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We Rebuilt This City In which we ask a mess of smart people what should happen in New Orleans	Sarah Kraybill	24 Oct 2005	Main Dish
We asked environmental, political, and academic leaders from around the country about their hopes for the rebuilding of New Orleans. Here's what some of them had to say. Be sure to check out the rest of this week's contributions, and add your thoughts in Gristmill. Day One \| Day Two \| Day Three \| Day Four \| Day Five Nathalie Walker and Monique Harden Monique Harden. New Orl ...
Topics: Louisiana, placemaking (all these topics)

We Rebuilt This City In which we ask a mess of smart people what should happen in New Orleans	Sarah Kraybill	24 Oct 2005	Main Dish
Unless you've been living under a rock -- and these days, we can't say we'd blame you -- you've probably put at least a smidgen of thought toward the fate of New Orleans. It's a rare thing to reconstruct an American city from scratch (though we can think of a few more cities we'd put on the list). There are some who advocate letting bygones be bygones, allowing the name and ...
Topics: Louisiana, placemaking (all these topics)

We Rebuilt This City In which we ask a mess of smart people what should happen in New Orleans	Sarah Kraybill	24 Oct 2005	Main Dish
We asked environmental, political, and academic leaders from around the country about their hopes for the rebuilding of New Orleans. Here's what some of them had to say. Be sure to check out the rest of this week's contributions, and add your thoughts in Gristmill. Day One \| Day Two \| Day Three \| Day Four \| Day Five Wilma Subra Photo: Terri Fensel. Before the city is rebuil ...
Topics: Louisiana, placemaking (all these topics)

We Rebuilt This City In which we ask a mess of smart people what should happen in New Orleans	Sarah Kraybill	24 Oct 2005	Main Dish
We asked environmental, political, and academic leaders from around the country about their hopes for the rebuilding of New Orleans. Here's what some of them had to say. Be sure to check out the rest of this week's contributions, and add your thoughts in Gristmill. Day One \| Day Two \| Day Three \| Day Four \| Day Five Don Chen I hope federal, state, and local authorities can ...
Topics: Louisiana, placemaking (all these topics)

We Rebuilt This City In which we ask a mess of smart people what should happen in New Orleans	Sarah Kraybill	24 Oct 2005	Main Dish
We asked environmental, political, and academic leaders from around the country about their hopes for the rebuilding of New Orleans. Here's what some of them had to say. Be sure to check out the rest of this week's contributions, and add your thoughts in Gristmill. Day One \| Day Two \| Day Three \| Day Four \| Day Five Laurie David From the moment Katrina hit the abnormally wa ...
Topics: Louisiana, placemaking (all these topics)

The Trash Money Crew New Orleans garbage will fill at least 3.5 million truckloads		17 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
The Trash Money Crew New Orleans garbage will fill at least 3.5 million truckloads We'd hate to be the ones tasked with separating out the recycling: Cleaning up New Orleans will involve hauling 22 million tons of garbage and waste that have been moldering in the heat and damp since late August's Hurricane Katrina, including rotting food, ruined furniture, carpeting, metals, chemicals, and more. It's the ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Throw Momma From the Pontchartrain Some post-Katrina floodwaters cleaner than expected		13 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Throw Momma From the Pontchartrain Some post-Katrina floodwaters cleaner than expected Some of the floodwaters pumped out of New Orleans by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers -- about 250 billion gallons all told, dumped mostly into Lake Pontchartrain -- may not have been as toxic as initially feared. Researchers at Louisiana State University took samples five to nine days after the deluge and found ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Louisiana, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Hung Out to Dry Post-Katrina floodwaters are dirty, but so are other U.S. waterways	Osha Gray Davidson	11 Oct 2005	Main Dish
Last month, "toxic gumbo" entered the American lexicon with the speed and force of the floodwaters it describes. A LexisNexis search of major U.S. publications doesn't return a single hit for the phrase in the year before Hurricane Katrina. But in the 30 days after the storm's landfall, 66 articles contained the phrase. Measure twice, cup once. "I want to be very c ...
Topics: Iowa, Louisiana, toxics, United States, water pollution (all these topics)

