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Orion Magazine – Bad Hair Day
Bad Hair Day, ~2008 https://orionmagazine.org/article/bad-hair-day/
Larkspur students get haircuts to help oil spill cleanup efforts – January 2008
SHAINA FORSMAN and about 40 other students from Larkspur's Marin Primary and Middle School got the best of two worlds Monday - helping the environment by getting a haircut. "I'm really glad I can contribute and help out the environment," said Forsman, 13, of Corte...
Mycroremedia What? – January 2008
Why such low-tech solutions as hair mats and mushrooms may be the answer to oil-spill woes You are what you eat—unless you're an oyster mushroom. In that case, you can indulge in some of the most toxic, noxious petroleum products available and turn them into...
S.F. Presidio opening space for novel oil spill composting project -November 2007
Project to convert oil-soaked hair mats, mushrooms into dirt Preparing the compost bins to begin make the "lasagna" of oily toxic mix. Lisa Gautier, who is leading the charge to use human hair mats to soak up oil from the Bay Area spill, has been invited to compost...
Guerillas on the Beach – November 2007
Ocean lovers help clean an oil-covered beach with an eco-friendly fiber that grows on you. When the container ship Cosco Busan struck the Oakland Bay Bridge on Wednesday, November 7, it ripped a gash in its tank and spilled 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel into...
SF Gate – Hair and mushrooms create a recipe for cleaning up oily beaches
A group of guerrilla volunteers is cleaning oil from San Francisco's beaches using an unorthodox, albeit totally organic, method: human hair and mushrooms. CONTINUE READING... SF Gate, Nov 14th, 2007 ...
Hair and mushrooms create a recipe for cleaning up oily beaches – November 2007
SAN FRANCISCO BAY OIL SPILL Their mats absorb the slick stuff, then oyster mushrooms turn it to compost Lisa Gautier shows how the globs of oil stick to the hair mats. Lisa Gautier operates a nonprofit called matteroftrust.org that reuses products. She is providing...
GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE – A Hairy Solution for Crude Oil Spills
In 1989, Phillip McCrory watched a CNN story on the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Seeing the difficulty volunteers were having cleaning oil from the fur of otters, McCrory wondered if perhaps human hair could be used to soak up oil. His curiosity could revolutionize how we...