Green Building: New Orleans

Although this is not a celebrity blog it is a green blog and, as a proponent of green building, I have to give props to Brad Pitt who was in New Orleans recently for the “board cutting” of Global Green’s first sustainable low-income housing community, Holy Cross, in the city’s ravaged Ninth Ward.

I’ll admit that when I first heard that Brad Pitt was chairing a sustainable design competition for one of the most significant rebuilding efforts of our time it felt a little too much like Team America, actors saving the world, kind of thing.

Today, on the two year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, it’s clear that this is a real deal effort that is making a difference. Pitt, together with Global Green, sponsored an international design competition for net zero energy housing and community center. With funding from lead partner The Home Depot Foundation, the final design is under construction and expected to be completed by fall.

• Global Green

BTW, thanks PittWatch for the great picture!