System of a Drown The long history of political bungling that sank New Orleans		10 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
System of a Drown The long history of political bungling that sank New Orleans In "The Slow Drowning of New Orleans," The Washington Post's Michael Grunwald and Susan B. Glasser trace the centuries-long history of shortsighted greed and political expediency that left the Crescent City vulnerable to disaster. In recent decades, Louisiana has received more Army Corps of Engineers funding than any ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Louisiana, news, wetlands (all these topics)

You've Got Nail On rebuilding the Gulf Coast	Umbra Fisk	10 Oct 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, There seem to be plenty of good organizations accepting dollars to help the people of the Gulf Coast. But as The Nature Conservancy has said, "While current attention is rightfully focused on the immediate human toll and suffering of this tragedy, the ecological damage has yet to be assessed." The rebuilding effort, it seems, ought to occur in an environmentally sustainable way. Where can we direct our d ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, environmental non-government organizations, environmental planning, Louisiana (all these topics)

The Mold Song and Dance EPA failing to inform or protect folks returning to post-Katrina mess		07 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
The Mold Song and Dance EPA failing to inform or protect folks returning to post-Katrina mess The U.S. EPA has the authority to assess and manage environmental disasters, but activists and even some EPA staffers allege that so far agency testing of water, air, and soil in the Gulf Coast has been insufficient, and its health warnings too weak, to adequately protect returning residents. EPA should be more actively preventing ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

We'll Always Have Parish Louisiana faces massive trash and toxics cleanups		04 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
We'll Always Have Parish Louisiana faces massive trash and toxics cleanups New Orleans' ecological recovery is likely to be both complex and lengthy. State environmental officials say Hurricane Katrina left around 22 million tons of debris in southeast Louisiana, 12 million of it in Orleans Parish. The ginormous load of trash ranges from organics like downed trees and rotting food to about 6 ...
Topics: land degradation, Louisiana, news, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Win, Lose, or Crawfish New Orleans-area fish, shrimp, crab are OK to eat; oysters, not so much		03 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Win, Lose, or Crawfish New Orleans-area fish, shrimp, crab are OK to eat; oysters, not so much Though few folks are there to eat it, much of the seafood from Lake Pontchartrain next to New Orleans seems safe for consumption, say state environmental officials. About 80 percent of the city's sewage-tainted floodwaters have been pumped into the lake, but so far no significant chem ...
Topics: Louisiana, marine life, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, news (all these topics)

Chevy to the Levees David Helvarg sends a dispatch from the hurricane-ravaged South		29 Sep 2005	Dispatches
David Helvarg is president of the Blue Frontier Campaign, which originally published this article. He is also author of the forthcoming, revised Blue Frontier: Dispatches from America's Ocean Wilderness (Sierra Club, 2006) and 50 Simple Ways to Save the Ocean (Inner Ocean, 2006). � Thursday, 29 Sep 2005 NEW ORLEANS, La. The smell of New Orleans is mostly not of dead bodies, but of a dead city. It's lost both its ...
Topics: Dispatches, Louisiana (all these topics)

Rattle the Cajun Post-Rita Louisiana deals with another round of environmental problems		26 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Rattle the Cajun Post-Rita Louisiana deals with another round of environmental problems An already-battered Louisiana is beset with new environmental crises in the wake of Hurricane Rita, which sent a wall of water up to 15 feet high surging into the state's coastal bayous and canals on Saturday. In New Orleans, officials are scrambling to assess whether the renewed flooding burst oil and chemical storage tanks and other i ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, oceans, toxics (all these topics)

The Weak in Review New Orleans floodwalls should have stood up to Katrina's storm surge		22 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
The Weak in Review New Orleans floodwalls should have stood up to Katrina's storm surge Why did the floodwalls on Lake Pontchartrain fail to protect New Orleans? The official explanation from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been that the key 17th Street and London Avenue floodwalls were built to protect against a Category 3 hurricane -- a Category 4 like Katrina wasn't in the plan. But some Louisiana hurricane ...
Topics: environmental planning, Louisiana, news (all these topics)

