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 When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast two years ago on Aug. 29, the Sierra Club had an extensive network of volunteers and staff already living in the area. Many of them faced tremendous personal loss, and yet they immediately began helping people to recover and to rebuild safe and healthy communities. In two years' time the Sierra Club has exposed and forced a resolution to the problem of formaldehyde in emergency housing; worked in community partnerships to ensure that hurricane debris is not dumped on low-income communities and people of color; and assisted residents in rebuilding their homes using green building practices. Read more below. |
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Toxic trailers: Trailers were provided to Katrina
refugees by the federal government. The Sierra Club conducted tests of the
trailer and found that an alarming number of them were contaminated with
formaldehyde, a potential carcinogen.  Read
more. |
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There from the beginning: For a good overview
on post-Katrina New Orleans and the rebuilding efforts undertaken by the Sierra
Club and others in the city's hardest-hit neighborhood,
read The
Nation article, "The
Lower Ninth Battles Back."Read more. |
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Justice for all: The Sierra Club has been working
with the Vietnamese community in New Orleans to demand that tons of toxic Katrina
debris be removed from a landfill near their neighborhood.Read more. |
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Sustainable, affordable: Progress made on Global
Green's Holy Cross Project was feted at
an August 22 event
attended by residents, activists, the press--and Brad Pitt.Read more. |
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Sierra Club EcoCentro columnist Javier Sierra shows how
the responses to Katrina and 9/11 reveal a broken government.EnglishEn espaņol
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