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Our Water Wise Collective and Neighborhood Champions do so much work in our community to address environmental issues. We are raising funds to disperse to our members. Some have evacuated and some are sheltering in New Orleans without power. Send payments on cash app or pay pal. Scroll to last photo for details. We will post dispersed payments on our stories unless our members ask to remain anonymous. Remain safe 💚

We’re 🌟 thrilled 🌟 to announce that the Water Wise Gulf South Collective is part of the first #Justice40Accelerator cohort! We look forward to working alongside organizations rooted in frontline communities to advance transformative climate justice projects! Visit .justice40accelerator.org to learn more about the #Justice40 Accelerator.

Our Water Wise Neighborhood Champions will be out at the Lower 9th Ward resource fair hosted by @lower9nola on Saturday August 28th from 12-4pm at Oliver Bush Playground (2500 Caffin Avenue)! Come learn about our upcoming Green Infrastructure 101 Workshop on September 25th! 💚

This week the Water Wise Collective got together for the first time in person since the beginning of a COVID. We came together to strategize, set goals, and better define our roles. We are feeling even more connected and ready to continue forward to advance green infrastructure in Black and Brown communities that experience environmental injustices and continuing disinvestment due to structural racism. In the photos we are doing an exercise to create a web of connection through yarn 🧶 by expressing our appreciation of each other ❤️‍🔥 thank you to Jaimie and Sonia from the Institute for Sustainable Communities for leading this powerful retreat. 📷 by: @kimberlydoley

We have officially reached our average rainfall in New Orleans with still 4 months to go until the end of the year! Climate change is contributing to more rainfall in our region. It’s time to get with the program…the green infrastructure program 🌳 💦 This is another one of the Green Infrastructure Challenge Winners! This time we are in Broadmoor at Audrey’s house where a 95 square feet concrete driveway was contributing to more stormwater runoff. @danabrownassociates designed a stormwater driveway lined with a rain garden to manage the stormwater where it falls rather than overwhelm the drainage system. @mastodonte_la completed the projected by removing the concrete, adding a concrete mow strip to help keep the aggregate in place, placed and compacted the #57 limestone aggregate, excavated and planted a rain garden with Louisiana native plants and added a walking path. The walking path is concrete; however, it was intentionally designed with space between the concrete stepping pads to capture the stormwater runoff. In total this project can store up to 1,200 gallons of stormwater, which is about 15 bathtubs full of water. This project was sponsored by the Every Drop Makes a Difference Campaign. #slowtheflow #everydropnola #waterwise

It was a beautiful morning to install a rain garden in New Orleans East 💚 rain gardens help manage rainwater where it falls rather than going to the drainage system.

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