Community Organizations
Global Green USA
Contact info
Heidi Jensen
(504) 525-2121
841 Carondelet St
New Orleans, LA 70130
Website: http://www.globalgreen.org
Services Offered
Neighborhoods Served:
• Holy Cross
Planning District:
1
Ward:
4, 9
Zip Codes:
70130
Council Representative:
N/A
State Representative:
N/A
Police Precinct:
7
President / Director:
Elizabeth Galante
Mission:
Global Green is working to address some of the greatest challenges facing humanity. In the United States our work is primarily focused on stemming global climate change by creating green buildings and cities.
Global Green USA is committed to creating a green model for development and rebuilding for New Orleans through our four projects and programs: the Build it Back Green program, our Green Building Resource Center, the Green Schools program, and the Holy Cross Project. Through the Build it Back Green program, we disseminate information to homeowners on ways to rebuild in an energy efficient, healthy, and sustainable manner. Our Green Building Resource Center, at 841 Carondelet St., is a space for New Orleanians to gather all the information they need about green building. The Green Schools program not only retrofits schools in New Orleans with energy efficient and healthy measures, but it also promotes environmental education to the future of New Orleans. The Holy Cross Project, and its Visitor Center, is a green affordable housing community that strives to educate New Orleanians, the Gulf Coast, and the broader American public about the benefits of green building.
Current Priorities:
- Housing
- Public Education
Partners:
Holy Cross, Broadmoor
February 26th 2013
NOLA Wise Neighborhood Energy Challenge Update
Competition is stiff in the NOLA Wise Neighborhood Energy Challenge!
NOLA Wise has challenged neighborhood teams to see who can have the most Home Performance Evaluations (HPE) completed within their boundaries. The winning neighborhood will receive $5000 to put towards a neighborhood greening project. HPEs will be tallied until March 31st, and the winning neighborhood will be announced mid-April.
All homeowners who complete a home energy retrofit through the NOLA Wise program, including those located outside of Neighborhood Challenge team boundaries, are eligible for a limited-time-only $750 cash back incentive.
Contact NOLA Wise to sign up for a Home Performance Evaluation and learn how your house can start saving energy and money, and help your neighborhood to reach its greening goals!
504-523-WISE (9473), , or http://www.nolawise.org
Participating Neighborhood Challenge teams:
Mid City Volleyball Group and Mid City Neighborhood Organization (Mid City)
Hollygrove Neighbors
Villages of the East Coalition (VEC)
January 30th 2013
$750 Cash back Incentive
Please see the exciting new offer from NOLA Wise, which now provides Orleans Parish homeowners a $750 cash back incentive for making energy efficiency improvements on their homes! These incentives are in addition to the already-available Energy Smart incentives from Entergy New Orleans.
Spread the word!
Call us today at 504-523-WISE or visit nolawise.org to learn more.
January 2nd 2013
Introducing the NOLA Wise Neighborhood Energy Challenge!
Talk about some healthy competition! Your neighborhood can start off 2013 right by competing to become the most NOLA Wise! NOLA Wise is an energy efficiency program available to New Orleans homeowners through a partnership between the Mayor’s office and the nonprofit organization Global Green USA.
NOLA Wise Neighborhood Challenge!
January 21st – March 31st
Applications due Tuesday, January 15th
Do you have a corner lot just waiting to become a garden? Would your community center benefit from lower utility bills? Form a neighborhood team and compete with fellow New Orleanians to win $5000 for a community greening project of your choice, courtesy of NOLA Wise!
NOLA Wise provides homeowners with the tools they need to improve their homes’ comfort, affordability and efficiency. Step one is to have a home performance evaluation (HPE) to see how the home could upgrade its energy performance. From there, homeowners have the option of working with a NOLA Wise approved and trained green building contractor to complete the energy efficiency work on their homes. NOLA Wise accesses all available incentives to lower the cost of the project, provides access to low interest loans and does the quality control on the work to ensure that it’s done right the first time.
The challenge winner is the neighborhood with the most homes to have HPEs completed!
Teams will be responsible for promoting NOLA Wise, via volunteer networks, social media, and all available outreach methods, as well as encouraging residents to get an HPE. Neighborhoods will be provided with any NOLA Wise branded marketing materials that are needed, digital or print. In order to register a neighborhood team, please submit a proposal to by Tuesday, January 15th.
You will be notified about final proposal acceptance by January 18th, and the collection of HPE’s will occur between January 21st and March 31st. Totals will be calculated and the winners will be announced by April 15th, 2013.
Proposals should include, but are not limited to, the following information:
Team Information:
Neighborhood (you may create an advantage for yourself by banning together with nearby neighborhoods)
Geographic boundaries
Team leader
Contact information
Description of Outreach Plan
How will you promote NOLA Wise and get people to sign up for an HPE? Methods can include social media, canvassing, volunteers, etc.
Community Project Information
If you win, what community project will the $5000 prize money go towards?
How will this project serve the broadest spectrum of community members and need?
Do you have any matching funding to complete the project?
What is the total cost?
What is the time frame for completion?
How would the project lead to a more sustainable New Orleans?
http://nolawise.org/events/neighborhoodchallenge
