GLOBAL GREEN USA TO SERVE AS GREEN ADVISOR FOR GEHRY-TANNEN MODGUN

New Orleans, LA – June 17, 2009 - Global Green is excited to continue and expand our role as technical expert, advocate, and catalyst in advancing energy efficient, healthy housing in New Orleans. As the "green advisor" for the Gehry-Tannen Modgun design unveiled today in New Orleans, Global Green has found a new way to advance our Build it Back Green initiative to create energy efficient, healthy homes. While our primary focus is to help homeowners as they rebuild existing homes, this design - along with our Holy Cross Project - helps further our goal to green 10,000 of the homes to be rebuilt by New Orleans' families.
 
"We are proud to reaffirm Global Green's original vision for the green rebuilding of the Crescent City and creating green affordable housing - and schools - in neighborhoods throughout New Orleans. Compelling, contextual, sustainable affordable housing design saves money, improves health and reduces global warming emissions -- as we have said for the past 15 years, it must also become the standard practice for home construction not just in New Orleans, but in every city across the country.
 
Global Green has already helped educate thousands of residents about the benefits and opportunities of rebuilding green through city-wide workshops with community neighborhood organizations, monthly seminars, a comprehensive directory of locally available green products and its web resources available at www.globalgreen.org/bibg. Global Green's Resource Center in Downtown and New Orleans and its Holy Cross Project's Visitor Center in the Lower 9th Ward have also attracted thousands of visitors from throughout the region and around the world.
 
More about Global Green USA
Global Green USA is a national environmental non-profit organization that merges innovative research, cutting-edge community based projects and targeted advocacy to create a sustainable future. Global Green opened a New Orleans office shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf and is collaborating with environmentalists, community developers, urban organizations and others to create the building blocks for a climate friendly, model sustainable city for the 21st century. Global Green USA has helped "green" nearly $20 billion nationally in affordable housing, school, college, and municipal building construction through technical assistance, partnerships, advocacy, and education.  The organization has written and implemented green building, energy efficiency, and solar power guidelines in addition to legislation and incentives at the local, state, and federal level. It has also pioneered partnerships with countless non-profits, developers and government agencies.