Category: Coastal Life

This hurricane season, the threats to Louisiana’s coastal communities once again come into focus – not just more frequent and ferocious storms, but also the combination of climate change, land erosion, subsidence and sea level rise.

Louisiana is confronting these problems with strategic planning involving land building and community relocation, while nurturing the development of industries focused on coastal preservation, sustainability and alternative energy resources.

A new WYES multi-part series, “Challenges and Opportunities: The Louisiana Coast,” focuses on these issues, beginning with the state’s updated Coastal Master Plan. Premieres Wednesday, June 21 at 7 p.m. on WYES -TV and wyes .org/live.

– Dominic Massa, WYES -TV, The New Orleans 100

What are we doing to protect the Louisiana coastline? Learn how local advocacy groups are helping and what we can do to save our coast at the WYES Coastal Expo on Saturday, Aug. 17 from 1-4 p.m. at WYES, located at 916 Navarre Ave.

Guests will also have the opportunity to watch all three, 30-minute programs from the WYES series “Challenges & Opportunities” by producer and host Marcia Kavanaugh. Following the screening there will be a Q&A.

The event is free and open to the public, and there’s plenty of free parking available. For more information, please visit wyes.org.

– Aislinn Hinyup, WYES, The New Orleans 100