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...

Animals Suffering from Oil Spill – May 2010

How Your Pets Can Help the Gulf Oil Spill Recovery Effort With the Exxon Valdez oil spill more than 20 years behind us, our nation again braces itself for another environmental disaster as the sunken BPoil rig gushes thousands of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico...

Fur balls blot tar balls – May 2010

Dawn Giovannucci often wonders how she can help. This time, she’s doing her part by holding on to something she usually throws away. Ms. Giovannucci, owner of a local dog spa, is collecting the hair and fur that falls to the floor after she grooms a canine,...

Local pet groomer donates hair to oil spill – May 2010

Dreadlocks for Dingoes, a Minneapolis-based pet groomer, is donating all of the hair and fur that it cuts to help clean up the oil spill in the Gulf. The donated hair will be sent to Matter of Trust, a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that will manufacture...