In the Golden Afternoon: Big Easy Magazine chats with the New Orleans Botanical Garden’s Paul Soniat

December 16, 2018

We have volunteers here who learn in the garden and greenhouse, who learn how to propagate plants, grow from seeds, and grow from cuttings. A lot of people who garden are self-taught. The green thumb is more about paying attention to things. If you continually plant something and it just dies, well then you’re not planting it right (laughs). You just get out there and do it, you know?


New Orleans Continues Christmas Tree Recycle for Coastal Restoration

December 14, 2018

On Friday, Mayor Latoya Cantrell issued a statement reminding residents that New Orleans will continue to recycle Christmas trees to promote wetland restoration and to protect Louisiana’s coast. Last year, more than 8,000 trees were collected across Orleans Parish. They were then airlifted by the National Guard and placed into the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge […]


Louisiana Court Rules ETP Can Build on Land without Owners’ Consent

December 9, 2018

On Thursday, December 6th,  Louisiana Judge Keith Comeaux of the 16th judicial district court ruled that Energy Transfer Partners (ETP, also known as Energy Transfer Equity,)  had the right to seize privately held-land in order to continue construction of the controversial Bayou Bridge pipeline through the Atchafalaya Basin. The lawsuit was brought to court after […]


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