A nice gesture....it's good to have celebs setting examples:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071203/us_nm/neworleans_pitt_dc
Actor Brad Pitt said on Monday he wants to build 150 environmentally friendly homes for families displaced by Hurricane Katrina in a hard-hit New Orleans neighborhood
He has been a vocal critic of faltering government efforts to rebuild New Orleans and has worked with environmental group Global Green USA on a separate project to construct environmentally friendly homes in the city.
Pitt has pledged up to match up to $5 million in donations for the Make It Right project, which he announced at a conference in New York in September.
An international team of 13 architectural firms has submitted designs for the single-family homes, the first of which could be finished by May 2008. The new homes will be elevated to withstand future floods.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071203/us_nm/neworleans_pitt_dc
Actor Brad Pitt said on Monday he wants to build 150 environmentally friendly homes for families displaced by Hurricane Katrina in a hard-hit New Orleans neighborhood
He has been a vocal critic of faltering government efforts to rebuild New Orleans and has worked with environmental group Global Green USA on a separate project to construct environmentally friendly homes in the city.
Pitt has pledged up to match up to $5 million in donations for the Make It Right project, which he announced at a conference in New York in September.
An international team of 13 architectural firms has submitted designs for the single-family homes, the first of which could be finished by May 2008. The new homes will be elevated to withstand future floods.