Historic Green Day 2: Projects!

Volunteers from SUNY-Buffalo are restoring the bank of windows along the front of the Lower 9th Ward Village - re-caulking, cleaning, replacing temporary plexiglas panes with glass, and then adding solar film to minimize heat gain during the hot summer months.



Ryan Haugaard (of Manhattan, Kansas) and his crew rebuild the back of a two-story double shotgun in Holy Cross - took it all down, reconstructing it greener.



PHOTO: Darryl Malek-Wiley

Working on the rain garden at Delery Street playground - thanks to students from SUNY-Buffalo!

Meet James Lewis of the Lower Ninth Ward. Crews are working on his home (radiant barriers) at 1224 Gordon and the house next door (re-sheathing the exterior) to make them far more energy efficient. Mr. Lewis and his family were able to return to the Lower 9 about 1 1/2 years after Katrina - doing most of the repairs and rebuilding himself.

Comments

[Jeremy Knoll]

The solar film was a great idea! Looking good!