In the tag to her Today Show interview with Brad Pitt, Ann Curry reported that the actor told her that he and Angelina Jolie "will get married when everyone can" and that marriage should be a right for all.
The focus of the interview was Pitt’s efforts to rebuild New Orleans through the Make It Right Foundation, which is designing and building homes to be to be green and sustainable. The actor has pledged $5 million of his own money to the project, with another $5 million coming from "someone else." But Pitt hopes to make this a national effort:
This is really an adopt a house campaign. I’m asking for foundations, for high network individuals, for church groups, for corporations to come in and adopt a house. $150,000 will get a family back into their homes…
Individuals can participate too. Explains Pitt:
If they come on the website you can adopt a low flush toilet or solar panel, these are all sustainable…That’s my hope, yeah – if you go on and do that, I’m gonna get my dad a tankless water heater – I just spoiled the surprise – but that’s my hope here, it’s a call on the American people to come here during the holiday season – to come to our website, and to help these families get back into their homes.
And seriously, New Orleans is a travel bargain with awesome food, beautiful hotels and a wonderful vibe.
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Don’t Charlize Theron and her b/f have the same arrangement?
Speaking of New Orleans, don’t forget to go see Utah in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 2nd. Go Utes!!
I just really wonder about the viability of the city or if it’s just going to happen again?
The thing about hurricanes and New Orleans is that normal weather patterns over the Gulf keep most big storms well away. Furthermore, the wetlands that used to exist served as speed bumps for storms, knocking them a notch or two to the point where even a weak levee could withstand them. That’s why Obama’s promised to take steps to rebuild those wetlands.
The wetlands have been destroyed primarily by three factors:
1. Levees created by the Corps of Engineers to control the flow of the river cause the marshes to not be replentished with sediment.
2. Deforestation from logging. We used to have a cypress swamp of trees the size of redwoods. These were cut down a long time ago. The remaining trees are small and dying from salt water intrusion.
3. The oil and gas industry which has decimated the marshes with its activities.
If you want to know more there is lots of info at the Lake Ponchartrain Basin Foundation http://www.saveourlake.org/
Our city and state are paying dearly for having provided natural resources to build factories in Ohio and produce oil and gas for the country to fill their tanks and heat their homes.
Please don’t question whether we are sustainable. Ask what port in North America is more vital and has been since before the Louisiana Purchase? What is the value of crops from the midwest when they have to be trucked out instead of put on barges to the Mississippi River. We need the rest of the country and they need us too.
Oh and there are quite a few bargains for those that want to visit. Please come! Our tourisim industry needs all the visitors it can get in this economic environment.
I’m going to NOLA on the 13th. I’ve told my family that we will be blowing our entire holiday wad in New Orleans and the only gift they should expect is a beautifull photo of one of the most uniquely beautiful cities in the world.
It’s the very first vacation that me and husband have gone on since we wed 13 years, and as a citizen of a sister river city (Sacramento), we anticipate being in similar shoes one day.
Mmmm, Commanders Palace with a stroll through the cemetery afterward–the best Valentines Day I ever had! Beignets! Beignets! Muffalettas from Central Market! Luizza’s by the Track for po’boys and (OMG) butternut soup with andouille sausage!
I’ve seen these houses: they are really cool.