Tag Archives: new orleans
Corps of Engineers’ review of Levees.org’s nomination of levee breaches to historic register is complete
UPDATE: Ms. Pam Breaux, the Louisiana Historic Preservation Officer has conferred with Levees.org on the next steps for our nomination. Ms. Breaux will release a statement later today. Levees.org will speak to the press after Ms. Breaux’s statement is made public. Update – April 10, 2012 14:51 CST ——– In February 2012, the Corps of […]
Levees.org’s Oregon Chapter Director studied historic New Orleans neighborhood revival in dissertation
We are pleased to share that Levees.org’s Oregon Chapter Director Leslie March has recently earned her MBA in Sustainable Business from Marylhurst University. Her dissertation focused on the Holy Cross and Lower Ninth Ward Sustainable Restoration Plan after five years. The interesting report details how after the hurricane protection levees in New Orleans failed destroying […]
Why can’t they all be like Gambit Weekly?
Two years ago, at the annual Green School Edible Garden celebration in the Broadmoor neighborhood of New Orleans, Clancy Dubos made me a promise. He told he would issue a style alert to all writers for Gambit Weekly decreeing that from now on, the flooding during Hurricane Katrina shall be called the “federal flood.” That […]
