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February 2, 2026
Lee Beckwith
Lowlander Center receives grant from the ...

The grant aims to rebuild elevated, storm-resilient homes and install disaster-preparedness green infrastructure to help communities affected by Hurricanes Ida and Francine.

Lowlander Center receives grant from the American Red Cross to Rebuild Resilient Homes in Pointe-au-Chien
January 15, 2025
Updates
Lee Beckwith
Lowlander Center Wins 2024 Pitch It! Innovation ...

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.

Lowlander Center Wins 2024 Pitch It! Innovation Challenge for Portable Solar Project
August 23, 2024
Updates
Lee Beckwith
Emergency Portable Solar Panel Workshop A ...

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.

Emergency Portable Solar Panel Workshop A Success
September 23, 2023
Lee Beckwith
Pointe-au-Chien Featured on PBS

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!

Pointe-au-Chien Featured on PBS
September 15, 2022
Updates
Mona Porter
Hurricane Ida Pollution Report

A new report by Naomi Yoder and Sheehan Moore analyzes pollution incidents that occurred directly or indirectly due to Hurricane Ida.

Hurricane Ida Pollution Report
Lee Beckwith
February 3, 2026

Lowlander Receives Solar Panel Donation from the Honnold Foundation

Lee Beckwith
February 3, 2026
Lowlander Receives Solar Panel Donation from the Honnold Foundation

Lowlander received a generous donation of three pallets of solar panels from the Honnold Foundation to help us power up the most at risk communities across the state of Louisiana!

Lee Beckwith
February 2, 2026

Lowlander Center receives grant from the American Red Cross to Rebuild Resilient Homes in Pointe-au-Chien

Lee Beckwith
February 2, 2026
Lowlander Center receives grant from the American Red Cross to Rebuild Resilient Homes in Pointe-au-Chien

The grant aims to rebuild elevated, storm-resilient homes and install disaster-preparedness green infrastructure to help communities affected by Hurricanes Ida and Francine.

Lee Beckwith
January 30, 2026

Lowlander Team Members Featured in NPR's Sea Change Podcast

Lee Beckwith
January 30, 2026
Lowlander Team Members Featured in NPR's Sea Change Podcast

Lowlander board vice-president Rosina Philippe and Lowlander team member Dr. Gene Turner were recently featured in an episode of NPR’s Sea Change podcast. You can listen to the episode here!

Lee Beckwith
October 8, 2025

Lowlander Sponsors Barataria Terrebonne National Estuary Program Gala

Lee Beckwith
October 8, 2025
Lowlander Sponsors Barataria Terrebonne National Estuary Program Gala

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.

Lee Beckwith
September 22, 2025

Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe featured in Scientific American Documentary

Lee Beckwith
September 22, 2025
Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe featured in Scientific American Documentary

Check out this video from Scientific American that illuminates the story of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe: Climate Change Cost Them Their Ancestral Home

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzbIaL1wp-s&t=1s

Lee Beckwith
August 28, 2025

20 Years Since Katrina: Lessons Learned

Lee Beckwith
August 28, 2025
20 Years Since Katrina: Lessons Learned

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

Lee Beckwith
May 19, 2025

Pointe-au-Chien featured on PBS!

Lee Beckwith
May 19, 2025
Pointe-au-Chien featured on PBS!

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.

Source: https://www.pbs.org/video/living-shorelines-jobnpM/

Lee Beckwith
March 31, 2025

Support Us through See's Candies!

Lee Beckwith
March 31, 2025
Support Us through See's Candies!

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

Source: https://www.yumraising.com/store/all-year-2026-lowlander-center-ac86/KriPet9694

Lee Beckwith
January 15, 2025
Updates

Lowlander Center Wins 2024 Pitch It! Innovation Challenge for Portable Solar Project

Lee Beckwith
January 15, 2025
Updates
Lowlander Center Wins 2024 Pitch It! Innovation Challenge for Portable Solar Project

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.

Lee Beckwith
December 1, 2024

Lowlander Board Members Support Inaugural Gulf-Alaska Knowledge Exchange

Lee Beckwith
December 1, 2024
Lowlander Board Members Support Inaugural Gulf-Alaska Knowledge Exchange

Lowlander Board President Theresa Dardar and Vice President Rosina Philippe participated in the Gulf Research Program’s inaugural Gulf-Alaska Knowledge Exchange. May Nguyen, another Lowlander board member, is also on the steering committee for the Exchange.

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