Today's JCWP Media Highlights

Reuters:
Push to build "green" homes picks up steam
Thu Nov 1, 2007 7:11pm GMT
By Karen Jacobs

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Soaring energy costs and increased concern about the environment are spurring builders to step up building homes that use less energy and water.

More than 30 affordable homes being built this week during a Habitat for Humanity project in Los Angeles include materials designed to reduce energy costs and save the new homeowners money.

"Green building certainly is becoming more mainstream within the affordable housing community," said Ted Bardacke, senior program associate with Global Green USA, an environmental group that works with housing developers.

Read the entire story:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKN0147473220071101


Pasadena Weekly:
Helping Humanity
By Carl Kozlowski

Former President Jimmy Carter has long focused his considerable energies on alleviating poverty and promoting electoral justice around the globe in addition to building homes for the poor through Habitat for Humanity.
Carter is currently leading thousands of volunteers in a massive effort to build 30 affordable houses in south Los Angeles and San Pedro.
The Pasadena-based San Gabriel Valley chapter of Habitat for Humanity has donated $5,000 to help make that goal a reality.
“In conjunction with this special week in Los Angeles with the Jimmy Carter Work Project, we’re launching our construction of 11 homes on Kenwood Street in Glendale and we’re very excited to [be part of] these projects,” said Sonja Yates, San Gabriel Valley Habitat’s executive director.
“Jimmy Carter has been a leader physically on projects, but he’s also a symbolic leader in drawing attention to the 2,250 affiliates around the world that are making a dent in the need for affordable housing,” Yates said.

http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/article.php?id=5299&IssueNum=96


The Acorn:
Habitat for Humanity supports work project


Habitat for Humanity of Ventura County is an official affiliate sponsor of Habitat for Humanity International's 24th annual Jimmy Carter Work Project, which includes a $5,000 commitment to the project. In addition, several of the local affiliates' volunteers will donate their time to the project next week.

Habitat for Humanity's Jimmy Carter Work Project is an annual event in which the former U.S. president and his wife, Rosalynn, join Habitat volunteers for one week to build affordable homes in partnership with people in need of housing.

This year's project is taking place from Oct. 28 to Nov. 2 in South Los Angeles and San Pedro, where volunteers will gather to build 30 new homes and work on the rehabilitation of houses near both sites.

Habitat for Humanity of Ventura County has rehabilitated hundreds of homes and built 44 new homes since its inception in 1983.

For more information, visit www.habitat.org.

http://www.theacorn.com/news/2007/1101/Community/043.html