Karen Perl

From Great Lakes Wiki

Watch an interview with Karen Perl from the Great Lakes Wiki cool globes report.

After the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the rebuilding of New Orleans and other Gulf Coast cities offers a chance to get it right. Where global warming may have contributed to destructive storms, a movement is now underway to reshape these cities into showcases for green living. Global Green USA has partnered with Habitat for Humanity and others on the Gulf Coast to build several model green schools and 10,000 affordable, environmentally friendly homes.

Casting New Orleans as her subject, Karen Perl portrays a culture that was once passionately tied to traditions, surviving tragedy and beginning again. With vignettes including landmarks, a funeral procession, and voodoo symbols, Perl, whose own family members survived the devastation in New Orleans, tops her globe with a "healthy" Mississippi, complete with green architecture and returning pelicans.

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Source: Cool Globes site