The Gulf Coast in Crisis

Satellite Image courtesy NASA

Hi All,

As many of you know, our latest love project is centered around helping a non-federally recognized group of Native American’s living on the small Isle de Jean Charles off the Louisiana Gulf Coast. For decades it was thought that the end of their way of life would come via a hurricane or the steady erosion that continues to eat away at the fragile coastline. With one of the largest oil spills in US history making landfall, a new challenge needs to be met.

Today it is with great urgency that we ask you to step to the plate and start swinging. The New York Times, along with a number of other news organizations has begun reporting that the oil has made landfall. We believe that it is our responsibility as human beings do to whatever we can to blunt this horrible disaster.  As with most disasters of this magnitude, individuals can be left feeling helpless.  What can one person do in the face of such an astronomical challenge?   The answer to this question can sometimes, in part, be easier than you think.  Along with what is sure to be a great insurgence of non-profits to the area (we’ll post a list of organizations you can help as we find out about them), one has a eco-sustainable way to help clean up the to-be blackened coastline. Matter of Trust is a non-profit organization that is using hair to help clean up oil spills. That’s right, hair!  We’ve all got it, some more than others (tear), and we can all help out their organization by simply cutting off the lovely locks that frame our beautiful faces to help clean up a coastline, help save an ecosystem, and an ocean based economy that generates more than $230 Billion dollars in revenue yearly.

Go to their website, check it out. If you don’t have any hair to donate like John and I, you can always send a little money. Anything can help.

We cannot afford to lose this delicate area of our great country.

Humbly yours,

Grant & John

Here is a powerful graphical representation of the issue we face by the talented Tiffany Farrant:

Here is a brief glimpse into some of the issues people face while living on the gulf coast:

To read more about the oil spill, please visit these links.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2010-04-29-oilspillupdate_N.htm

http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20100429/ARTICLES/100429189/1193?Title=Gulf-Coast-oil-spill-could-eclipse-Exxon-Valdez

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/federal_government_halts_new_o.html

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/cabinet_officials_will_inspect.html

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/92480224.html

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