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Earth 911 TV – 5 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW YOU COULD RECYCLE
In this episode of Earth911TV we've got 5 things you might not know you can recycle. Some of them won't surprise you while some are just downright strange, but all of them are recyclable! Whether you're interested in making the world a better place, helping to...
San Francisco Business Times – Luminalt Lights Up City’s Solar
We are thrilled to be highlighted in today’s Business Journal. See article here. “They are a woman-owned company and do amazing work,” said Lisa Gautier, a residential and commercial customer of Luminalt’s. “They are very community connected. I run the Matter of Trust...
Woman’s Day – Clear Out Your Closet For Those In Need
Parade – Pet Hair Is Reusable! 9 Surprising Things You Can Recycle
You already know that paper, glass, and plastic goes in the blue bin—but how about pet hair, or old, worn out athletic shoes? Don’t toss these either—they can be recycled. Get the details on nine things you may not have known you could recycle: 1. CFL lightbulbs Bring...
SF Gate – Why is BP turning away natural oil-cleanup materials being offered for free?
Hair booms may not be pretty, but they work A month and a half later, we’re back to square one with the BP oil spill: BP doesn’t know how to make it stop. I suppose that shouldn’t be a surprise when most of the contingency plan it filed was blank pages and bits of...
Huffington Post – Give Me Down to There, Hair!
I have always been fascinated by random Broadway marketing ideas. Before I started in the industry, I actually thought they were meant to (directly) sell tickets. Now I realize that they are primarily designed to garner publicity, thereby hopefully selling tickets...
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
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
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...
The Washington Post – Matter of Trust creates hair-and-nylon booms to help clean up BP oil spill in Gulf
Can human hair and pantyhose save the Gulf? Well, no, it can't. The oil slickspreading from a damaged drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana is already too massive for any quick fix, no matter how well intended. But the environmental calamity has inspired a quirky...