Aaron Viles

” The Grand Prize has been awarded to the short film, “The Human Cost,” by Edward Holub and Christian Roselund. The film highlights Hurricane Gustav’s devastating impact on the Native American Pointe Au Chien Tribe and the residents of Chauvin, LA, juxtaposed with the impacts of the oil and gas industry’s destructive footprint on Louisiana’s […]

We’re excited to announce that we’re over 115 home or community screenings of the powerful documentary, “Paradise Faded: The Fight for Louisiana” on or around the Katrinaversary, August 29th. From Puerto Rico to Portland, our activists, bolstered by support from Sierra Club groups, Tulane and LSU alumni clubs and others (perhaps recruited by REM, Galactic

As folks may know, GRN has been involved with working to improve the Morganza-to-the-Gulf levee system since 2001, urging for levee alignments which will allow for as much intact coastal marsh area in front of the levee toe as possible. Despite our efforts, momentum has developed around an alignment that would significantly impact estuarine marsh,

GRN is proud to be partnering with What About Blue? An education and fundraising effort to support solutions for the world water crisis. Novice kayaker (not sure why we’re so into paddlers) Kevin Lilly has committed to paddling the length of the Mississippi River to call attention to the lack of safe, fresh water around

Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana ” Gulf Restoration Network ” Lake Pontchartrain Basin FoundationSince Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the US Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) has spent the last 3 years and over $23 million taxpayer dollars on the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Study (also known as the “Category 5 plan”). Our organizations worked

Do you believe it’s almost been four years since Hurricane Katrina, then Rita rocked the Gulf Coast?We’ve seen the federal government respond to those twin disasters, and there have been moments of courage, and useful programs that address the needs of struggling communities, but largely, the response has been inadequate. From FEMA to the Corps

The pelagic brown algae, Sargassum natans, is a regular visitor to the shores of the Texas Gulf coast. The floating seaweed is a habitat to numerous species of vertebrates and invertebrates, several of which are exclusive to the Sargassum. Many sports fisherman in the Gulf look for the “weed lines” , as more often than

Over the past week or so, GRN has been maligned by advocates of the Morganza to the Gulf hurricane risk reduction system, as opposing the project and therefore, not supporting the future of the Houma/Thibodaux area. In order to set the record straight, our Executive Director, Cyn Sarthou submitted this opinion piece to the Houma

This report is a coastal Louisiana game-changer.A couple of LSU researchers have weighed in on the ability of the Mississippi River to sustain our coastal wetlands, and the math isn’t good. Due to increased sea level rise, decreased sediment in the river, and our ever-subsiding coast, the Mississippi River estuarine wetlands aren’t long for this

Last week the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing at the request of Senators Landrieu and Vitter, entitled, “New Orleans Hurricane and Flood Protection and Coastal Louisiana Restoration: Status and Progress.”You can watch the archived hearing here: http://bit.ly/z7PqOThe hearing includes statements and questions from Senators Landrieu, Vitter and Committee Chair Barbara Boxer