Celebrity Endorsed Low-cost HousingRetrieved by Pat Darnell, Bob Villa, and the Ghost of Louis Sullivan
Hey, Brad old boy; I promise not to say anything NE
GATIVE about your housebuilding efforts, if you will come down here and pay off my mortgage, and build me an addition? Fair enough?
And, if you find time to do that, I promise to give you free publicity in my middle-ground-rooted, third-coast, blog-site MooPig Wisdom.
Besides, I lost everything in a flood once; during Hurricane Allison. Do I qualify?
Right now, we are thinking that you might want to provide more Moo and less Pig in your efforts to be a land developer tycoon. Here's to looking forward to hearing from you soon. We think we and you would make another perfect marriage.
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Story that follows: A Method by which Philanderers can become Philanthropists ::
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Brad Pitt gives Katrina update at Clinton meeting
Sept. 24, 2009, 6:39 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) -- The average electric bill for one of the
energy-efficient homes built in New Orleans by Brad Pitt's
Make It Right foundation is $35 a month, the actor said Thursday during an update on the project at the
Clinton Global Initiative.
The cost of building the homes also is dropping. And by the time all
150 promised homes are completed, the cost will be comparable to standard buildings, Pitt said.
"I don't know how we build any other way anywhere else," he said. "We can no longer tell ourselves that implementing this technology is too complex a problem because it's just been proven on this little spot on the map."Pitt started the foundation in 2007. The program focuses home construction in a section of New Orleans heavily damaged when
Hurricane Katrina struck in August 2005. The homes are being built with features including
rooftop solar panels and
energy-efficient appliances to help reduce electricity consumption.
The
Clinton Global Initiative, an annual event started by former
President Bill Clinton, brings together the public and private sector to discuss solutions to problems in four areas — climate change, poverty, global health and education.
At an afternoon panel discussing education,
Queen Rania of Jordan said it was an evergreen subject in political campaigns but one that loses priority once politicians are in office because there often isn't any immediate political gain.
"The benefits of education sometimes don't fit in with the political cycle because you reap the benefits way down the line," she [Queen Rania of Jordan] said. "What we need to do is realize that sense of urgency when it comes to education, because education is a matter of life and death."
She [Queen Rania of Jordan] also emphasized the importance of the quality of education, saying that while educational enrollment was high in the Middle East, there hasn't been enough focus on teaching young people the skills to get them through life.
"Take young people who are opportunity starved, and there is political conflict around them, and that makes a very dangerous social mix. As you all know, what happens in the Middle East, does not stay in the Middle East," she [Queen Rania of Jordan] said. "Critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, those kinds of skills are extremely important to empower our young people."
Among those joining the queen on the panel was
U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, who referred to her own history as the first in her family to go to college in talking about the need for both government and private investment in expanding educational opportunities.
"I was the first one to go to college and it wasn't because my parents could afford it, it was because we have the Pell grant program, we have programs that help to provide assistance," Solis said. "Those programs work and it's a good investment in our young people."
Attendees at the
Clinton Global Initiative are expected to commit to steps they will take to work on global problems. Those who don't follow through on their commitments won't be allowed to return to subsequent events.
Summary:
Brad Pitt gives Katrina update at Clinton meeting
Sept. 24, 2009, 8:46 AM EST
Brad Pitt gives Katrina update at Clinton Global Initiative; other panels focus on education____________
Note to Brad: Now see how nice I can be? So remember my little offer if you bring your philanthropic self here, you will be compensated by how you changed peoples' lives.
Here's a taste of how it goes down if you ignore us Middle-Americans MooPigsters:
"In effort to redeem some social value in his dull and misguided life... Brad Pitt sides with
Bill Clinton to make a difference in a place where seldom is provided clear title to any parcel of land. Yet this team can "git 'er done" by some freakish loophole in World Government tactics held together by some sort of comical glue made by United Nations in session ... huh?
... Loopholes that allow philanthropists' claim to suburban lots in states-of-disrepair within New Orleans' wards ?... by politicians for some sort of extravagant, builder's-fest ..."
... Houses that in the next hurricane on the Third-Coast [we predict] all felled like
Second-Pig's house of sticks "because some idiot forgot the wind-bracing when they were framing the walls out... and solar panels flew off the structures like deadly wings of airliners crashing into nuclear electric power plants ..." [etcetra, etcetra, etcetra]
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WHAT's YOUR VERDICT?
You get my drift, Brad, eh? All it really takes is a camera, and a girl in a dress, nothing fancy. [pdaf]
