Brad Pitt: Make It Right NOLA green houses
December 3, 2007
Make It Right is a fitting name for a new project to build 150 green homes in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans by next summer. The ultimate goal is to build more than 150 new green homes.
Brad Pitt is attempting to restore one of the neighborhoods most devastated by Hurricane Katrina — infamous as one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the history of the US — with the launch of the Make It Right campaign.
In Louisiana, New Orleans residents of the Lower Ninth Ward suffered unthinkable loss of life and property. 5,000 homes were destroyed. Two years later, many families are still displaced and the rebuilding has been very slow going. That is not right. Making it right is long overdue.
This morning, NBC’s Today Show host Ann Curry interviewed Pitt regarding the Make It Right foundation. Pitt has assembled 13 architects to design the new environmentally-friendly homes, donated $5 million dollars of his money, with another $5 million dollar donation from billionaire Steve Bing, and is now reaching out to the American people to help rebuild the Lower Ninth Ward.
The idea is simple. Pitt calls it an adopt a house campaign. He is asking the wealthy, philanthropic foundations, corporations and church groups to step up and donate to the project. Each green house will cost $150,000 dollars to build. By visiting the Make It Right website, every day people without a great deal of disposable cash can help by adopting a low flush toilet, a solar panel, and other sustainable items for the new house.
Brad Pitt is hoping you will remember this is Christmas — the season of giving.