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Friends of Lighthouse Field collects hair and fur to help with gulf oil cleanup – May 2010
SANTA CRUZ -- Friends of Lighthouse Field, a group of Santa Cruz dog lovers, has taken on the task of collecting hair and fur from local hair salons and dog groomers to help clean up the oil spilling off the Gulf Coast. The operation was put together by the San...
PETCO donating fur from grooming salons to assist Gulf oil cleanup – May 2010
The forces working to clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are receiving aid from an unlikely source: PETCO. On May 7th the company began shipping donations of animal fur from its nationwide network of grooming salons to the Gulf Coast region. The fur is used...
WABB’s Oily Hair Promo – May 2010
DITTMAN Top 40 WABB/MOBILE has teamed up with four local salons to help clean up the oil spill in the GULF OF MEXICO. Listeners are encouraged to get their hair cut at one of the salons before MAY 21st. WABB will collect the "scrap hair" and send it to MATTER OF...
Operation gives new meaning to oily hair – May 2010
Donated tresses and pet fur will be used to absorb Gulf spill Your tresses or even your dog's fur could help mop up the catastrophic oil mess in the Gulf of Mexico. Multiple hair salons and pet grooming studios across Southwest Florida are joining a nationwide effort...
New York Times – Hair and Animal Fur Donated to Fight Oil Spill
CONTINUE READING... New York Times, May 6th, 2010 https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/us/06hair.html
Wall Street Journal – Recession Puts a Kink in Operation That Uses Locks to Soak Up Oil Spills – August 2009
Ms. Gautier's 'Hair Mats' Hit Production Snag; Donated Manes Languish in the Dining Room SAN FRANCISCO -- The recession has left Lisa Gautier with an abundance of hair -- 18,000 pounds, to be exact. She didn't grow it herself. Mrs. Gautier runs Matter of Trust, a San...
Can Biology Clean Up Sewage and Oil Spills? – May-June 2009
From mushrooms to hair mats, quirky cleanups for man-made messes. Go With the Flow Inventor John Todd's Eco-Machines use tanks of bacteria, fungi, plants, snails, and fish to digest sewage, releasing water clean enough to be reused for plumbing or irrigation. The...
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...