• Pre-Oscar Party: The Music

  Below, clips from a few acts and DJs we have already lined up for our Pre-Oscar party at Avalon Hollywood on February 22. Click on their names here for music samples: Evaline, The New Division, Garth Trinidad, Michael Smith. (And click here for tickets to the big event!) Evaline The New Division Garth Trinidad

• Word Up: Stephen Hawking Quote

  The quote from today’s weekly staff meeting comes from Stephen Hawking: “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there [...]

• Weekly Rewind: January 30-February 5

  Score!: It was the greenest Super Bowl (Grist post) and they even served organic chili at the concession (Ecorazzi post). We’re feeling a little stuffed today from the food (organic, of course). Camera Ban: “Gasland” filmmaker Josh Fox was arrested while trying to film at a Capitol hearing on fracking. (Story on the arrest and statement from [...]

• 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 [...]

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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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