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Below is a list of Make It Right News articles. Click on the title or the "more" link to view each press release. Note: Most articles link out to external Web sites.

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ASLA Interview with Tim Duggan: January 21, 2011; Make It Right's Tim Duggan talks to the American Society of Landscape Architects. More

Green Gifts that Give Back: December 16, 2010; See Make It Right's popular line of green gifts for the holidays. More

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CNN: Pitt: NOLA eco-friendly homes “exceeded my expectations”: September 07, 2010; The actor targeted this area some years ago with his Make It Right Foundation -- an ambitious plan to build up the shattered neighborhood with new, ecologically friendly, affordable houses, and then fill them with residents who had been driven out by Katrina. More

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Times-Picayune: Brad Pitt Talks About Katrina and New Orleans: September 07, 2010; Lower 9th Ward houses of Pitt’s nonprofit Make it Right Foundation - individualistic and energy-efficient - are among the most inspired responses to the storm’s ravages. More

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Bloomberg: Brad Pitt’s Architects Give New Orleans Safer, Snazzier Homes: September 07, 2010; They are the most cheering emblem of a city where hundreds of thousands have returned yet full recovery and drivers of future growth remain elusive. More

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Treehugger Interview with Make It Right’s Tom Darden: February 23, 2010; Brad Pitt's vision for a green rebuild of the Lower Ninth Ward is being realized by Make It Right, an innovative organization whose cutting-edge designs, sculpted by world-class architects, are both stunning and controversial. Tom Darden is the executive director of Make It Right. He explains how the vision came to be, how he works with the residents who lost their homes, and reflects on the similarities between the destruction in NOLA and the earthquake in Haiti. More

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New Orleans Times-Picayune: Blight-fighting agency gets $30 million from feds: January 15, 2010; The New Orleans Redevelopment Authority, the city's blight-fighting agency, received the largest direct federal grant in its history on Thursday. More

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Brad Pitt’s Gifts to New Orleans: December 28, 2009; In 2007, frustrated by the slow pace of rebuilding in the Lower Ninth, Brad Pitt set up a foundation called Make It Right; the foundation then commissioned 13 architecture firms to design affordable, green houses. The organization plans to build 150 homes, all for returning Lower Ninth residents. So far, just 15 of them are occupied, but those 15 make a big impression. More

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New Orleans A Test Case for Global Warming: December 28, 2009; Copenhagen, Denmark, is 5,000 miles away from New Orleans, Louisiana. But representatives of the 192 nations gathering this week at the climate change conference need to keep the memory of a flooded New Orleans in mind. More

Houses of the Future: October 20, 2009; From The Atlantic More