Earlier this year, I attended a seminar promoted by the Louisiana Chapter of the USGBC with guest speaker John Moore from the New Orleans Office of Environmental Affairs. Under the Nagin administration, this office has taken a bit of a beating, getting separeted and consolidated from other departments so often…they haven’t even had time to finish their website!
The election of Mitch Landrieu as Mayor of New Orleans shows promise for this department, and is good news for any New Orleanian interested in the green building industry.
Glassboth.org, a neat web organization that publishes candidates views on certain issues, had a survey filled out for Mitch during the election. Here are his answers on Environmental and Sustainability issues.
Mitch supports:
- City-funded recycling program
- Expanding the role of the City’s Office of Environmental Affairs to include issues of sustainability
- Supporting municipal carbon footprint regulations to control local CO2 emissions
- Requiring all public buildings to meet LEED Standards
- Implementation of the City’s plan for sustainable redevelopment called GreenNola
All good news for Mr. Moore and the team working on GoGreenNola.com. And for Louisiana companies who build green.
