Aaron Viles

Not quite sure how to respond to this just yet. Today’s daily briefing from the Unified Command rolled out this idea. It’s terrifying on its face, lighting up a 2,000 square mile area of the Gulf that’s being expanded by uncontrolled, twin gysers of oil from the sea floor 5,000 feet down.More details are necessary

Just two days before Earth Day, a few weeks after President Obama’s call to increase drilling in off-shore areas, an oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, 45 miles off of Louisiana’s coast, near the Breton and Delta National Wildlife Refuges.Tragically, it appears that 11 missing crewmembers have been killed. In addition to the

Yesterday I was able to fly out over the BP oil spill site, thanks to our partners at Southwings, and pilot Tom Hutchings out of Fairhope, AL.We were shocked at what we saw. The main spill was at least 8 miles across, creating a kind of peninsula from what was presumably the site of the

Last week, GRN was honored to partner with former Saints linebacker Scott Fujita to issue a call to action for Louisiana’s coastal wetlands crisis. Scott and his wife Jaclyn pledged half of his Superbowl check to charity, with half going to Haiti, and half to Louisiana’s coastal wetlands education. GRN was thrilled to be one

Last Friday GRN was excited to partner with former Saint Scott Fujita, filmmaker Walter Williams, musician Amanda Shaw and the America’s WETLAND Foundation to help spread the word about Louisiana’s coastal crisis. As you may have seen, Scott and his wife Jaclyn decided to donate half of his Superbowl check to charity, with half going

This great story just came out in USA Today, announcing our exciting collaboration with NFL linebacker Scott Fujita, a key part of the 2009 Championship Saints team, now on his way to Cleveland. We’re thrilled to be working with Scott and his wife Jacyln, and appreciate their generosity and appreciation of the fact that Louisiana’s

GRN was excited to work with musician Tab Benoit and his organization, Voice of the Wetlands to take a couple other Louisiana rockstars on a coastal wetlands flyover recently. We were lucky to get Anders Osborne and Pepper Keenan to take time out of their busy schedules to spend time with us viewing the Atchafalaya

Big coastal news! The White House has released the initial results of the Louisiana-Mississippi Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Working Group, and we are terribly pleased to see a strategic approach, focused on: 1. Work with Federal and State Partners to Articulate a Shared Long-Term Vision, 2. Promoting Science-based Decisions, and perhaps most important, 3. Resolve

Do you hear that? It’s the sound of millions of Who Dat’s and Mardi Gras revelers exhaling after weeks of celebrating. With each Saints’ win on the road to their Super Bowl victory, the legion of fans and supporters grew even larger. We know President Obama was rooting for the Saints, and it seemed like