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NEWS
Building Resilience Workshop II Participants Invited to Build a Rain Garden
Looking to make a positive contribution to the neighborhoods of New Orleans to complete your weekend at the Building Resilience Workshop II?
On March 20th, the Idea Village and GNOF Water Challenge team and the Building Resilience Workshop II are partnering with Global Green, FutureProof, Common Ground Relief and Bayou Rebirth to organize volunteers to help install a raingarden at the Global Green Holy Cross Project Visitor’s Center in the the Lower 9th Ward.
VIEW DETAILS AND REGISTER @ http://noew.org/calendar/event/394/
Plan for emergency operations center at Bywater military site is approved
"...Disaster management and recovery has become an industry that will spur economic growth in our region, and this project presents an opportunity to center that industry in New Orleans . The site is expected to create 1,600 construction jobs and nearly 1,000 permanent jobs in the future.”
READ MORE @ http://www.nola.com/military/index.ssf/2011/02/plans_for_emergency_operations.html
Competition encourages entrepreneurs to develop water-related businesses
"Water is an element New Orleans has no shortage of, but businesses designed to manage it are in short supply in the region. Hoping to change that, a local business group and philanthropic outfit have created a challenge to entice entrepreneurs to create or grow companies that would manage the city's water supply..."
READ MORE @ http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2011/01/competition_encourages_entrepr.html
LINKS
- http://blogs.edf.org/restorationandresilience EDF Blog on Restoration and Resilience
- www.floodresiliencegroup.org A unique Site looking at flood issues
- http://lacoastpost.com/blog/ Len Bahr's Coastal Blog
- http://www.cep.ees.ufl.edu/ University of Florida's Center for Environmental Policy
There is a better way!
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