Make It Right believes that great design should be affordable for working families. That’s why we build affordable, sustainable homes for families in need, designed by some of the world’s greatest architects like Frank Gehry and Shigeru Ban. We’ve also had a lot of great architects volunteer to design new homes for us. That’s why [...]
2013 Hurricane season is here and - with one named hurricane already on the books – it looks like it’s going to be an active one. Are you and your family ready? Here are a few tips on what to do before, during and after a hurricane. Before the Storm – Be Ready to Evacuate [...]
We’re delighted to announce our newest project on the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana! Read the details below and click here if you’d like to support our work. Make It Right and Native American Tribes Announce Sustainable Housing Project May 28, 2013 – Today Make It Right announced that it will partner with the Sioux [...]
Our friends over at Ecovative have a fantastic new R&D project involving their mycelium based process used as insulation for a house. For those that might not know, mycelium is fungal network of threadlike cells that can be liked to the “roots” of mushrooms. The Ecovative team uses this fungi along with agricultural byproducts to [...]
We put our heads together to come up with some great eco-friendly ideas for Mother’s Day this year. Here are our favorite gifts to show some love to both your mom and Mother Earth: DIY Dads Need some simple gifts to make with your little ones? Try these: Cardboard photo cubes (tutorial by Tara Dennis) Decorated [...]
Note: We’re delighted to have award-winning interior designer and blogger Patricia Davis Brown as our guest author on the blog today. Check out her fantastic work at DigThisDesign.net. – Taylor Royle High End Style on a Budget by Patricia Davis Brown Living on a budget, like so many of us are doing these days, usually means [...]
Thanks to Teach for America volunteers this new home has a lawn! We’re adding the final touches to this house for new homeowner Ronnie Williams. Ronnie says, “I think it’s wonderful that people came…and decided to volunteer some of their time to this effort. It feels good to come back down here and be able to [...]
Make It Right has partnered with the Cradle to Cradle Innovation Institute in announcing a competition to inspire product innovation. The $250,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to companies that are working on viable products in the realm of affordable building and construction products that are safe for human and environmental health. To learn [...]
On March 13, The New Republic published a flawed and inaccurate account of Make It Right’s work. Here is our response from Tom Darden, Make It Right’s Executive Director. – Taylor Royle I was disappointed to read Lydia Depillis’ mischaracterizations of Make It Right’s work and the Lower 9th Ward in her article, “If You [...]
Members of the Fort Peck Reservation and Assiniboine and Sioux tribe leaders visited Make It Right in New Orleans this week to tour our healthy, well-designed homes – and share a crawfish boil! Take a look at some pictures of the visit and learn more about our work on the Sustainable Elders Village in Fort Peck, Montana [...]