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Growing Hope in New Orleans

In New Orleans, where blighted lots full of trash are common, a real estate company is planting sunflowers to change local perceptions about abandoned neighborhoods. Sunflowers can also remove heavy metals from contaminated soils. Biofuels are made from t

Sunflowers are bringing new life to blighted neighborhoods of New Orleans. Will Bradshaw of Green Coast Enterprises tells host Steve Curwood that Project Sprout’s test plot of sunflowers will not only remove heavy metals from the contaminated soil, the flower seeds will also be made into biofuel.