How Habitat for Humanity recycles the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree to build homes for those in need
We contacted Habitat for Humanity to get the full story behind what happened to the ghosts of Christmas trees...
New Orleans' $14.5 billion rebuilt levees won't fight a Category 5 hurricane
An often-repeated truth about Hurricane Katrina is that the events of August 29, 2005 were not a natural disaster...
Brad Pitt's Make it Right to unveil their first tiny house in New Orleans
Make it Right, the non-profit founded by Brad Pitt to provide sustainable housing in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward...
Brad Pitt Promises to Make it Right with Rotting New Orleans Homes
Some of the homes built by actor Brad Pitt’sMake it Right foundation, a non-profit responsible for constructing...
Divers Discover a 52,000-Year-Old Underwater Forest Off the Coast of Alabama
Scuba divers recently uncovered an incredible ancient Cypress forest buried deep in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico....
Make it Right's New Orleans FLOAT House by Morphosis to Gain LEED Platinum Certification
Morphosis respected the cultural vernacular of the common New Orleansshotgun house by first raising the structure...
Six Years After Katrina, Tropical Storm Lee Hits the Gulf Coast
Almost exactly six years after Hurricane Katrina slammed New Orleans, producing one of the worst natural disasters...
Vote for Make It Right and Energy-Efficient Homes for New Orleans
Pitt and his organization have already accomplished a great deal in New Orleans by actually building homes for...
Katrina Victims Seek to Sue Shell, Exxon, Other Carbon Emitters
More than four years have passed since Hurricane Katrinahit the south, and many residents still suffer today. One...
ANNIVERSARY OF HURRICANE KATRINA: Design for Disaster
Today marks the two-year anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina flooding tragedy and to make sure that people don't...
ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY BILOXI: Report from the Gulf Coast
My trip to the Gulf Coast this past week proved to be both sobering and inspiring, educational and thought-provoking....
ANNIVERSARY OF KATRINA: Designing for disaster
Today marks the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and to make sure that people don't forget it about the...
