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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.

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.