For two weeks this March, hundreds of students and young professionals will converge on New Orleans - bringing their energy and ideas to help the people of the Lower 9 revitalize their community. They are architects, engineers, planners, landscape architects, interior designers and contractors who'll work hand in hand with neighborhood residents on their historic houses, parks, playgrounds and community centers. Visit the Historic Green website to donate or volunteer: Historic Green

Historic Green is an unprecedented opportunity to integrate sustainable practices with preservation of a place. To increase energy efficiency. To enhance its quality of life, housing and transportation. To protect the wetlands. To help create the nation's first carbon-neutral community.

GREEN SPACES
1. Volunteers will work with Holy Cross residents to protect and restore a community playground's play equipment, grounds, and access.
2. Garden construction and raingarden demonstrations in cooperation with Common Ground, Replant New Orleans, and others.
3. Design-Build services for a neighborhood community garden including compost bins, raised planters, walkways, tool-storage, and more.
4. Bayou restoration & access projects in cooperation with the Sierra Club and several university groups. Volunteers will work to improve a bayou access path, seal a viewing platform, and complete the construction of the viewing platform's designed railing.