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This is a big day. We are so pleased to announce that we have launched a search for a Kansas City Area Coordinator. As our very first part time program staff person, the KCAC will coordinate our growing service learning programming in Kansas City and help us continue to build our organization. For a full description [...]

Join us at the Benton Community Garden June 2!

Join our board! Be a part of Historic Green’s exciting growth…

Just confirmed the details that the Green Impact Zone event is back on! Come join us as we get elbows-deep into making old windows perform like new!! Register here.

Nationally respected trainers like Bill Robinson, pictured here in his characteristic weird headgear, teach our volunteers how to integrate sustainable building practices into historic home restorations

Monday March 12, 2012 – Friday March 23, 2012 Douglas & Andry Map and Directions | Register Description: Event Pricing Daily Registration $20 Register for 5 or more days , + free T-shirt, Crawfish Boil and Carbon Offset Carbon Offset $5 Tee Shirt $15 Crawfish Boil $15 Historic Green members save 25% on daily registration [...]

09 Nov 2011 5:46 PM | Anonymous   We are thrilled to be working on a new website for Historic Green. The new site is being designed by Joel Schlotterer of Guerilla Design Services in Kansas City. It will be a much more dynamic site, with more interactivity and a fantastic new look. Stay tuned!

After Hurricane Katrina forced her from her home of 15 years, 83-year-old New Orleans native Shirley Charlot suffered through the nightmare shared by so many others in New Orleans… Upon returning to the Holy Cross neighborhood more than six months later, Charlot discovered her home had been wrecked by wind and water.

Today was an exciting day for the Historic Green staff as we were busy preparing our new office space at the Metropolitan Energy Center’s Project Living Proof House in Kansas City.

01 Apr 2011 3:46 PM | Heather Stafford Gay (Administrator) From the moment I got to the airport on Saturday, I began to reflect on my experiences of this trip. Now is the time for thinking about what we did well, what we didn’t do so well, and what I loved about the past few weeks. Some of [...]

03 Mar 2011 2:33 PM | Brennan Crawford (Administrator)     I got a call this morning from one of our amazingly committed volunteer committee members concerning whether we should accept a donation  of plates, napkins, and plasticware  from a local major paper product company. The dilemma is that we made a commitment this year to really paying [...]

18 Feb 2011 1:54 PM | Jennifer Gunby You keep hearing about Rain Gardens from Historic Green, maybe you’ve even helped to construct one during a Spring Greening event.  And you’ve always wondered how to make one for yourself.      Well here you go – the abridged instructions on How to Build a Rain Garden.    Your [...]

    03 Feb 2011 9:14 AM | Heather Stafford Gay (Administrator) This blog begins a new chapter for us with Historic Green.  Once a week, a different board member will post to the blog.  We will rotate through our board members, so everyone gets a chance to share their stories. I’ve been involved with Historic Green almost [...]

We made the front page! The Chronicle of Philanthropy, the bi-weekly “Newspaper of the Nonprofit World” based inD.C., just featured Holy Cross, Historic Green and the Lower Nine in their recent issue. Read full article here.

By Walter Gallas on March 20th, 2008 For most of this month Historic Green is in town, an ambitious initiative which is combining the values of the historic preservation movement with those of the green building/sustainability movement. Last Saturday, Emily Wadhams, our Vice President of Public Policy, spoke about the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s [...]

Dwell, one of the nation’s top architecture magazines, stopped by this week to learn more about   Historic Green and its work in Holy Cross and the Lower Ninth Ward. In his “New Orleans Report: Greening the Ninth Ward”, Michael Cannell, editorial director of dwell.com, writes: “I had never intended to view the devastation of [...]

New Orleans is going green as it never has before, and it isn’t just because of St. Patrick’s Day. We have Global Green, Historic Green, the National Association of Home Builders Model Green and Brad Pitt’s Make It Right, just to name a few ecologically attuned building programs.