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Valley animal fibers helping Gulf relief effort – June 2010
Idaho may be land locked, but Valley residents are pulling together to help the Gulf clean-up effort by using fibers from ranch animals. Tetonia alpaca breeder Tom Cleary is spearheading an effort to collect clippings that will be made into oil-soaking booms in the...
Share hair – a booming business: Gulf disaster spurs new use for tresses – June 2010
The situation in the Gulf of Mexico just got a little hairier with Los Altos Retreat Salon & Spa’s first-aid shipment of – what else? – hair, to a warehouse in Florida. Add nylon stockings, meshing and a little elbow grease, and the hair that once covered heads...
Salon Contributes to Gulf Clean-Up Effort – June 2010
Santa Barbara’s Salon Patine, located on upper State Street, has taken an inventive, practical approach to cleaning the Gulf of Mexico of the oil that now permeates it. In collaboration with Pureology Serious Color Care, which is also making a conscious effort to help...
Now hair this! B’klyn Salons to collect trimmings for oil spill relief – June 2010
Hair’s a good idea. As the federal government and BP bungle the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, two Williamsburg salons — one for humans, one for dogs — has come forward with a plan that’s just crazy enough to work: for the next month, all of their customers’ clip...
Long Beach Report – June 2010
(June 4, 2010) -- USAToday.com online now has a story on the actions of BP and its federal bureaucratic partners spurning volunteered animal fur and human hair that could soak up oil from the BP-drilled, federally-authorized deep water well in the Gulf coast. The...
Bismarck hair clippings being sent to help with Gulf oil spill cleaning – June 2010
Hair may be a solution. The Hair Academy is collecting its hair clippings to send to New Orleans to be used in booms to sop up oil in the Gulf. “Everyone was very excited, very willing to help,” said Kelli Folk, who brought the idea to her teacher. “Even our clients...
Hair today, saving the Gulf of Mexico tomorrow – June 2010
Grant Wittevrongel recently travelled all the way from his home in Transcona to Portage Avenue just to get his hair cut at Lyla’s Family Affair hair salon. Wittevrongel’s hair will soon be traveling even further than he did — all the way to the Gulf of Mexico, in...
Spill project hair-oic – June 2010
Your hair has the power to help to stop the nastiest oil spill in U.S. history from spreading. That fact gave two Barrie residents the hair-brained idea to help mop up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Chris Kitchen and Cheryl Lago are collecting human and animal...
Hair clippings from Jeannette salon sent to sop up oil spill in gulf – June 2010
Two zebra-patterned brooms sit in the corner of Marcie Hartung's Wink Salon in Jeannette, ready to sweep up clippings for a can labeled "Hair for oil project — no garbage."The specially marked trash can has been propped on a stool for two weeks, ever since Hartung...
SF Gate – Why is BP turning away natural oil-cleanup materials being offered for free?
Hair booms may not be pretty, but they work A month and a half later, we’re back to square one with the BP oil spill: BP doesn’t know how to make it stop. I suppose that shouldn’t be a surprise when most of the contingency plan it filed was blank pages and bits of...