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KCBS – How you can use your hair (or your dog’s) as natural fertilizer
The hair of the dog isn't just for hangovers-- it can help your garden and ease pollution too! One Bay Area ecology group is employing hair from people and pets to use in the garden via compost and in the ocean to clean up pollution, using hair's natural ability to...
LA TIMES – Use your hair to help your garden or fight pollution. A Bay Area group shows how
Try answering this off the top of your head: What’s an abundant renewable resource that can spur growth in your garden and clear pollutants from bodies of water? The answer, according to a Bay Area nonprofit, is hair. CONTINUE READING... LA TIMES - Use your...
SF GATE – Big mats of human hair are saving Bay Area beaches. You can give yours
For the past few decades, Lisa Craig Gautier and her team at San Francisco-based nonprofit Matter of Trust have used mats made out of human and animal hair to help clean beaches and bodies of water. But, more recently, they have expanded to a new project: using hair...
WASHINGTON POST – Dutch start-up Human Material Loop turns hair into sustainable clothing
This unexpected material might be in your next sweater... Entrepreneurs are looking for ways to recycle human hair, including weaving clippings swept off the floor of salons and barbershops into clothes. CONTINUE READING... Washington Post - Dutch start-up...
KUAF – Clipping for a cause: Hairstream donates discarded hair to clean waterways
Aaron Elam runs a unique hair salon. For one, he operates it out of a converted airstream trailer. Hence its apt name: Hairstream. It’s located right off the Greenway in South Fayetteville. Elam said the uncommon nature of his salon draws many walk-up customers....
Instagram – Sam Bentley – Using HAIR to Fight Oil Spills
CONTINUE READING... Instagram - Sam Bentley - Using HAIR to Fight Oil Spills! February 4th, 2024 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C27u5Hbokcx/?igsh=OTU1ODAwZWUxYg==
ABC7 – SF Ecologists Testing Human and Animal Hair to Help Grow Plants in Presidio
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- For Noah Teller, precision is a passion, especially when he's trying to learn how to make things grow. As Ecological and Restoration Coordinator at San Francisco's Presidio, he's testing a variety of fertilizers in a tiny square by square...
Forbes Japan – Fuji Rock and the U.S. Air Force also adopted the unexpected use of “cut hair” from U.S. hairdressers
Have you ever seen the hair cut at the beauty salon and thought "it's a waste"?In the United States and Canada, 31.5 tons of hair are thrown away from beauty salons every day. Under these circumstances, "Matter of Trust Japan" was established in Japan on December 19,...
ECO-PERSPECTIVES – A Talk With Lisa Gautier
A podcast where we talk to leading environmental figures about innovative climate solutions, recent developments, and practical advice for the next generation of young changemakers... Episode 0: The Eco-Perspectives podcast inspires and empowers the next...
WASHINGTON POST – A lake is filled with oil. Thousands donated their hair to help soak it up.
Volunteers cut donors' hair during a campaign in Caracas, Venezuela, on Oct. 6. Hundreds of Venezuelans came to get their hair cut, some with their pets, to support an initiative that aims to use human and animal hair to help clean up Lake Maracaibo, which is highly...