Topic: Hurricane Katrina

It's Never Been This Hard

For a nimble diving company based in Louisiana, Hurricane Katrina posed enormous challenges--and offered huge opportunity.READ»

Brad Pitt's Foundation Unveils Floating Home That Rises Up (and Away) in Floods

It's inevitable that a Katrina-style hurricane will strike again. But maybe this time we should be prepared to go with the flow--literally. Brad Pitt's Make it Right Foundation unveiled today the Float House, a home that can break ...READ»

You've Been Warned

One of the biggest frustrations involving the Hurricane Katrina debacle is the fact that doom-sayers -- loaded with scientifically sound data -- had warned of this catastrophe years ago. Yet, despite a detailed, scarily prophetic ...READ»

Harsh Reality

It isn't easy talking about innovation strategies or customer relations when people are suffering in New Orleans and one of our oldest cities is facing irreparable damage. Still, it wouldn't be out of line to direct you to CNN's ...READ»

Blogging Hurricane Relief

The devastation Hurricane Katrina has wrought has been overwhelming and difficult to process. I'm sure many of you out there feel powerless to do anything to help. Kudos then to Strengthen the Good for its efforts to harness the ...READ»

Rebuilding New Orleans: Ten Coolest Innovators

Three years after Katrina, the nation's most expensive hurricane, which cost insurers an estimated $44 billion, came Gustav. As if New Orleans needed its rebuilding project to get any harder. And yet, there’s hope. To underscore how far the city has come since 2005, alldaybuffet, a group of creative professionals focused on social innovation, created the New Orleans 100, a list of projects that are bringing new creative energy, attracting tourism, rebuilding homes, overhauling the educational system, and stimulating economic activity. Here are 10 of the most innovative ventures.READ»

• 10 Coolest Innovators Rebuilding New Orleans

It's Never Been This Hard

For a nimble diving company based in Louisiana, Hurricane Katrina posed enormous challenges--and offered huge opportunity.READ»

Tracking 10 Hurricane Stories Across the Web

It's hurricane season, and that means freakish weather even thousands of miles from the eye of a storm. Trace back the ripple effects of hurricanes, and you'll find a lot more than just rainy days. Just a few degrees away from Katrina ...READ»

First Response Team: Disaster Relief Fund...pay it forward today !!!

Our fellow Americans in the Midwest need our help. This is a bigger disaster than Hurricane Katrina and will affect all of us at some point do to higher costs for corn which is a key ingredient for many things you buy at the store. ...READ»

The Storm After the Storm

Tulane University President Scott Cowen was at the tail end of a respected career when Katrina hit. The hurricane almost destroyed his institution--and gave him the chance to reinvent it.READ»

Take a Hike Ike and Get to Work

Interviewers and entrepreneurs often ask me the same question. What’s the most common trait between successful rock stars and successful entrepreneurs? I know they all wish I had a silver bullet, a magic fix and ...READ»

Thursday is Careday

This Thurday marks the launch of Caredays, a monthlong service-stravaganza facilitated by the Center for Companies that Care. Caredays is an annual, national initiative to engage individuals and employers in activities that foster ...READ»

Best of TreeHugger: Bus-Bike Design, a Living Building, the U.S. Sheds Some C02

Could folding e-bike rental hubs at bus stops revolutionize your commute? Plus, the world's first building is built with live trees, and U.S. carbon emissions are down for the second year in a row.READ»

Give or Else?

The Hands On Network notes on its site that this month, "29 Fortune 500 corporations and national organizations are launching an unprecedented initiative to increase the number of employees who volunteer by 10% and raise 6.4 million ...READ»

Masters of Disaster

One British production company has excelled at turning fictional global catastrophes into compelling prime-time television.READ»

No Way to Run a Business

Our monthly letter from the editor.READ»

Fast History: Hurricane Katrina Makes Landfall in New Orleans, 2005

Most Americans remember tuning into the news this morning four years ago to find a beloved American city half immersed in water after Hurricane Katrina’s Category 3-fueled storm surge broke New Orleans fragile levees. Katrina ...READ»

How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change the World? One. And You're Looking At It.

For years, compact fluorescent bulbs have promised dramatic energy savings--yet they remain a mere curiosity. That's about to change.READ»

Letter From the Editor

Not-so-strict constructionism.READ»

In Today's News: Katrina, Cruise, Blu-ray...

What's worth reading: Bush Tours New Orleans, Pushes for Rebuilding Plan "President Bush bowed his head in prayer Tuesday to remember the hundreds who perished in Hurricane Katrina, a disaster that forever changed the Gulf Coast -- ...READ»

Designing for Disaster

We live in an age lashed by natural disasters. Katrina obviously looms in the American mind, but the Sichuan Earthquake and the Indian Ocean tsunami have all imprinted themselves on an entire generation, worldwide. What could we ...READ»

Soul is Waterproof

With three years behind us since Hurricane Katrina and, continuing in the spirit of The New Orleans 100 project, I've been contemplating my hometowns future and realizing the positive changes that have come about since the storm. ...READ»

Mail Call

Michael Eskew, the up-through-the-ranks CEO of UPS, on what he does for Brown, and what Brown has done for him.READ»

Case Study: New Orleans Business Struggles to Survive

Raymond Rathle survived a hurricane but lost his employees, customers, and insurance. Can his business be saved?READ»

In Today's Papers

What's worth reading: A New Way to Use the Force Lucasfilm Ltd. to release videogame to keep the Star Wars franchise churning. Katrina Cost Continues to Swell "The fiscal impact of Hurricane Katrina, the most costly natural ...READ»