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Brad Pitt is in New Orleans helping to promote a sustainable design competition for the area of New Orleans. He is co-sponsoring the competition along with Global Green USA.
Sorry, but photo blurred for confidentiality. Read more info about the competition after the jump.
- Doobybrain
From Global Green USA:
On behalf Global Green USA’s board of directors and competition jury chair Brad Pitt, welcome to the Sustainable Design Competition for New Orleans – Advancing the Green Rebuilding of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast!
This competition combines Global Green USA’s commitment to green affordable housing, sustainable cities, and climate solutions that work for communities, with Brad Pitt’s passion for intelligent architecture. The competition is a central component of Global Green USA’s sustainable rebuilding initiative for New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, which began 10 days after the landfall of Hurricane Katrina. The idea for the competition developed from a conversation between Brad Pitt and myself at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York City in September 2005.
This design competition is truly an opportunity to give back to New Orleans, the birthplace of great culture, music, food, and architecture. It is our goal that green design, clean energy and healthy building be central to the rebuilding of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Using culturally, environmentally and climactically appropriate designs, materials and strategies, we hope the submissions to this competition will use great creativity and offer powerful ideas to help achieve this goal.
Global Green USA’s “Healthy Homes and Smart Neighborhoods Response Team” initiative for New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region is an outgrowth of the organization’s decade-long commitment to improving the lives of low-income families through greening affordable housing, creating sustainable neighborhoods, and advancing climate solutions that work for communities. In short, focusing on community solutions that address two of our greatest global challenges: climate change, and poverty.
Global Green USA’s goals include: greening 10,000 homes (via policy incentives through tax credit financing and guidelines developed with organizations such as Habitat for Humanity); educating the public and professionals about green and healthy building (via our New Orleans resource center, education, and workshops); encouraging the greening schools and places of worship. With support from the Home Depot Foundation, Jerry and Ann Moss, and dozens of individuals (including staff members of Global Green USA), we opened a New Orleans’ office in February and a Green Building Resource Center in May. The office and center were established also in part to serve as a design collective – with a front end education center for the public and professionals with nearly museum quality display of products and systems that are green, of good design, and regionally available — to help build the green building expertise of the local professional community. The competition will help advance this goal.
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Competition sponsors Global Green and Brad Pitt have as their goal the generation of ideas for sustainable redevelopment in New Orleans, redevelopment that will encourage livable cities everywhere and discourage the consumption of non-renewable resources; redevelopment that will help lower their dependence on fossil fuels and their byproducts; redevelopment that will lead New Orleans to a position of prominence in the area of sustainable development and thus help recapture its reputation as a place of innovation and leadership.
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And I want to add… if BP gave that part to JA, he would still get criticized for it. ‘Oh, he’s trying to make things up to Jen because he did her wrong…’ ‘But she’s a TV actress with a lousy box office record… not a wise producing move…’ ‘Oh, he’s trying to lay groundwork for a reconciliation…’ I could go on with this bullshit!
OK…WOW…Brad is smokin!…True love and fatherhood are being very good to him…he looks so mature and throughly masculine. I am praying for the day when he and Angie will appear on the red carpet together…if they show up, everyone else will just have to go home because the gorgeosity will have arrived…
One more thing…I think we should be respectful of the differing opinions of others on this site…even Angie who no doubt has strong views about certain things prefers not to broadcast her political views and malign others…I think all of us can do the same and show the same restraint and respect…
Marianne Pearl said on the TODAY interview that Brad Pitt was the one who convinced her to sell the movie rights. # 77 | ROB is LIAR ———————are all of you so naive as to not think that any offical statements are the "party line" I mean, c’mon. At this point, you don’t think that Mariane Pearl is going to say "dang, I wish Lara Croft didn’t want to pretend to be me. why couldn’t they hire Halle Berry? Or someone who is not so well-tabloid-known?" Sheesh. You fngurls are so naive. Intern for a PR firm for a few days–you’ll figure it out PDQ…..well, maybe the brighter ones among you. # 209 | Rob is Right |=============================Sorry boo, but unlike X fans, most people have minds of there own, as much as this woman has gone through, wrote a book, etc.. I am sure she has NO problem speaking her mind, she is a grown women, and seemingly very intelligent. Her and Angelina have become good friends, and Her son and Maddox are friends and playmates. She went to Namibia to visit Angelina when Ang was there having her baby, They have things in common, the The X WILL NEVER COMPREHEND, BECAUSE SHE IS SO VERY VERY SELFISH. Marianne Pearl, is happy with the choice for Angelina Jolie to play the part, because they are both careing consiouse people Unlike X.
