Despite thumbs down from academic review board, levee breach sites may get historic designation

A professional academic board in Louisiana recently voted against placing the sites of two catastrophic levee breaches in New Orleans during Katrina on the National Register of Historic Places. Two-thirds of the 9-member board voted down the flood protection group Levees.org’s quest to list the breach of the 17th Street Canal and the east side [...]

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Flood symbol created by Levees.org web designer Stanford Rosenthal now a universal icon

A flood symbol created by Levees.org website designer Stanford Rosenthal is now a universal icon. Chosen for its clarity, the symbol was created through Iconathon, an initiative to collaboratively design new civic symbols for the public domain. The very first Iconathon took place in San Francisco and was focused on creating new public domain civic symbols [...]

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Sandy Rosenthal is guest of Hillary Clinton at U.S. Department of State

The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton and Mount Holyoke College President Lynn Pasquerella has invited Sandy Rosenthal founder of the flood protection advocacy group Levees.org to attend the launch of The Women in Public Service Project and Colloquium in Washington DC next month. The 4-hour colloquium will take place at the U.S. Department of State on [...]

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