• Green Gridiron: Organic Super Bowl Food & Drinks

  Some people watch the Super Bowl for the game, others for the commercials and half-time show, still others for the opportunity to nosh on delicious and often decadent food and drinks. Me, I’m watching for all of the above. I’m hoping the Giants kick butt, Madonna gives us “Holiday,” at least one commercial makes me [...]

• Green Love: Call for Photos

  For Valentine’s Day this month, we are celebrating with #greenlove posts on Twitter. We’ll post them and ask you to post, too — you know, to help spread the (green) love. I took our first shot (Hipstamatic, Helga Viking lens, Kodot XGrizzled film) of fresh lavender and peas in the Santa Monica office from Richard and Mary’s [...]

• Home Green Home: Casa Dominguez

  Our Green Urbanism Program (GUP) team works on numerous green building projects with communities and local governments and agencies and we are excited about our 2012 plans to start documenting our progress with more photos and videos. Here, we put the spotlight on Casa Dominguez, an affordable housing development serving low-income Los Angelenos; we worked to [...]

• What They Said: Climate Scientists to the WSJ

  “There is very clear evidence that investing in the transition to a low-carbon economy will not only allow the world to avoid the worst risks of climate change, but could also drive decades of economic growth.” — Letter to the Wall Street Journal editors penned by climate scientists, in response to the “No Need to [...]

• Global Green Room Interview: Gary Gero

  We have worked with Gary Gero almost as long as we’ve been an organization, beginning when he worked for the city of Los Angeles and we were offering green building workshops for cities in California. He is now President of the Climate Action Reserve (formerly the California Climate Action Registry) and recently talked to our [...]

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• Global Green Room Interview: Andrew Kotchen
  

  As one of the principals at design firm Workshop/apd, architect Andrew Kotchen was a winner of Global Green’s Sustainable Design Competition for New Orleans in 2006. The team’s winning design is actualized with Global Green’s Holy Cross Project development in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. On the 5th anniversary of the international design competition, we talked [...]

• Sustainable Design Competition: 5th Anniversary
  

  This week, we mark the 5th anniversary of our Sustainable Design Competition for New Orleans. To celebrate the competition, we are looking back with daily posts, including reflections from Global Green CEO Matt Petersen and one of the winners, Andrew Kotchen from Workshop/apd. To begin with: the finalists from the design competition. As part of our [...]

• Joule Energy Volunteer Day: Raingardens & Bioswale Maintenance
  

  A big shoutout to our volunteers from Joule Energy, a local solar energy provider, who worked at the Holy Cross Project all day yesterday (June 24) – weeding, mulching, and planting in our two rain gardens. The group also weeded and added gravel and did some additional countouring on our bioswale. Thanks for all your [...]

• Rebuilding Green in New Orleans
  

  Nadav Malin, president of BuildingGreen, Inc., joined members of BNIM, local architects and Global Green’s Beth Galante on a tour of the Lower Ninth Ward during the recent AIA Convention in New Orleans. In addition to visiting the Make It Right project, he and the group learned about developments underway at the Holy Cross Project [...]

• Sunny Day at the Holy Cross Project
  

  It was a beautiful Spring day in the Holy Cross Neighborhood yesterday. Global Green staffer Linda Morgano was out and about, taking these photos in and around the Holy Cross Project to share. Thanks Linda!

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