LifeCity

Liz Shephard has earned her entrepreneurial stripes in creating Life City, the first green business certification and education program in New Orleans. The hard work, passion, and commitment LifeCity puts into helping businesses and communities is evident by her being chosen as a recipient of a $50,000 Village Capital investment from First Light Ventures. I anticipate that LifeCity will continue to grow and do well while doing good in New Orleans and beyond. Kathleen Lunn  read more

As a new member of the New Orleans community it’s exciting to see endeavors like Life City take flight. Life City represents a new way of thinking about the relationship between New Orleans’ small businesses and the community at large. It’s this type of business activity and new approach to building a better New Orleans that attracted me here. Doug Walner  read more

I'm thrilled to be involved in the LifeCity venture because 1) it is inclusive, and 2) it is a fun and exciting way to inspire people to do the right thing. It is just this kind of creative venture that will achieve unexpected success, and in a few years no one will know how we did without it. Linda Stone  read more

As Sr. Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development at the University of New Orleans, I have responsibilities for UNO’s outreach in support of local and regional economic development. I eagerly volunteered to serve on the Life City Board of Advisors because I feel the New Orleans area, and the country for that matter, need companies as Life City to help ensure quality-of-life issues are addressed as key considerations in our economic development efforts. Life City is the type of company that can help citizens and businesses achieve smart, sustainable and environmentally sensitive growth as they build communities for the 21st Century. George Harker III  read more

LifeCity has clearly identified the greatest challenge in improving living conditions in any city, education. When you combine education with execution, you affect change. That is what excited me about LifeCity. We all live and work in our communities and the ability to help the residents and businesses learn and act improves the viability of our community and health of our environs and our families. Elizabeth Shephard has demonstrated that she is clearly the leading expert in this field. Darin McAulife  read more

I believe in the inclusive green movement that Life City is working to usher in. It is important that we support small business innovation and leadership in the  economy. Stacey Danner  read more

LifeCity can serve as a relevant and revolutionary means to summon whole communites into effective action, shaping environmentally sound behavior, offering viable alternatives to over-consumption and epidemic materialism, and moreover, building healthy and compassionate relationships among people, communities, creatures, and the Earth. Carol Winn Crawford  read more

I have been living in New Orleans for five years now, working on Make It Right and other community-focused green building projects in the Lower 9th Ward. There is a vast network of green-living proponents in this city, but cohesion and organization are lacking. The formation of Life City marks the beginning of a powerful movement toward correcting this and toward achieving a new level of environmental justice, and I am honored to be a part of it. Sarah Howell  read more

'Going Green' is just a catch phrase without innovative organizations like LifeCity pioneering programs that provide everyday people and businesses the knowledge and resources to act on their good intentions. I am proud to support LifeCity, whose creative solutions will one day be the standard for New Orleans’ green economy. Allen Bell  read more