Hello readers. As I mentioned before, Consciously Rebuilding is making moves. Here is guest blogger, Bradley Bowers' account of a community "Think Tank" session on using NOLA national parks for meaningful community and economic development.
With all the devastation that has struck New Orleans and her neighboring parishes hope for a wonderful future remains constant. I recently had the chance to participate in a creative brainstorm session sponsored by the George Wright Society-- a society dedicated to the preservation of park lands and natural areas-- and hosted by the National Parks Service. To me this meeting of creative minds, there were participants from the film industry, the Department of Agriculture and Organic Farmers engaging and helping solve the issues that currently threaten the culture and the way of life of New Orleans and the people of Louisiana. And of course I was there representing YB Green. The goal of this session was to devise program schedule for George Wright Society's conference in 2011. The programs we devise would actively engage the the scientists in the culture and the environments of New Orleans while exposing them to the reality of a post-Katrina New Orleans, and by that time a post-Oil Spill New Orleans. I am excited by this event for many reasons but mainly because it gives the world outside of New Orleans an opportunity to contribute and help with the healing and reformation process. This event will draw great minds from around the globe and charge them with the tasks that we (the community of New Orleans) find pertinent and relevant. I can think of no better way to engage and empower a city than to listen and then implement. I am anxious and excited to see what the next step will be in the saga of Re-Building New Orleans. ----Bradley Bowers, BFA, Artist, Design Management and Creative Services
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