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Brad Pitt’s Global Green Home

Brad Pitt’s Global Green Home

Brad Pitt looks over Global Green’s sustainable, low-income home before a milestone celebration in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana on Tuesday. This neighborhood was completely leveled when Hurricane Katrina hit two years ago. (See Part II of this set of pictures here.)

Earlier today, it was announced that Brad will sit down for another exclusive interview with NBC’s Jolie-Pitt family correspondent Ann Curry, airing Wednesday and Thursday on The Today Show.

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267 Lady G
Yeah it wasn’t long was it? It isn’t long before a lot of these critics/haters true colors show. They start out all passive aggressive and then bam here comes the hate. It is one thing to be a die-hard BP fan, another to smear a woman who has done a lot of good with her humanitarian work both in the US and internationally. Both BP and AJ are doing good works. AJ has been a UN Ambassador for many years. Her commitment and help is wide-ranging and has benefited refugees through the world. They are committed partners and they work well as a team in their personal/professional lives. People really should get a grip and move on.

265 Mondo Bongo!
heck all I want is to be close enough to him just for 5 minutes I won’t even touch him I’ll just stare , but he has to talk, I LOVE his voice :-)

Meli–ITA I wish I had your emmail one of the fires was very close my house in Bodrum I have so many pics and it ruined one of the oldest forests, for what, so that people can build more housing and hotels. It is very sad….

Oh Tiger you should listen to Brad:

“For me, I consider myself more a citizen of the world, and I have great pride as I sit up here with all the people from different cultures, and know that we all came together.”

262 tiger : 08/21/2007 at 6:03 pm

Well, one now knows how warped your mind is. Angelina has never ever said that she hates her country, never ever, not once. You just pulled that lie about Angelina out of the air because you couldn’t stop yourself from going negative on Angelina. No proof was offered to support that particular lie about Angelina because none exists. Just another example of a liar talking about Angelina.

Both Brad and Angelina love their country, they both care for others besides themselves, and they both do what they care to alleviate some of the terrible conditions fellow humans are faced with daily. BOTH OF THEM ARE GOOD CARING PEOPLE.

102 QQQQ

4 Q I agree with you. Most government officals, and others are sitting on their asses waiting for the mother ship to come and bring them something. I do believe local citizens were on the board. I remember seeing pictures and reading articles. No someone is doing something and here they come out of the woodwork with their negative comments. The design losers are saying their designs were better. Sounds like sour grapes to me. I honestly believe once people see how much money they can save on electric, water and heating they will start to appreciate the houses. Also once the project is finished and trees are planted and sidwalks are in it will look better. Those old shotguns houses were not energy efficient. Everyone can ***** and complain. Few will step up to the plate and try to help. Now those who want to bash Angie and Brad have a new topic. But I bet they/he will receive more praise from enlighted and informed people. And also from those residents who will be lucky enough to receive a money, and energy saving house than those who want to find fault. Hell if people don’t like it, sell/give me one. During the winter when your heating bill is cut by 75% they will sing the praises of this modern design. If you don’t do anything you don’t hear complaints, but you don’t receive praise either. Take a risk and sure as hell you will recieve both. I am glad he took the risk. He will be blessed. He is blessed. Peace. :lol:

Goodnight everyone.Time for me to go.Take care.

tiger : 08/21/2007 at 6:03 pm

Pls leave Angie alone, go worship your idol Anison.Jen is doing soooo much for America (not)

You take any oppurtunity to abuse Angie. What has she done to you?

269 T&L : 08/21/2007 at 6:07 pm

Many thanks, had not seen that. Can’t wait to see AOJJ.

269 T&L
Thanks for the information. I am looking forward to seeing Jesse James. It looks like an interesting Movie, moody and full of atmosphere. Plus I like all genres of Movies and this western should be different.

JOLIE PITTS ARE GOOD CARIING PEOPLE. GOD BLESS THEM.
JOLIE PITTS ARE GOOD CARIING PEOPLE. GOD BLESS THEM.
JOLIE PITTS ARE GOOD CARIING PEOPLE. GOD BLESS THEM.
JOLIE PITTS ARE GOOD CARIING PEOPLE. GOD BLESS THEM.

goodnight Meli.

T&L thanks for the article, I cannot wait to see this movie..

262 tiger : 08/21/2007 at 6:03 pm
Brad doesn’t get trash because he really cares, angelina I don’t know. Brad works for america, angelina hates her own country.

