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At 9 o’clock:

Broad Community Connections

Broad Community Connections is a Main Street organization devoted to revitalizing Broad Street from Tulane Avenue to Bayou Road as a vibrant commercial corridor, bringing together the surrounding neighborhoods and promoting their economic, residential, and cultural development.

The ReFresh Project is an innovative fresh food hub located on North Broad Street at Bienville Avenue in New Orleans including Whole Foods Market, Liberty’s Kitchen program for at-risk youth, The Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine at Tulane University, and an onsite teaching farm, among other tenants. Read all about it!

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Also at 9:

Lafitte Greenway construction update from Friends of the Lafitte Corridor!

Lafitte Greenway Rendition

Green Keepers

Green Keepers is a five-part educational series offering instruction to New Orleanians on green infrastructure works. Parkway Partners intends to collaborate with graduates to develop community-based green infrastructure projects around the city. Topics include introduction to green infrastructure; vertical gardens & rooftop gardens; small-scale water catchment; large-scale water catchment; bioswales & rain gardens; plants for green infrastructure; green infrastructure at urban farms & community gardens; and concrete & permeability. Free and open to all. Learn more! Series topics and schedule.

All Things Local is hosted and produced by Kevin Fitzwilliam, science teacher and co-founder of Hollygrove Market & Farm. The show focuses on the local economy, our natural resources, green/sustainable living and urban design, and the unique culture of New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana. We explore issues that make a difference in our everyday lives: neighborhood shopping and local artisans, farmers’ markets and the local food system, transportation, outdoor adventures, festivals, and more. We interview the people who are “making it happen” to give practical information and advice to our listeners. Tune in every Saturday morning and follow us on facebook and twitter – you’ll be glad you did!

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On All Things Local this Saturday, February 15:

In the 8 o’clock hour:

Join hosts Kevin Fitzwilliam and Dana Eness with the Urban Conservancy and guests Travis Martin, UNO, Kim Hunicke, New Orleans Metropolitan Association of Realtors, and Rami Diaz, Waggonner & Ball Architects.

In the 9 o’clock hour:
Join Kevin and guests Ed Branley, GoNOLA, and Katrina Brees, I Heart Louisiana.

In the 8 o’clock hour with the Urban Conservancy:

How to make New Orleans uglier and less safe:
continue to ignore yard paving

“A wave of “pave-o-mania” has spread throughout Orleans Parish in recent years, and threatens to convert the Crescent City into a veritable concrete jungle.” Read the article by Travis Martin in the LENS, January 31, 2014.

Draft Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance and Maps – City of New Orleans

Article 23. Landscape, Stormwater Management, & Screening.

How to Build Your Own Raingarden

LSU AgCenter

Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan for the east banks of Orleans and Jefferson Parishes and St. Bernard Parish View the Plan

As organic soils are drained of water, their contents oxidize, or decompose and shrink. The areas with the highest percentage of organic material in their soils typically have the highest potential for subsidence. Water levels in these areas demand special attention to avoid unnecessary damage to buildings and infrastructure.

New Orleans Metropolitan Association of REALTORS

NOMAR GREEN COMMITTEE: To facilitate information and education of green products and pratices to and for NOMAR Members. The committee discusses and implements ideas, projects and initiatives that are centered around the preservation of personal health, our environment and natural resources as they pertain to real estate.

In the 9 o’clock hour:

Mardi Gras 2014

NOLA History: Mardi Gras, From the Beginning, by Edward Branley February 10, 2014 in GoNOLA.com

We New Orleanians like to think we are the center of the universe on Mardi Gras. While we are most definitely put on the largest and most fun, free party in North America, the celebration of Fat Tuesday is much older than the city. Read the article!

Read all of Ed Branley in GoNOLA.

Also by Ed Branley:

Brothers of the Sacred Heart in New Orleans (2010)

Maison Blanche Department Stores (2011)

New Orleans: The Canal Streetcar Line (2004)

Legendary Locals of New Orleans (2013)

View them all at Arcadia Publishing!

Also in the 9 o’clock hour:

I Heart Louisiana:

Economically and Environmentally Sustainable Parading. Enter contest at Stay Local

Listen to podcasts of last week’s show:

The Urban Agriculture Hour with NOFFN