Morning Gathering 8:00
8:30 - 12:00
[8:00 - 8:30] Drive to Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church
1630 Simon Bolivar Ave, New Orleans, LA 70113[8:30 - 10:00] Empowering Communities Across Nola to Thrive
Discussion | Chuck Morse, Executive Director Thrive Nola[10:00 - 10:30] Drive to Paul Habans Charter School
3501 Seine St, New Orleans, LA 70114[10:30 - 11:45] Habans Stormwater and Nature Center
Discussion | Bryant Dixon & Grace Vogel, Sr. City Planners SWBNO and Spackman Mossop Michaels (SMM), an international landscape architecture firm in New Orleans[11:45 - 12:00] Drive to Loyola
Lunch 12:00 - 1:00
1:00 - 3:45
[1:00 - 1:45] Energizer & Design Thinking
[1:45 - 2:45] Group Work
[2:45 - 3:45] Identifying Themes of GI Education & Energizer
Overview 3:45 - 4:00
Chuck Morse, Executive Director of Thrive Nola, spoke to us about Thrive's outreach and the way it helps with water issues in Nola. Specifically through the way they equip participants to launch new careers in Green Infrastructure and Stormwater Management (Thrive Works Green).
We then went to Paul Habans Charter School that is mid-construction of a Stormwater and Nature Center green infrastructure built to mitigate the flooding from heavy rain water. This was made possible as a result of the Sewerage and Water Board’s Green Infrastructure Grants Program that Habans and Spackman Mossop Michaels (SMM), an international landscape architecture firm, were awarded.