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...

Alpacas to Help Fight Gulf Spill? – May 2010

Four alpacas at an Alabama zoo are “donating” fleece to a group making hair-filled booms designed to keep spilled oil away from U.S. Gulf Coast shores. © 2010 National Geographic; Videographer & Field Producer: Fritz Faerber Related Nature Fighting...
Hair clippings to help with oil clean-up

Hair clippings to help with oil clean-up

VIRGINIA BEACH — ‘It’s all our water,’ says Dave Dunlap as he sits in a salon chair. ‘We’ve got to take care of it, and if this helps, that’s the best way to do it.’ With his hair clippings falling to the ground at Sport...
Southwest Georgians help oil spill crises in Gulf

Southwest Georgians help oil spill crises in Gulf

Fri, 14 May 2010 21:41:53 GMT — Oil continues to spill into the Gulf of Mexico but if you’d like to help it doesn’t take much. Hot Headz Salon in Leesburg is challenging hair salons across Southwest Georgia to collect as much hair as they can to help out...

Angela Carella: Hip with a hair-raising cause – May 2010

5 A little off the top: Hair to help cut Gulf oil spill impact The rally behind Stamford’s Academy of Information Technology & Engineering Thursday had a ’60s vibe. Students played guitars, wore peace signs, and held posters painted in psychedelic...

Collected clippings will create oil booms – May 2010

It’s the reason behind the invention of shampoo: Hair collects oil. Pounds of hair from New Haven-area residents — and their pets — will be doing just that, on a larger scale. The hair will be used to sop up some of the more than 4 million gallons of...
Local salons collecting hair to help gulf oil clean-up

Local salons collecting hair to help gulf oil clean-up

EVANSVILLE, IN (WFIE) – As crews try to fix an oil pipe gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, the tri-state is getting involved in the cleanup efforts. Stylists at Shannon Aleksandr’s are sweeping up– and saving– every little bit of hair they trim...
Hair Collections Could Help Clean Oil Spill

Hair Collections Could Help Clean Oil Spill

Students at The Ohio State College of Barber Styling were doing more than learning the art of hairdressing on Thursday. The students were part of an effort to send hair clippings to help the Gulf Coast clean up the oil spill, 10TV’s Lindsey Seavert. “As a...

Haircut today, greener tomorrow – May 2010

Bad news continues to flow more than three weeks after a massive oil-rig explosion 50 miles off the Louisiana coast, fueling collective senses of not just dread but frustration. Yet many Americans looking for a way to help counter this environmental (and economic)...