The Accidental Curator

Get Green with Brad

Brad Pitt's new environmental pet project, "Make It Right" (MIR), assembled a team of fourteen world-renowned architecture firms from across the globe to fabricate affordable and sustainable homes for the victims of hurricane Katrina. 150 such homes are slated to be built for low-income residents of New Orleans most devastated quarter, the Lower 9th Ward. Pitt hopes that the MIR project will encourage other architectural firms to help rebuild the Big Easy.

http://makeitrightnola.org/index.php

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/12/more_on_brad_pi.php

The Beautiful Arctic

LIMA (Land Image Mosaic of Antarctica) has just released new high definition images of Antarctica. The coldest piece of real estate on the planet has recently been hotly contested by key global players like Argentina, Chile and the United Kingdom as they vie for the black gold that could be sleeping underneath Antarctica's icy exterior. This old fashioned land grab comes at a time when much of the land is compromised and scientists warn that the Arctic could seem a little less chilly as of late due to climate change, tough times for a region that contains 90 percent of the worlds ice. LIMA hopes that images like this one along with on going scientific polar research will help the general public to visualize the climate changes in Antarctica's southernmost environment as well as highlight the beauty of this threatened land.

http://lima.usgs.gov/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article2859366.ece