Green Options » levee failures http://greenoptions.com/tag/levee-failures Posts tagged 'levee failures' Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:58:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Year Three in Rebuilding New Orleans: Taking More Green Steps, One by One http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/06/02/year-three-in-rebuilding-new-orleans-taking-more-green-steps-one-by-one/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/06/02/year-three-in-rebuilding-new-orleans-taking-more-green-steps-one-by-one/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:58:59 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/06/02/year-three-in-rebuilding-new-orleans-taking-more-green-steps-one-by-one/ A discarded fridge sits outside a New Orleans home after Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures. (Image credit: Infrogmation at Wikimedia Commons under a GNU Free Documentation license.)The post-Katrina rebuilding effort in New Orleans has a long way to go, but some residents, activists and volunteers are celebrating one small but noteworthy step after another toward a more sustainable city.

Their efforts take on a special poignancy with the start of yet another hurricane season (it officially began on June 1, though the tropical system Arthur formed a day early around the Yucatan Peninsula). With lingering La Niña conditions and water temperatures in parts of the Gulf of Mexico already a degree or two above average, there’s reason to be concerned.

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