We are excited to announce that the Lowlander Center placed first in the Greater New Orleans Foundation’s 2024 Pitch It! Innovation Challenge. The $50,000 grant we will receive will support our “Sky Power for the People” project, which brings emergency, portable solar panels to communities in need.
For a hot week in August folks gathered in DeRidder, LA to learn and build portable solar units to be used both in blue skies and in disaster situations. Rev. Jerry Egbert and Boksoon Egbert hosted a crew of eager learners from across the coast. At the end of the week, one complete unit was taken away on the back of a pickup truck and delivered to Grand Bayou.
Theresa Dardar, Donald Dardar, and Kristina Peterson discuss land loss as the first part of the PBS docuseries “In Their Element: Earth, Air, Fire, Water.” Watch it here!
A new report by Naomi Yoder and Sheehan Moore analyzes pollution incidents that occurred directly or indirectly due to Hurricane Ida.
Members of the Lowlander team enjoyed fun evening raising money for the Barataria Terrebonne National Estuary Program, which Lowlander Center serves on the Management Team and several of its committees.
Check out this video from Scientific American that illuminates the story of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe: Climate Change Cost Them Their Ancestral Home
Now that it has been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina, Lowlander compiled some resources highlighting the lessons we have learned over the past two decades. Check it out here: Katrina Lessons
Lowlander Center Board President Theresa Dardar was recently featured on an episode of “Louisiana Coastal Cooking.” The episode explores work that the Pointe-au-Chien tribe has done in collaboration with the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana to recreate a living shoreline that helps protect Louisiana’s rich coastal environment.
Here’s a sweet way to support the rebuilding of Pointe au Chien! As Easter approaches, you can satisfy your sweet tooth while simultaneously supporting the work of the Lowlander Center. We will receive a portion of the profits for any purchases made through this link: Lowlander - See's Candies
We are excited to announce that the Lowlander Center placed first in the Greater New Orleans Foundation’s 2024 Pitch It! Innovation Challenge. The $50,000 grant we will receive will support our “Sky Power for the People” project, which brings emergency, portable solar panels to communities in need.
Give a sweet gift this season with a yummy way to help rebuild people's lives and communities.
See's Candies will donate a portion of their profits to the Lowlander Center for all items purchased through our direct link: Lowlander - See's Candies.
The National Tribal and Indigenous Climate Conference held in Anchorage, September 9-12, was an opportunity for learning, sharing and deepening connections in and between Indigenous peoples. Many youth, mainly from Alaska, joined the event as presenters and participants. Isabela Salinas was one of the representatives from the Louisiana Hub. What follows are her observations and learnings from her full engagement in the meeting.
