{"id":3064,"date":"2013-04-22T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2013-04-25T23:49:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T03:49:45","slug":"solar-rooftops-in-a-new-orleans-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/solar-rooftops-in-a-new-orleans-neighborhood.html","title":{"rendered":"Solar rooftops in a New Orleans neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nWant people to get rooftop solar?\r\nPut solar on rooftops where people can see it.\r\nCities and power companies and even NGOs like Habitat for Humanity\r\ncan help with that.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nAndri Antoniades wrote for Takepart.com 10 November 2012,\r\n\r\nKatrina-Ravaged Neighborhood Reemerges as ‘Largest Solar Housing Development in Southeast’:\r\nThe former St. Thomas Housing Projects are reborn into a square mile of solar-powered homes,<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nThe St. Thomas Housing Project in New Orleans used to be known best\r\nas a high-crime area, until Hurricane Katrina swept it it all away.\r\nBut seven years after the fact, St. Thomas has been reborn as the\r\nmixed-income River Garden Apartments, which has once again gained\r\nnotoriety, but this time as the “largest solar neighborhood in the\r\nSoutheast.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThe River Garden Apartments encompass eight blocks that cover about\r\none square mile of New Orleans. The brightly colored homes are\r\ntopped with solar panels and according to Clean Technica, the\r\ndevelopment is Louisiana’s largest solar project to date.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nAnd also in Oakland, California:\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\nIn order to bridge the gap between some much-needed shelter and\r\nsustainable building practices, California’s PG&E and Habitat for\r\nHumanity are currently building a 12-unit low-income housing\r\ndevelopment which will also be powered by solar energy. The project\r\nis part of PG&E’s Solar Habitat Program, which funds the full cost\r\nof solar PV systems on every Habitat-built house in the area.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nHm, we could do that here.\r\nOver in Brooks County near Quitman,\r\n\r\nthere’s already something almost like that<\/a>.\r\nIn Savannah,\r\n\r\nSustainable Fellwood<\/a>\r\nis even more like that.\r\nThe quickest way to get people to see rooftop solar is possible\r\nis to\r\n\r\nput it on rooftops where everybody can see<\/a>.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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