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Mycroremedia What? – January 2008
Why such low-tech solutions as hair mats and mushrooms may be the answer to oil-spill woes You are what you eat—unless you're an oyster mushroom. In that case, you can indulge in some of the most toxic, noxious petroleum products available and turn them into...
S.F. Presidio opening space for novel oil spill composting project -November 2007
Project to convert oil-soaked hair mats, mushrooms into dirt Preparing the compost bins to begin make the "lasagna" of oily toxic mix. Lisa Gautier, who is leading the charge to use human hair mats to soak up oil from the Bay Area spill, has been invited to compost...
Guerillas on the Beach – November 2007
Ocean lovers help clean an oil-covered beach with an eco-friendly fiber that grows on you. When the container ship Cosco Busan struck the Oakland Bay Bridge on Wednesday, November 7, it ripped a gash in its tank and spilled 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel into...
SF Gate – Hair and mushrooms create a recipe for cleaning up oily beaches
A group of guerrilla volunteers is cleaning oil from San Francisco's beaches using an unorthodox, albeit totally organic, method: human hair and mushrooms. CONTINUE READING... SF Gate, Nov 14th, 2007 ...
Hair and mushrooms create a recipe for cleaning up oily beaches – November 2007
SAN FRANCISCO BAY OIL SPILL Their mats absorb the slick stuff, then oyster mushrooms turn it to compost Lisa Gautier shows how the globs of oil stick to the hair mats. Lisa Gautier operates a nonprofit called matteroftrust.org that reuses products. She is providing...
Kron4 – Kill The Spill Effort – 11pm News – 11-10-07
See below, or view it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lqkltVsKEY https://zunasurf.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/kron4-kill-the-spill-effort-11pm-news-11-10-07/
Oprah Magazine – September 2006
Oprah Magazine, September 2006
In These Times – The Accidental Conservationist
Lisa Gautier’s environmentalist career didn’t begin with a treetop hunger strike or a bracing voyage on a Greenpeace boat. It began with an old rug. “I bought a new rug and I didn’t know what to do with the old one,” says the 36-year-old San Franciscan. So Gautier...
Wired – Startup Leftovers Piling Up
The deluge of closures and cutbacks at tech startups is creating at least one beneficial side effect. Charity workers who distribute furniture and gadgetry that companies leave behind are finding themselves with plenty of stock. That's how it seems at...
GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE – A Hairy Solution for Crude Oil Spills
In 1989, Phillip McCrory watched a CNN story on the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Seeing the difficulty volunteers were having cleaning oil from the fur of otters, McCrory wondered if perhaps human hair could be used to soak up oil. His curiosity could revolutionize how we...