New Orleans looks at people-powered 'pedicabs' New Orleans Solar Power: an electrifying home project ~P. Augustine Stelly~Consider Collins Foots Sr., who lives in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward, a neighborhood on the rise five years after Hurricane Katrina's flood waters receded. Foots' 1,200-square-foot home generates an electric bill of a frugal $38 per month, thanks largely to its PV system. "I'm saving about $150 a month on my electric bill and I'm practically getting free energy from the sun," he says. True, Foots had help. His home was built by Make It Right, the foundation funded by Brad Pitt to aid in the rebuilding of New Orleans. If you're footing the bill yourself, you'll want to do extensive reviews of several factors. Carefully consider the type of system you want, the costs, and what local, state and federal incentives there are to help defray costs.
17th Street Canal Coalition: "How can one trespass on one's own property?" Below is a video showing a contractor who was hired by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. This contractor is attaching a 'No Trespassing' sign to a fence/barrier on property that the Corps has previously acknowledged was owned by the homeowners along the 17th Street Canal...land that the Corps claims to not be taking from the homeowners. (This video was recorded on February 8, 2011)
~This black fence to which the sign is attached was put up by the Corp's contractor. It crosses the rear private property of those homeowners, cutting their property in two. According to a public relations representative with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers' in New Orleans, one of the purposes of this fence/barrier is to prevent these homeowners from accessing this portion of their own property. This is property for which zero compensation has been paid by the government to any homeowner ever, a fact that is not disputed by either side. Does the land in this video look like land that is available for the private property owner to use in any way at all? The 17th Street Canal Coalition continues to ask that the South East Louisiana Flood Protection Authority, the Orleans Levee District, and the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers to work with them to resolve this issue, but thus far their request have fallen on deaf ears. ~More Info: 17th Street Canal Coalition, 504 432 4404 The perfect example - of what could go drastically wrong with BioDistrict New Orleans ~SaveCharityHospital.com Ghost schools haunt New Orleans neighborhoods~The Lens
Aquaculture up for debate ~Also, this from the Advocate in Baton Rouge, where Governorcist Bobby Jindal exorcises the Daemon of Higher Education from the soles of Louisiana state government: "Other goals include making decisions based on science..." ---whoopsee, Saaatan???
Greg Doyle, Fuck You You Fucking Fuck. Katrina did not "victimize" New Orleans Whodats~Hat Tweet~@superdeformed ~Editilla Whodatellas~ I knew when this butthole pulled from his ass "The Victim Card" on New Orleans, with Katrina as the Queen of Hearts no less, that he is incapable of understanding our feelings for the Saints and Coach Payton Post-Corps Flood. He still thinks of New Orleans as a "Victim of a Natural Disaster" rather than the Survivor of a Corps of Engineers Crime, to wit: the Federal Flood of 8/29/05.
So many of these pundit mfkrs use Katrina as just another excuse to tell the country how much they hate New Orleans. But, in sports writers like Greg Doyely I see it as even worse. It took most of them a year to even admit we won the Super Bowl --so fork'em with the pen they rode in on. Fork them all, I say.
Yeah, some whodats are out of control about Coach Payton's family plans --but not this whodat. He settled the issue for me, in public, with a straight-up answer --just as he usually does.
Whodats are going crazy rude. They are going to vent, it's why I love them so. But they are Our Whodats and we can say what we want about them --because we all know what it means-- but not this out-of-towner who would've just as soon seen our Saints move to San Antonio.
For the record, I'm not much of a "Sports Fan", due in no small measure to asshat attitudes of sports writers like Greg Doyle. I'm a Saints fan, WHODAT? All the rest we must pass over in silence....NOT!
Persistence Pays Off in New Orleans Hospitals Fight ~National Trust for Historic Places ~Altogether, by the end of January, a local newspaper article revealed that the opening date for the planned UMC hospital has now been pushed to 2015 – fully 10 years after Hurricane Katrina and the destruction wrought by the failure of the federal levees. The National Trust has long advocated for a plan that would have instead restored the historic Charity Hospital – and done so at less cost and in less time than the beleagured UMC proposal. So, even in a preservation effort that devolves into attrition and seeming stalemate over the course of years, the ground can occasionally shift, and persistence can pay off. While the greater battle may not be won, the overall impact of the contest can be still be changed. And here in New Orleans, that can mean a lot. ~Hat Tip~Levees.org
Whooping cranes to return Options to save oak tree dwindle ~The Youngsville Heritage Oak, believed to be more than 250 years old, must find a new home before work begins to straighten La. 92, but most options were shot down by officials
~Special thanks~liprap Why does Colin Meloy remind me so much of a cross between @humidbeings' webmaestro and Rene of Zeitgeist? #nolapdxconnex?
Monday, February 7, 2011
Group wants places where levees broke on National Historic Register ~Kevin McGill ~Levees.org announced its effort to put the locations on the National Register back in August. Organization founder Sandy Rosenthal said last week that Mark R. Barnes, an archaeologist who is retired from the National Parks Service and is now an associate professor at Georgia State University, has been retained to help guide them through the application effort. "I think generally people at the national level, at the state level, at the local level, realize the importance of these levee breach sites, that these are probably two of the most significant," Mark Barnes said. "And, I am pretty confident, having worked with the Parks Service for over 35 years and having been the first archaeologist with the National Register."
~LeveesOrg Levees.org~In this week's Heroes and Zeroes, Gambit Magazine (pg 11) chastised the New York Times' response to our Petition. http://huff.to/fkriiL Mooring company not liable in Lower 9th Ward barge case, judge rules ~In concluding his 42-page opinion, Duval wrote: "The horror and tragedy of the flooding that occurred in the Lower 9th Ward is one that must not be taken lightly. The testimony of those caught in the maelstrom is heartbreaking and defies belief that such a catastrophe could occur. However, where as here there is overwhelming evidence that the (barge) did not cause in any manner cataclysmic flooding of the Lower 9th Ward." As Huffington Post-AOL Merger Roars, Will NOLA Whisper? ~NOLA DEFENDER
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