Waves
of caring people including students
continue to find their way to the region. Working with communities
that are inviting their support, these caring, self-organizing efforts
are incrementally changing lives of people and healing ravaged places.
The Katrina Furniture Project offers new ways of seeing how devastation
can reveal riches, both human and material, and along the way catalyze
our spirits to embrace a changing ethos of community based, participatory
practices and sustainable development.
Whether
working directly on the Katrina Furniture Project or just sharing,
defining and expanding its goals, a growing list of participants
in the rebuilding of the gulf region are contributing whatever they
can and learning
even more along the way.
A committed
group of people
including Brad
Guy, Sergio
Palleroni, Bryan
Bell, Stephen
Goldsmith, Peter
Aeschbacher and others are finding ways to establish neighborhood-based
development opportunities for people in the Gulf Region. Moreover,
the elegant ethos of building from a second harvest of resources,
gathered and threshed during deconstruction or post-disaster, is
a replicable model that holds great promise everywhere.
skill-sets,
toolboxes, and ideas