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Are you really as stupid as you sound? Brad cared so much he never got involved with this kind of work until he met Angelina. You are proud of him now, but he wasted seven years of his life being shallow and very hollywood with his shallow ex wife that you people were so in love with fake golden couple.

Angelina is involved with many charities here that are private, her role with UN gets more press because that is the purpose. Ignorant Brad fans like you scare me more than the haters. Angelina made a man out of Brad and gave him substance, he gets to hobnob with world leaders the way he could never before.

So next time before you write your nonsense, try thinking, and if you are a Brad fan, you should be thanking Angelina for giving his life purpose. You don’t have to bash Angelina to make Brad look good considering every one knows, even Jon Stewart made a joke of how Angelina has changed Brad Pitt.

you people are unbelievable, you really are!!

Aww what is the matter, is she feeling threatened that Brad is stealing her light?

I didn’t make the comment in 262 but you people are so quick to attack another. It’s your game, I know, but honestly, I think there are more important issues to discuss than how much the “celebrity” cares for the issues they stand for. If they have to convince people they care, takes a bit of air outta their ballon.

Coco has on the same swim suit as Z.

I love how Brad looks when he has a hammer in his hands. He really seems to be in his element. Maybe he should be a building contractor. He is so much finer now than when he was youer and part of the golden couple. He is like a good wine, better with age. And for those who said he wasn’t smart, eat your words suckers. He got Home Depot to get on board with this idea. The tabs and the haters will lose their sh@t behind this latest accomplishment. The jolie/pitts cannot be pegged into one slot. They are everywhere helping. A historic building in Chicago. New housing in New Orleans. Name a couple to does as much and still gets trashed. But they don’t stop. They keep giving, and giving, and giving. As someone upthread said when was the last time photographers were there covering housing, and the lack of it. Keep the focus on NO Brad. Peace.

287fan “Are you really as stupid as you sound?”

No, but I believe you are!!

Love the Jollie-pitts !

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Additonal information about BP visit and pictures at link

By Russell McCulley

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Calling Hurricane Katrina a “man-made disaster,” actor Brad Pitt said on Tuesday he remains committed to helping the city recover from the storm.

Nearly two years after the August 29, 2005 hurricane, the “Ocean’s Thirteen” star said he was at times dismayed by the pace of recovery in New Orleans, where he and partner Angelina Jolie own an elegant townhouse in the historic French Quarter.

Pitt was in the Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood to tour an ecologically sustainable single-family home being built by Global Green USA, an environmental group he backs.

The actor praised the house in the Holy Cross area of the ward as a “small victory” for efforts to rebuild the city, but said, “it’s hard to find an overall victory when you see how slowly everything is still moving. And Katrina was a man-made disaster. This house is a man-made solution.”

Pitt said the city’s flood-protection defenses must be restored before displaced residents feel confident enough to rebuild.

“We’ve got to push to get these levees taken care of in the correct fashion,” he told reporters at a news conference in the hurricane-ravaged working class neighborhood.

The house that Pitt toured, loosely modeled on the distinctive New Orleans “shotgun” style of long, narrow homes, will generate almost all its electricity from 28 roof-mounted solar panels, said Global Green USA president Matt Petersen

Global Green hopes to use the house, which should be completed this fall, as a prototype for the neighborhood. Built not far from the banks of the Mississippi River and raised by three feet on concrete pilings, it is above sea level.

Some in the area, which was not as badly flooded as others in the city, are rebuilding. But a lack of funds have kept most from starting fresh.

Levee repairs are ongoing and engineers differ over how the new levees will fare in a major storm.

The environmental group has pledged to create a residential community of “green” structures, including an 18-unit, low-income apartment building near the Mississippi.

Pitt, 43, said the redevelopment project could help encourage people whose homes were destroyed in the storm to return and rebuild in a more environmentally conscious fashion.

“We knew we couldn’t bring back the families and friends that were lost, bring back the heirlooms, the pictures,” Pitt said. “But maybe, in the process of rebuilding, we could build something smarter, and create a better way of life for those people who live here.”

© Reuters 2007. All Rights Reserved.

288 tiger : 08/21/2007 at 6:27 pm
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What?!… Working in helping others has nothing to do with the being in “light”… You are insulting, Brad and Angelina and their work.

hijacking @ 08/21/2007 at 6:36 pm

tiger said that wasn’t her posting, give it a rest,

290 SISI : 08/21/2007 at 6:29 pm

Thanks for the great video. Loved hearing Brad saying “and as a father”. He revels in fatherhood, and Angelina understood just how important children were to him. It took the love of a good woman to make him all the man he was supposed to be.

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