“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...
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...
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,...
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...
NEWTOWN — Your dog or cat could help in cleaning up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The Animal Center, a Newtown-based charity for animal welfare, is requesting that pet owners bring in clean fur to Your Healthy Pet pet store in Newtown from May 14 to 28....
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...
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...
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...
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...
