New Orleans Home To Largest Solar Neighborhood In SE

River Garden Apartments, New Orleans

New Orleans' River Garden Apartments feature 420 KWs of roof-mounted solar over multiple buildings, and is the Southeastern U.S.'s largest solar neighborhood. Read more →

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Judge to FEMA Trailer Manufacturers: Pay Up

New Orleans

A federal judge has awarded $42.6 mil. to plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit alleging unsafe levels of formaldehyde in trailers used in the wake of Katrina. Read more →

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A $200,000 Green Home Designed By Frank Gehry?

Gehry house, Make It Right

A New Orleans home designed by Frank Gehry and constructed by Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation counts a rooftop solar canopy among its many eco-features. Read more →

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Solar Rooftops A Booming Market In Louisiana

Green Grants, New Orleans solar

Talesun Solar recently delivered 3,000 residential solar power T-KITs to Green Grants, a company that finances green upgrades for Louisiana homeowners. Read more →

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Wendell Pierce Talks Rebuilding New Orleans Green [VIDEO]

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Future360 travels to New Orleans, Louisiana to meet actor and star of Treme, Wendell Pierce. Pierce is on a mission to rebuild Pontchartrain Park using renewable energy and clean technology. Read more →

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Solar In Reach For More In New Orleans

low-income home solar, New Orleans

A $1 million loan from Adam Capital to Sustainable Environmental Enterprises figures to finance solar rooftop systems for at least 85 low-income homes in New Orleans. Read more →

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New Orleans Launches Home Efficiency Program

New Orleans Home

NOLA Wise, a new program funded through the Recovery Act via the DOE, will offer New Orleans homeowners energy efficient tools, audits, and low-interest loans. Read more →

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New Orleans Passive House Idea Wins Honors

Passive House NoLa

Sustainable.TO has taken top dog in DesignByMany's Passive House for New Orleans competition for reimagining the traditional shotgun style super efficient. Read more →

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LEED Gold Goes To Tulane URBANbuild Home

Tulane LEED Home

A new home designed and built by students and professors from the Tulane Schoole of Architecture in New Orleans has been certified green. Read more →

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Post Katrina Lower 9th Ward Homes Go Green

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The Make It Right Foundation--created by actor Brad Pitt, after visiting New Orleans, post-Katrina--is dedicated to the green re-building of the Lower 9th Ward. Read more →

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