# 221 | piper, with a low -ITA with you, the haters were complaining that AJ looks nothing like MP, but they think JA is?….wth, poor AJ, once again she is being blame for stealing JA’s role?…now wtf, …what if HB got the role?…I wonder if anyone would complaint that HB stole the role from JA?…a bunch of hypocrites.
# 105 | Be sane Preach…..I just keep thinking of all the great HW couples who worked together in some fashion or another such asBogie/BacallShearer/ThalbergBeatty/BeningCassavetes/RowlandOssie Davis Jr/Ruby Dee Tracy/Heburn………..and nothing but death has split any of them up.jpf
Jolie scores ‘Mighty’ roleAngelina Jolie didn’t exactly steal Brad Pitt away from Jennifer Aniston. Remember? He walked away — and willingly.But now Jolie, 31, has nabbed the role of Mariane Pearl — widow of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl — in a movie Aniston, 37, was once on board with.Pitt, 42, will produce “A Mighty Heart,” which is Mariane Pearl’s “agonizing account of her husband’s 2002 kidnapping by Pakistani militants who later broadcast his execution on the Internet,” reports the New York Daily News.Pitt retained the rights to the film after splitting up the Plan B production company he co-owned with Aniston pre-divorce.“I am delighted that Angelina Jolie will be playing my role in the adaptation of my book,” Mariane Pearl said. “I deeply admire her work and what she is committed to.”
Hmmm. Rob is the next Stephen Huvane. # 214 | anon ============================LOL
Could we please stop talking about Jen! Why on every Brad/Angie post are there more posts about Jen. Everyone on this site (especially the Angie fans) are obsessed with her. They have been seperated now for a long time. Jen and Brad have both moved on. Brad is happy and Jen is happy - end of story. Part of me thinks that it is because Angie and Brad are not that interesting if there is no Jen in the picture. For example if Jen wasn’t mentioned on this board there would only be a few posts about Angie and Brad. Not much to say. A lot of the 2,000+ posts on some are about Jennifer. Take her away and there are hardly any posts. I challenge you to only post about Brad/Angie. I know that you cannot do this it will be impossible as there is nothing to say once you can’t talk about Jennifer. And to those who say they are only replying to the Angie haters. You really don’t think that they feel that way do you. They just come here and post because you react. Kind of like kids in school poking each other to get a reaction. And boy do you get a reaction on this board. It is kind of fun to play with you guys. It’s pretty easy to say certain things and know exactly how you are going to react. I get a kick out of it. Think you can’t talk about Jennifer? No way you guys can’t stop yourselves because she is so interesting. Take her away and it’s no fun anymore.On the role. Is the lady who Jolie will protray not have darker skin? Would Halle Berry have been a better choice? She has won and Oscar and does roles well. Just wondering.
# 221 | piper, with a low | - ITA with you everything you said. Great Post.# 222 | piper, with a low | - Well Said
Angelina Jolie to Star in ‘A Mighty Heart’Film Based on Daniel Pearl’s LifeHOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Paramount Vantage will produce "A Mighty Heart" based on the book "A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life And Death Of My Husband Danny Pearl" by Mariane Pearl and Sarah Crichton.The film will star Academy Award Winner Angelina Jolie as Mariane Pearl and will be directed by Michael Winterbottom ("Welcome To Sarajevo," "24 Hour Party People"). Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner of Plan B, Andrew Eaton and Revolution Films will produce.
# 230 | A Jen Fan | Dream on…. Jen interesting …. i tanned today, spa today, smoked today…. interesting indeed…
# 230 A Jen Fan–This is a BAMZS thread, so you might not want to be here. And if we feel like mentioning JA we do.
LMAO…you guys I am soooo loving the dumb @ss fanistons who are infiltrating the boards and piping up with their ‘research,’ if anything it only solidifies what a true idiot Aniston is, and how Brad would NEVER have consented to casting her sit-com hack behind in the role. Ahahahaha. This is so entertaining. Just forget it fanistons, Angie has been cast, the movie is a done deal - don’t b*tch about something that you know wasn’t a possibility to begin with…comparing Aniston to Angelina, is like comparing a velvet painting of a dog w/ big eyes, to the Mona Lisa.I love the bolded ‘research,’ about Brad behind the scenes of MAMZ (he became her protector and advocate), and that proves what???? That they were schtupping? If that’s the only evidence these people have of infidelity, they are sicker than I thought. Brad became Angelina’s friend, and he hers - they grew to love and respect each other…the fact that they did NOT have a physical relationship and grew so close so fast, tells me that what they had was genuine, real and decent. I think that’s what you haters can’t stand most of all - they started w/ respect and friendship and caring…something that Jen couldn’t even compete with on that level. When the friendship and respect is gone in a marriage, as there’s was - it’s toast. They had been DONE for years. Aniston is just a BIG FAT LIAR who created ‘the triangle,’ to get more publicity for her sit-com tv hack self.
