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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...
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...