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Back in late August, Global Green and Brad Pitt announced the winners of the Global Green Sustainable Design Competition For New Orleans. The winning proposal, titled GreeNOLA and submitted by Matthew Berman and Andrew Kotchen of Workshop APD, calls for six houses and two multifamily units which employ energy-efficient appliances, solar power, and recycled building materials, as well as providing social services like child care and a community garden. Workshop APD's proposal is designed to cut pollution and decrease operating energy use by 50-60 percent, compared to traditional homes. The success of the GreeNOLA design is its seemless integration of cutting edge green technology with the traditional building wisdom of the region. This combination creates healthy and affordable new residences for displaced residents of New Orleans.
Sprinter/Miler of the Year GI Jane, and has already publicly been noted as the target for horses such as Darci Brahma, Seachange and Hasta La Ciao Ciao. The Telegraph Handicap has previously held the world record for 1200m. Sharp are now sponsors of the sharpest run race in the country.
The Telegraph Handicap is the major race on the Wellington Racing Clubs Wine and Racing Festival Raceday, which features five Group or Listed races on its programme. The meeting is the first day of the Century City Developments Wellington Cup Carnival run over 20, 22 and 27 January 2007.
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Mississippi is competing with Louisiana for a $400 million pilot program that would replace FEMA travel trailers with so-called "Katrina cottages," or other modular housing. But the quickest way to get into a cottage is by heading to your local Lowe's store. The Katrina cottage was introduced more than a year ago, as a stronger, more comfortable alternative to the FEMA travel trailers. The steel-framed cottage is built to withstand 140-mile-per-hour winds. "It's affordable housing and it's excellent for displaced residents," said Mike Brisson, Lowe's operations manager in Flowood, but it could be months before the government may begin issuing the cottages. In the meantime, Private Enterprise is taking advantage of the widespread interest in the tiny homes, and not just from hurricane victims.
About $5.4 million worth of home kits intended for 2005 hurricane victims were auctioned off on a government Web site Tuesday for $460,000 because they were exposed to the weather at a FEMA storage facility in Texarkana, Texas. Local Rotarian Bob Kranz is trying to make sure that nongovernment agencies such as Habitat for Humanity, Baptist Mens' Group or the Rotary would get the first shot before more damaged homes are auctioned off. "I want these homes here," said Kranz. "We (the taxpayers) paid for them. Why should the salvage companies be making a big profit?" He said if they took out just the toilets from the estimated 150 truckloads of materials recently auctioned, a salvage company could sell them for about $40,000. The Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General issued a report in October saying FEMA purchased 224 pre-fabricated homes from Trimarro Homes Inc.
Even during a vacation trip to the Finger Lakes region of New York for the field hockey Final Four (NCAA Division III), reality and the issues with which we wrestle in Centre County intrude. They came to me in a dream, inspired, perhaps, by the eerie evening sky after a mid-November downpour or by standing in the wind-driven rain for five hours through both semifinal games. Or maybe it was the Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard's exquisite semi-dry Riesling that I sipped from the elegant plastic cup in the motel room -- there's not much else to do up there in the off-tourist season -- before dozing off. Whatever the genesis, I woke up in a cold sweat and scribbled what I could remember on the bedside tablet, hoping to find meaning -- other than the value of temperance -- in my nighttime vision.
Saying they would provide a cheaper and faster way for residents to replace storm-damaged homes, the Kenner City Council Thursday unanimously voted to allow modular homes in single-family zoning districts. "The modular home industry has made some great strides," Planning Department Director Jay Hebert told the council. He said the modular homes, which are partially built in a factory, are "indistinguishable" from conventionally built homes. They take one-third of the time of conventional homes to build, he said. The homes would be allowed in the single-family residential zoning district, but only with council approval. An application to the Kenner Planning Department and the Planning and Zoning Commission would be required, with the final decision to come from the council.
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