Slow your Flow! Green landscapes help to: 1) Slow the flow of rain drainage; 2) Curb street flooding; and 3) Restore our water table

When it rains, it pours in New Orleans. Did you know Louisiana is one of the rainiest states in the country? And climate change means more rain is coming.

Our beautiful, bowl-shaped city needs better practices to manage all the water that inundates our city in a storm.

We believe the answer lies in training up indigenous leaders to find and build solutions.

New Orleans is at the forefront of climate change. When we get a major rain event, our streets flood and our property is damaged. We are working to alleviate the impact of stormwater by teaching Black, Indigenous, and people of color to install better, green infrastructure.

At this NOEW in your Neighborhood event, Thrive New Orleans will share (1) how we train up a local workforce to install green landscaping and (2) how we develop small business’ capacity to win contracts in green infrastructure.

Watch how we roll. We’re going to walk the walk while we talk the talk. We’ll be doing a live demo of a green landscape installation — all at our training center in the 9th Ward’s Desire neighborhood.