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
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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
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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
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
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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

How Tulsa Became A Model For Preventing Floods

How Tulsa Became A Model For Preventing Floods

For decades, Tulsa planned carefully and imposed regulations to prevent the kind of devastating floods that used to make national headlines. Now other cities are noticing.