Nature Connection - Energy & Environment
• More than 20,000 New Orleanians participated in Global Green’s innovative Build it Back Green (BIBG) workshops and community events. BIBG directly assisted over 3,000 New Orleans residents and saved approximately 1,713,500 pounds of CO2 from entering the atmosphere which is equal to the planting of 35,699 trees or taking 150 cars off the road for a year. • Over $1 million dollars in revenue was generated for local and small business contractors through Global Green's implementation of NOLA Wise that completed 170 single-family retrofits which will save a combined total of 763,170 kilowatt hours of energy per year for these families.
Global Green USA is also commemorating the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and their efforts to rebuild a greener New Orleans by launching the Climate Champions fundraising campaign. The initiative recommits resources to NOLA and other at-risk cities such as New York, San Francisco, Miami, and Los Angeles in order to complete their Lower Ninth Ward Climate Action and Community Center, enhance their New Orleans-based Disaster Response Team, and educate and motivate people in other cities to make changes to prevent climate related disasters and become prepared before they happen, thereby lessening the destruction and shortening the reconstruction process.
To learn more about Global Green's remarkable initiatives over the past decade check out the Katrina10 blog series at www.globalgreen.org/blog. For more information and to support the Climate Change Champions campaign, log onto www.GlobalGreen.org or text CLIMATE to 77717. PAGE 45