I was lucky enough to attend a trade show in New Orleans several years ago that coincided with Mardi Gras. I know all sorts of imagery come to mind. It was my first time in The Crescent City and I felt right at home. Like all of us, when Hurricane Katrina hit I sat glued to my television crying over the enormous loss. Since then we've received several emails from residents of New Orleans asking if we'd be interested in purchasing salvage from homes ravaged by Katrina. It breaks my heart because New Orleans has such a unique architecture. And while I understand the need for immediate financial support I firmly believe that local preservation of this architecture is the long term answer to financial stability of the city through tourism.
The Green Project is an organization that goes above and beyond the call for preservation and being green.
The Green Project operates a WAREHOUSE STORE that resells high-quality, salvaged building materials at low cost to the community. They feel strongly that the materials from New Orleans stay in the city and they won't knowingly send materials to buyers out of the area. The store is dedicated to helping the environment by reducing the amount of usable materials placed in landfills or disposed of improperly. They also SALVAGES AND DECONSTRUCT damaged or collapsed buildings by hand, in a way that saves between 45 and 70 percent of the materials. This preserves New Orleans' unique architectural history and benefits New Orleans' residents by returning their ruined building materials to use elsewhere in the city. These services alone make my heart happy but this group takes even further steps to protect their environment. The Green Project store also serves as a local RECYCLED PAINT resource by reclaiming, combining, and reselling surplus paint. This keeps paint out of the region's landfills and water system while providing affordable paint to the community. They also serve as a RECYCLING center. They currently recycle cardboard, newspaper, regular paper (plain and colored), aluminum cans and household e-waste (electronic equipment like computers, stereos, printers, monitors, cell phones, etc). They don't accept plastic or glass at this time because no one in the city can pick it up. And scrap metal has to be disposed of at the scrap metal yard, not The Green Project. But that's not all!
Our GARDEN is blooming. The Green Project provides gardening workshops where residents can learn how to make the most of a small space, recycle yard and kitchen waste into compost and improve the soil. RECYCLE FOR THE ARTS merged with The Green Project in 2003. R4A provides art materials to individual artists, schools, art programs, galleries, and other non-profit groups at minimal cost, as well as offers monthly recycled art workshops. THE GREEN ROOM is an interactive community space that promotes using garbage and salvage as artistic material. The space is used to display the work of local artists and is available for workshops and community events.
The Green Project is also involved in GREEN BUILDING & SPECIAL PROJECTS like our solar panels, biodiesel and community outreach. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, The Green Project had the largest array of operable photovoltaic solar panels in Southeast Louisiana. The photovoltaic solar panels were damaged in the storm and are FINALLY back up on their roof. They work with NOBI (the New Orleans Bio-Fuel Initiative) and the Alliance for Affordable Energy to create a recycled vegetable oil mixture as fuel for their diesel vehicles.
Truly a well-rounded organization doing their part to save our environment! Kudos to The Green Project! To find out more contact The Green Project at info@thegreenproject.org or visit them on the web at http://www.thegreenproject.org/
The Green Project is an organization that goes above and beyond the call for preservation and being green.
The Green Project operates a WAREHOUSE STORE that resells high-quality, salvaged building materials at low cost to the community. They feel strongly that the materials from New Orleans stay in the city and they won't knowingly send materials to buyers out of the area. The store is dedicated to helping the environment by reducing the amount of usable materials placed in landfills or disposed of improperly. They also SALVAGES AND DECONSTRUCT damaged or collapsed buildings by hand, in a way that saves between 45 and 70 percent of the materials. This preserves New Orleans' unique architectural history and benefits New Orleans' residents by returning their ruined building materials to use elsewhere in the city. These services alone make my heart happy but this group takes even further steps to protect their environment. The Green Project store also serves as a local RECYCLED PAINT resource by reclaiming, combining, and reselling surplus paint. This keeps paint out of the region's landfills and water system while providing affordable paint to the community. They also serve as a RECYCLING center. They currently recycle cardboard, newspaper, regular paper (plain and colored), aluminum cans and household e-waste (electronic equipment like computers, stereos, printers, monitors, cell phones, etc). They don't accept plastic or glass at this time because no one in the city can pick it up. And scrap metal has to be disposed of at the scrap metal yard, not The Green Project. But that's not all!
Our GARDEN is blooming. The Green Project provides gardening workshops where residents can learn how to make the most of a small space, recycle yard and kitchen waste into compost and improve the soil. RECYCLE FOR THE ARTS merged with The Green Project in 2003. R4A provides art materials to individual artists, schools, art programs, galleries, and other non-profit groups at minimal cost, as well as offers monthly recycled art workshops. THE GREEN ROOM is an interactive community space that promotes using garbage and salvage as artistic material. The space is used to display the work of local artists and is available for workshops and community events.
The Green Project is also involved in GREEN BUILDING & SPECIAL PROJECTS like our solar panels, biodiesel and community outreach. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, The Green Project had the largest array of operable photovoltaic solar panels in Southeast Louisiana. The photovoltaic solar panels were damaged in the storm and are FINALLY back up on their roof. They work with NOBI (the New Orleans Bio-Fuel Initiative) and the Alliance for Affordable Energy to create a recycled vegetable oil mixture as fuel for their diesel vehicles.
Truly a well-rounded organization doing their part to save our environment! Kudos to The Green Project! To find out more contact The Green Project at info@thegreenproject.org or visit them on the web at http://www.thegreenproject.org/
Thanks, Tab
No comments:
Post a Comment