Gulf Toast Woods, wetlands, and marine ecosystems hit hard by storm, pollution		21 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Gulf Toast Woods, wetlands, and marine ecosystems hit hard by storm, pollution The Gulf Coast's estuaries, wetlands, and cypress swamps are hurting in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The storm damaged 25 national wildlife refuges, and recovery costs are expected to be at least $93 million -- about a quarter of the federal refuge budget. In Mississippi's Noxubee refuge, pine trees crucial ...
Topics: Louisiana, Mississippi, news, oceans, toxics, wetlands, wildlife (all these topics)

A Flood of Accusations Justice Dept. looking for ways to blame New Orleans flood on enviros		19 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
A Flood of Accusations Justice Dept. looking for ways to blame New Orleans flood on enviros The feds are digging around for info they could use to blame the flooding of New Orleans on environmentalists. At the request of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the Justice Department last week emailed U.S. attorneys' offices in the Gulf Coast region with this question: "Has your district defended any ...
Topics: environmental planning, Louisiana, news (all these topics)

Big Dreams for the Big Easy What New Orleans could look like the second time around	Timothy Lange	15 Sep 2005	Soapbox
I heard that George Bush told New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin the city could be remade into "a shining example for the whole world." If Bush did say that, it surely wasn't an environmentally sound renaissance he had in mind. But that is precisely what is needed. Call it Eco New Orleans. It should encompass not just the city, but the other places blasted by Katrina and by FEMA ...
Topics: environmental planning, Louisiana, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Flood Is Thicker Than Water Assessing toxic hazards in New Orleans challenges the EPA		15 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Flood Is Thicker Than Water Assessing toxic hazards in New Orleans challenges the EPA The post-Katrina mess of pollution along the Gulf Coast is "the largest national disaster that we at EPA or, we believe, that the nation has faced," U.S. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson said yesterday. Serious health problems threaten the region, he said, including floodwaters tainted with sewage-related bact ...
Topics: Louisiana, news, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Storm Front and Center The environmental take on Hurricane Katrina		12 Sep 2005	Main Dish
When Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast, it stirred up not just gale-force winds and untold misery, but a host of difficult environmental questions. How did heedless coastal development exacerbate the hurricane's toll? What's behind the socio-economic disparity in environmental planning -- and emergency response to environmental disasters? Did global warming make the storm more intense? What new ecolo ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Louisiana, severe weather (all these topics)

Egrets, I've Had a Few Feds start to assess ecological damage to refuges near New Orleans		12 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Egrets, I've Had a Few Feds start to assess ecological damage to refuges near New Orleans The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is beginning to gauge damage from Hurricane Katrina to the 23,000-acre Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge east of New Orleans and the Big Branch National Wildlife Refuge on the north side of Lake Pontchartrain, home to the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker. Thoug ...
Topics: health, Louisiana, news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

Race to the Bottom Slow Katrina evacuation fits pattern of injustice during crises	Liza Featherstone	08 Sep 2005	Main Dish
Much of the world -- including white America -- has been shocked by the devastation in New Orleans, and by the ongoing failures it has exposed at every possible level of government. Even normally unflappable TV news anchors and politicians have been moved to outrage, asking why those left behind were mostly black, poor, disabled, elderly. Veterans of the environmental-justice movem ...
Topics: environmental justice, Louisiana, politics (all these topics)

Net Loss Katrina has wiped out Louisiana's fishing industry		08 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Net Loss Katrina has wiped out Louisiana's fishing industry This should be the height of Louisiana's shrimp and oyster season, but the state's $2.7 billion-a-year commercial fishing industry may be another casualty of Hurricane Katrina. The region's fishers, shrimpers, and oyster harvesters typically supply the U.S. with about 30 percent of its seafood, and the industry employs about 27,000 people. But Katrina destr ...
Topics: business, Louisiana, marine life, news (all these topics)

U Can't Touch This EPA warns against skin contact with toxic New Orleans floodwaters		08 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
U Can't Touch This EPA warns against skin contact with toxic New Orleans floodwaters The floodwaters swamping New Orleans have become a filthy, toxic stew, testing at least 10 times over the U.S. EPA's limits for sewage-related contaminants like E. coli, viruses, and cholera-like bacteria. The EPA has warned that skin contact with floodwater could be almost as risky to human health as drinking it; searchers are giving the ...
Topics: health, Louisiana, news, toxics (all these topics)

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