# 212 | jojo |No "might" about it Baby! The X is sooooo distraught over nearing 40, ageing really badly and losing her “HW position”, well hell? What can I say? However, don’t even compare her to CC, she is ok, nice lil daughter and all! (That Wench however, gave my Bradley/Daddy Baby the cold shoulder when he was just trying to be nice to her one day, say "hello" and buy her a drink! hhhmmppfffff "Friends" in our circle say she is a complete dishcloth & "Rumour Has It" she is just as washed up & dried out as the X and her other "Friends With Money"!!!) anyways, meanwhile, the X has totally lost the plot!!! She is deranged/"Derailed" & sooooo not the "Good Girl" America thinks she is! Her ass is sooooo insane & just plain ‘grass’ in this Town. Thank God for "The Break Up" for Brad/Daddy and I hardly know what to do anymore? siggghhhhhh# 216 | Estelle |Goodmorning to you too Estelle…ahem….but…ya know like? I do know Brad’s movement’s considering we are joined at the hip’n'all & he is my lil "slush/hush puppy"!!! I know exactly what that Ann C is up to. She is a gonna try and sort this latest "pity party" by the X for us. God Bless AC, I luv her…but ya knew that already!!! ":)Cheers Mateys!!! ":)
# 176 | Stella But why are you here? You do realize you made a concious choice to come into this thread, and according to your very LOUD post, you’ve been keeping tabs on who’s here, when they are, and what they’re discussing. Are you with the FBI? CIA? HS? IRS? What business is it that you have with anyone here other than trying to pretend you have better things to do, but it’s your duty to police this board first. A little advice……"it’s better to be thought a fool and keep your mouth shut, than to open it and remove all doubt."jpf
Thanks for the new thread. Angie will be fantastic in this role, not only because she is a great actress, but because she is also a friend of MP, and will try to ensure that the story is told to show the great love that MP shared with Danny. As for those idiots who think that the X could have done this role, well, all I can say is ‘thank God not everyone took the Pity Party train to Plainnifer.’ ‘Rumor Has It that the train ‘Derailed.’
# 215 | kidi Thank you for clearing that up. I went to the other thread but it’s like wading through the debris of a tsunami aftermath, I have been unable to read all. It’s such a shame though that we kept attacking each other out. We have a good thing going in this site, the camaraderie developed, witty and intelligent exchange of opinions and a mutual admiration for this truly amazing couple. Maybe we should stick to that and shy away from highly explosive political issues/opinions re: democrat / republican. Two topics that would spark war and bloodshed : war and politics. Lol I forgot. Make that three topics, add the Brangelina phenomenon. Well, the latter at least will wage their battles on magazines/ dailies/ and online blogs and sites. I take comfort on that.I still don’t "get" the Dubya nickname. I thought it was a slang for "Doubt Ya". Hence, Dubya.
Cliniqua, you are my hero girl - I bow to you. Where did these people come from, did Aniston hire them!!!! Also, I just watched that MSNBC crap… Oh, I am so furious!!!
Two topics that would spark war and bloodshed : religion and politics
# 230 | A Jen Fan"Could we please stop talking about Jen! Why on every Brad/Angie post are there more posts about Jen. " Last I checked, this is a free blog and short of profanity or racist comments, everyone is allowed to make any comments. If we want to talk about JA, if only to make fun of her, so what? Are you now the Jennifer police? There are other sites that have discussion boards solely for wishing evil on Brad and Angelina — so I think we on JustJared are entitled to make fun of JA. Turn about is fair play.
# 236 | cycloneblondie -love all your post this morning, how is your hush puppy?…LOL,
# 240 | CCCC | I watched that MSNB video also, these people don’t even realize what a dis-service they do to the public…The Facts don’t matter them…. They kept repeating that she got the house and he got the co. (Wrong)
http://www.hellomagazine.com/vote/mostattractivewoman/month/index.html?presentar=resultado&reciente=falsemaniston is catching up. Vote for kate.
‘Rumor Has It that the train ‘Derailed.’# 238 | mrs smith LOL…good one# 231 | Alexanderina -good morning girl friend, how are you today? busy?….the trolls are out again…LOL, but we have CB, Cliniqua, 4Q, Mrs. Smith and OC at the helms today…they are doing great so far, for me, I have a few interview for discovery this afternoon. Short and Simple, TGIF for sure…
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