Spring Greening

Weekend Fundraising Festivities

Kansas City, MO

Where: The Levee

16 W 43rd St

Kansas City, MO

When: 5:30-7:30 Feb. 26th

Cost: Suggested donation $5

Washington DC

Where: AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center & Jackie's Restaurant

When: 5:45-10:00 Feb. 27th

For details click here.

San Antonio, TX

Where: Rita's on the Riverwalk

245 East Commerce

St San Antonio, TX

When: 7-11 Feb. 26th

Cost: $20 at the door

For details click here.

DC-Area Fundraiser for Historic Green: February 27th!

CALLING ALL DC-AREA NEW ORLEANS FANS: COME OUT TO CELEBRATE & SUPPORT THE SUSTAINABLE REBUILDING OF NEW ORLEANS’ LOWER 9th WARD

Climate change-related disasters continue to devastate communities around the globe, but your fellow Americans in New Orleans are still recovering from Katrina four years later. As they try to rebuild their homes and lives, please let them know you haven’t forgotten about them.

JOIN US on February 27 for a special screening at AFI Silver and New Orleans-style party following at Jackie’s Restaurant.

Screening: MINE - Directed by Geralyn Rae Pezanoski at AFI Silver Theatre, Silver Spring, MD, Saturday, February 27, 5:45 p.m.

General Admission: $10 AFI Members: $8.50; Students (With Valid I.D.) & Seniors (65+):$9.00 BUY TICKETS

Party: Jackie’s Restaurant, Silver Spring, 8–10:00 p.m. New Orleans party to follow screening. Join us for New Orleans cuisine, music by J.P. McDermott and a Silent Auction. $5 donation requested at the door, $10 buffet option. All proceeds will go directly to the New Orleans sustainable rebuilding event Historic Green.

via www.troublethewaterfilm.com

Making a Difference: Historic Green's Ryan Evans & Jeremy Knoll

Great new piece in NTHP's March/April 2010 issue of Preservation Magazine now out - and featuring our own Ryan Evans and Jeremy Knoll!

By Lindsey M. Roberts

Ryan Evans, 32, and Jeremy Knoll, 28, worked in Kansas—three states and 300 miles away from Louisiana. But when the friends learned that residents of New Orleans' Holy Cross neighborhood wanted to turn their storm-battered enclave into the nation's first carbon-neutral community, they saw an opportunity. In 2008, Evans, a mechanical engineer, and Knoll, an architect, took 350 volunteers to historic Holy Cross to restore and green homes. Their sustainable preservation efforts proved so successful that they incorporated a nonprofit called Historic Green, which helps dozens of neighbors retrofit their residences and save on energy bills each year. Historic Green volunteers also refurbish old windows, teach restoration techniques, and install innovative vapor barriers that inhibit the growth of mold. Knoll says residents can now afford to maintain energy-­efficient homes—and pass them along to their kids: "They're no longer priced out of their own neighborhood." Both entrepreneurs hope that communities around the world will benefit from their success. "Our model isn't being repeated anywhere on this scale," Evans says. "We hope to change that."

via www.preservationnation.org

Essay on the NOLA comeback by the Ragin' Cajun James Carville

New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- In September of 2005, no one could have anticipated what we saw in New Orleans last week. What happened on the football field and parade route after the Saints' Super Bowl victory is amazing and uplifting. But what's happening elsewhere in New Orleans also rises to that standard.

For more click here.

Historic Green in Eco-Structure Magazine

Check out Historic Green featured in Eco-Structure Magazine here.  Historic Green Chair and Co-founder Jeremy Knoll is interviewed about HG discussing why we exists and where we are going. 

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

Historic Green needs your help! We have just 2 weeks to attain the most votes on Brighter Planet in order to receive a $5000 Grant for our upcoming Spring Greening event in New Orleans! This is an extremely easy way to help out with an event that provides exciting volunteer opportunities in the Lower 9th Ward – without leaving your chair! Please take 3-to-5 minutes to register and vote three times using the information below. Thanks for your help – we can’t do it without you!

The Brighter Planet Project Fund seeks to foster local leadership and seed worthy community projects that will help people fight or adapt to climate change. Help Historic Green secure a $5,000 grant by voting for us at here , then encouraging your friends to do the same.

Details
Registration with Brighter Planet is required in order to vote.
Each person with a Brighter Planet profile will be allotted 3 votes per voting period.
The project with the most votes at the close of a voting period receive a grant.
Voting period closes on February 15th.

What can Historic Green do with $5,000?
· Weatherize 20 Homes
· Light a Community Park with Solar Power Lighting
· Finish a Community Center providing space for Children’s After School Programs
· Add Benches, a Pathway and Signage at a Bayou Overlook
· Build 10 Rain Gardens
· Help one New Orleans neighborhood rebuild as the nation’s first carbon neutral community.

For more information regarding Historic Green, go to www.historicgreen.org.

For more information about Brighter Planet, go to www.brighterplanet.org.