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New York Times – Hair and Animal Fur Donated to Fight Oil Spill
CONTINUE READING... New York Times, May 6th, 2010 https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/us/06hair.html
NPR – Sopping Up An Oil Slick With Castaway Hair
Workers in the Gulf of Mexico are using oil containment booms to sop up oil and protect coastlines from the approaching slick. Commercial booms are usually made of plastic. But an alternative source for the booms is found on the floor of salons across the country. As...
Wall Street Journal – Recession Puts a Kink in Operation That Uses Locks to Soak Up Oil Spills – August 2009
Ms. Gautier's 'Hair Mats' Hit Production Snag; Donated Manes Languish in the Dining Room SAN FRANCISCO -- The recession has left Lisa Gautier with an abundance of hair -- 18,000 pounds, to be exact. She didn't grow it herself. Mrs. Gautier runs Matter of Trust, a San...
Can Biology Clean Up Sewage and Oil Spills? – May-June 2009
From mushrooms to hair mats, quirky cleanups for man-made messes. Go With the Flow Inventor John Todd's Eco-Machines use tanks of bacteria, fungi, plants, snails, and fish to digest sewage, releasing water clean enough to be reused for plumbing or irrigation. The...
Real Simple – The On-line Garage Sale
Real Simple Magazine, ~April 2009
Orion Magazine – Bad Hair Day
Bad Hair Day, ~2008 https://orionmagazine.org/article/bad-hair-day/
Antonucci Salon-Live Green-ABC News
G Word – Hair Mat
Women’s Health – De-Clutter Your Life: Find Out Where and What to Recycle
Ah, stuff. We need it, we want it, we love it. Until we hate it, get bored with it, or wear it out (unless you're a hoarder and you just keep everything). Sure, some of it winds up in the green bin or goes to Goodwill. But chances are, you're sending a lot of things...
Larkspur students get haircuts to help oil spill cleanup efforts – January 2008
SHAINA FORSMAN and about 40 other students from Larkspur's Marin Primary and Middle School got the best of two worlds Monday - helping the environment by getting a haircut. "I'm really glad I can contribute and help out the environment," said Forsman, 13, of Corte...