Restore the Mississippi River Delta Awards $25k Grant to LEH and 64 Parishes
We are proud to announce a new partnership with Restore the Mississippi River Delta (RMRD) and the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana on projects reflecting on Louisiana’s environmental crises that threaten our culture. Thanks to a $25,000 grant from RMRD, the LEH will be able to produce:
- Placemaking, a new environmental humanities-focused column in 64 Parishes magazine;
- two feature-length articles in 64 Parishes magazine;
- four new encyclopedia entries on 64parishes.org;
- and a community conversation in Lake Charles that will bring together key takeholders and members of the general public for a program with 64 Parishes’ editors and contributors looking at six years of sharing the stories of a region at risk.
Since 2016, the LEH has actively engaged in documenting, supporting, and facilitating conversations on cultures and communities at risk from land loss and climate-related disasters.
Read the first edition of Placemaking here, as well as stories on Humanities Awards winners The Precipice and photographer Ben Depp.
About Restore the Mississippi River Delta
Restore the Mississippi River Delta is a coalition of Environmental Defense Fund, National Audubon Society, the National Wildlife Federation, Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, and Pontchartrain Conservancy. Together, we are working to rebuild coastal Louisiana’s nationally-significant landscape to protect people, wildlife and jobs.