MSNBC – Your help wanted: The hair boom story

MSNBC – Your help wanted: The hair boom story

“Hair finally starts arriving after clogging up the postal system. Amanda Bacon’s first Boom B Q in Alabama.” Photo: Matter of Trust This story needs your help, please. Yesterday, we reported that the Deepwater Horizon Response team isn’t using those hair mats or...
MSNBC – Hair booms piling up around the Gulf, unused and ready

MSNBC – Hair booms piling up around the Gulf, unused and ready

Making hair booms in Mobile. Photo courtesy of Amanda Bacon Thanks, everyone, who helped with finding out more about those hair booms or mats folks are donating clippings for to help protect the Gulf Coast. BP says its responders aren’t using the hair booms because...
The New York Times – Boom-B-Qs

The New York Times – Boom-B-Qs

Social gatherings at which volunteers learn how to construct homemade oil-defense booms. Hair and pantyhose are being shipped to the Gulf Coast to help defend the coastline against oil spilling from the Deepwater Horizon rig, Sarah Wheaton reported in The Times: At...
NPR – Sopping Up An Oil Slick With Castaway Hair

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...