ninth Ward.
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“David and Sara Gottfried are just finishing a “deep-green” renovation of a 1915 Craftsman bungalow located in Oakland, California”
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Could your church parking lot be sending the wrong message to visitors? Does your ministry outreach shout “Everyone’s welcome!” while your parking lot screams, “Go away?”
a passage from Ministry Marketing Coach
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Yesterday at the Neighborhood Conservation District a slew of properties put forth by the LLT were deferred for 30 days.
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