Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Save Nola goes Global
Posted by Jeanne Foster on Tue, Oct 2, 2007 at 11:40 PM
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New Orleans' own Save NOLA has partnered with Global Green USA to raise funds for the greening of affordable and sustainable housing in New Orleans, and their tees have made their way to some famous faces. Last month, actor Brad Pitt received a Save NOLA, Think Green organic tee. And this week, Mikhail Gorbachev will receive one as he attends the Green Cross International (GCI) General Assembly being held in New Orleans.
Like a European
Posted by Sarah Andert on Tue, Oct 2, 2007 at 3:55 PM
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In his 19th century essay, The Painter of Modern Life, French poet, novelist and critic Charles Baudelaire exalted the life of the flaneur— the idle dawdler, the peripatetic ‘man of the crowd,’ for whom immersion in daily city life provided the utmost pleasure. For the flaneur, he said, a “passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite.”
Now whether or not the population of New Orleans qualifies as a ‘multitude’ at the moment is debatable, but there certainly is an
