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2009-09-01T05:04:14.132Z

The Netherlands Tour

2009-08-31T21:20:19.130Z

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Created a video documentary using footage captured by an Amsterdam-based filmmaker while in The Netherlands this past May....HJ Bosworth Jr and Sandy Rosenthal were part of US Senator Mary Landrieu's Second Congressional Delegation (CoDel) excursion to Holland. Unlike the first CoDel which studied peripheral barriers (floodgates), the goal of the Second CoDel was to see how the Dutch live with with and manage water in urban settings.

Do Right

2009-07-19T21:51:20.567Z

he Alliance for Climate Protection today released a new national television ad, Do Right, encouraging Americans to support the path away from foreign oil and toward clean energy now.

Every president since Richard Nixon has called for an energy policy less reliant on foreign sources. Now, the ad says, is the best time for us to act to ensure our country develops clean energy sources that protect our planet and helps our national security and creates-- jobs when the country is in need of a sustainable economic recovery.

For more information on the plan to Repower America, visit http://www.repoweramerica.org

Rap video encourages youth to go green

2009-07-14T00:47:32.507Z

The Louisiana Green Corps and the Alliance for Affordable Energy have joined forces to create a rap video advertising a green jobs training program in New Orleans.

Although Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans nearly four years ago, many segments of the city have not been rebuilt yet. The Louisiana Green Corps and the Alliance for Affordable Energy have joined forces to help rebuild New Orleans with energy efficient housing. In order to provide skilled workers for these projects, the organizations have created a 14-week training program to provide green jobs training for the youth of the city.

Green jobs training programs for at-risk youth have received a lot of attention, as well as funding, from the Obama administration. In order to help spread the word about the New Orleans’ program, the two organizations created a rap video, which was uploaded to YouTube last week.

The “Going Green” video shows members of the Louisiana Green Corps providing weatherization upgrades to houses in the city. The video is a great motivational tool targeted at getting the at-risk youth of the city into a green collar job in just a few short months. After completing the 14-week training series, graduates of the program will be prepared to start either an apprenticeship or gain entry-level employment.

The Louisiana Green Corps is part of the Conservation Corps of Greater New Orleans (CCGNO). “Participating CCGNO project sites will collaboratively train up to 800 court involved youth annually in the Greater New Orleans Area. The Corps is based on a Civic Justice Corps model that educates and trains court involved youth through proposing, leading, implementing, and exhibiting projects to communities in need. “ Source: LA Green Corps

This program is just one of many programs across the country aimed at providing a pathway out of poverty for our nation’s at-risk youth.

http://www.lagreencorps.org

Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans masqueraded as ordinary citizens to trash Levees.org

2009-06-23T14:30:51.407Z

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Hiding their identities, people at the US Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans masqueraded as ordinary citizens and attempted to rewrite the history of the New Orleans flooding by posting misinformation on the internet with the regions leading news source - the Times Picayune.

For a period extending over three years, these often nasty comments had the combined effect of shifting responsibility for the Corps destructive and deadly levee failures during Katrina away from itself and onto the citizens of metro New Orleans.

Levees.org believes every citizen in America should be outraged that their Army Corps of Engineers, tasked by Congress to protect us, is instead attacking us.

Find out much more at http://levees.org.

Talk about this on twitter with hash-tag #corpslies and follow us at http://twitter.com/LeveesOrg.