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Global Green USA's Holy Cross Project: Update November, 2007 New Orleans, November 21, 2007- Global Green USA's Holy Cross Project, the most significant new construction in the Lower Ninth Ward since Katrina, is being developed on a formerly vacant site with some former light industrial use that left behind what is known as a brownfield. As such, we are addressing the soil contaminants we have found, mostly some isolated pockets of lead that, as we understand from the previous owner, resulted from sandblasting related to the adjacent wharf activities. As an environmental group we are taking most aggressive remediation process available, and hope others will do same. Dozens of Green Products and Systems including Solar Panels, Natural Soy Based Insulation and Sustainable Wood Showcased New Orleans, August 21, 2007 – Global Green USA celebrated a milestone before the 2nd Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina by touring progress of their first affordable green home under construction. The Holy Cross project is one of the first new home construction projects to be built in the Lower 9th Ward. The home, whose solar panels will generate enough electricity to power the home, is expected to be LEED Platinum certified. It is being built with green products and energy efficient systems that will ultimately be included in the completed project of five single family homes, an 18 multi-unit apartment complex and a community center/Sustainable Design and Climate Action Institute. Brad Pitt (initial sponsor and chair of the sustainable design competition jury), Global Green USA® and The Home Depot® Foundation -- the project’s lead funding partner -- toured the home with local community leaders and unveiled the final design for the project.
The Institute will be a "Center of Excellence" for the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast that demonstrates all aspects of green building, said Petersen. It will also be a gathering place of information, knowledge and leadership generated by the sustainable design and green building activity in and around New Orleans in response to Hurricane Katrina.
Pitt: Energy bills will be unnecessary: Pitt Power – Actors fame helps build the first house in the Holy Cross affordable-housing project: …Pitt showed up to check on the first house in a project he has been helping with his money and the power of celebrity. Accompanied by neighborhood residents and representatives of Global Green USA, which is sponsoring the initative, and the Home Depot Foundation, an underwriter, Pitt strolled through the two-story house, which will have solar panels that could reduce utility bills by 75 percent. |
Holy Cross Project Designs Press Contacts Sam Boykin Jeanne Nathan |
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