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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
Redbook Magazine – Give your old stuff to a good cause
Redbook Magazine, October 2004
Reader’s Digest – Charity, Retooled
Reader's Digest, July 2004
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...
San Francisco Magazine – how to recycle anything
San Francisco Magazine, June 2003
Cut & Dry Magazine – Hair Mats
Cut & Dry Magazine, September/October 2001