The built environment and the way we design our buildings and green spaces help create our sense of place and determine our character as a community. But it’s not just as simple as putting down good plans on paper. It takes a comprehensive effort and commitment from everyone not only to design livable, smart, sustainable communities but to keep them clean.

Green

Jeffrey Carbo is a landscape architect with over 35 years of experience in professional practice, and the founding principal of CARBO Landscape Architecture in Baton Rouge and Alexandria. The range and scope of Jeff’s concerns include environmental conservation, the historical and cultural context of local and regional landscapes, and the attention to design detail in the numerous places and gardens that the firm has created. Jeff is a graduate of the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture and his firm’s projects have a unique design perspective that have influenced decision-makers to follow the themes of historic and cultural influences in design and construction detailing, with reference to the French, Spanish, Creole and American cultures

Clean

Kelly Hurtado is co-founder of the Louisiana Stormwater Coalition, a nonprofit organization established in 2021 with a mission of helping to clean up Baton Rouge’s polluted watershed, which is littered with bottles, cans, and trash. The organization is trying to help come up with a long-term program for stopping littler at its source and trapping it before it enters the creeks and bayous that make up the area’s watershed, which flows into the Gulf. Kelly is a Baton Rouge native and LSU graduate who has worked in philanthropy as a fundraiser for Our Lady of the Lake Foundation and, prior to that, as a publisher of InRegister magazine. 

You can see photos from this show by JT O'Neal on our website. Out to Lunch is recorded over lunch at Mansurs on the Boulevard. And you can check out more lunchtime conversation about Baton Rouge's green spaces and organic farming.

The built environment and the way we design our buildings and green spaces help create our sense of place and determine our character as a community. But it&rsquo;s not just as simple as putting down good plans on paper. It takes a comprehensive effort and commitment from everyone not only to design livable, smart, sustainable communities but to keep them clean.
Green
Jeffrey Carbo is a landscape architect with over 35 years of experience in professional practice, and the founding principal of <a href="https://www.carbo-la.com/">CARBO Landscape Architecture</a> in Baton Rouge and Alexandria. The range and scope of Jeff&rsquo;s concerns include environmental conservation, the historical and cultural context of local and regional landscapes, and the attention to design detail in the numerous places and gardens that the firm has created. Jeff is a graduate of the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture and his firm&rsquo;s projects have a unique design perspective that have influenced decision-makers to follow the themes of historic and cultural influences in design and construction detailing, with reference to the French, Spanish, Creole and American cultures
Clean
Kelly Hurtado is co-founder of the <a href="https://www.louisianastormwater.com/what-we-do">Louisiana Stormwater Coalition</a>, a nonprofit organization established in 2021 with a mission of helping to clean up Baton Rouge&rsquo;s polluted watershed, which is littered with bottles, cans, and trash. The organization is trying to help come up with a long-term program for stopping littler at its source and trapping it before it enters the creeks and bayous that make up the area&rsquo;s watershed, which flows into the Gulf. Kelly is a Baton Rouge native and LSU graduate who has worked in philanthropy as a fundraiser for Our Lady of the Lake Foundation and, prior to that, as a publisher of InRegister magazine.&nbsp;
You can see photos from this show by<a href="https://www.facebook.com/jtoneal1"> JT O'Neal</a> on <a href="https://itsbatonrouge.la/2021/07/07/clean-green/">our website</a>. Out to Lunch is recorded over lunch at Mansurs on the Boulevard. And you can <a href="https://itsbatonrouge.la/2016/05/27/geaux-green-out-to-lunch-its-baton-rouge/">check out more lunchtime conversation about Baton Rouge's green spaces and organic farming</a>.

OUT TO LUNCH finds Baton Rouge Business Report Editor Stephanie Riegel combining her hard news journalist skills and food background: conducting business over lunch. Baton Rouge has long had a storied history of politics being conducted over meals, now the Capital Region has an equivalent culinary home for business: Mansur's. Each week Stephanie holds court over lunch at Mansur's and invites members of the Baton Rouge business community to join her. You can also hear the show on WRKF 89.3FM.

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