Tomorrow is the last day to apply to be a GRN intern this fall! I’ve posted the necessary info below, along with an inspiring write up from April Wilson, who worked with us earlier this year.The Gulf Restoration Network is looking for student leaders to get their campus and community involved in the fight to …
Thanks to everyone who worked on and participated in the GRN Florida Summer Outreach Campaign! While folks are still knocking on doors in Louisiana, the Tampa canvass office wound down last week. Our intrepid canvassers pounded the pavement from Tampa to Sarasota to Tallahassee to launch GRN’s “Defend Florida’s Gulf Coast” campaign and build the …
Have you spoken with one of GRN’s canvassers yet?For the second summer in a row, GRN is engaging the public through an outreach-focused canvass campaign. Canvassing is an important way to build our membership, but it means more than simply signing up concerned Gulf Coast residents. Every home and every conversation is an opportunity to …
Gulf Restoration Network is once again gearing up for our Summer Outreach Campaign, and you can become part of building the movement to defend the Gulf Coast! From mid-May through August, we’ll be hiring passionate Gulf defenders to get out into neighborhoods to engage and activate concerned citizens on our Defend the Gulf Coast, Defend …
A snowy morning in Washington, DC has finally given me a moment to catch you up on the whirlwind of activity that’s been happening this weekend at Powershift 09. Powershift has brought together 12,000 students and young people to discuss, collaborate, and advocate for climate change solutions. GRN’s Louisiana Global Warming Organizer, Jonathan Henderson, and …
Today, February 19th, 2009 is . . . Please pick up your phone right now and call Lowe’s, Home Depot, and Wal-Mart to tell them to say NO to cypress mulch. For more information including phone numbers and talking points, visit the Mardi Gras Time Call-In Day Action Page.
Despite impassioned calls from national, regional, and local community and conservation organizations to protect habitat for Florida Black Bears, today the Coastal Rivers Basin Board of the Southwest Florida Water Management District voted to allow a controversial land swap to move forward.For more information, read the GRN’s press release,http://healthygulf.org/press-releases/southwest-florida-water-management-district-moves-forward-with-controversial-land-swap.htmlDan Favre is GRN’s Campaign Organizer.
February 19th, 2009 is . . . This February 19, 2009, join activists, gardeners, and concerned citizens throughout the Gulf in calling Lowe’s, Home Depot, and Wal-Mart to tell them to say NO to cypress mulch. For more information including phone numbers and talking points, visit the Mardi Gras Time Call-In Day Action Page. If …
Happy New Year! I hope everyone’s 2009 is off to a great start.As I was wading through all the emails I received during two weeks of holiday vacation, I found a couple that bode well for cypress forests this year!A fellow cypress protector in Georgia, Gordon Rogers, the Satilla Riverkeeper, had his opinion column published …
As a “Save Our Cypress” intern over these past months I have worked to educate the public on the dangerous of using cypress mulch, push for more sustainable mulch alternatives, and hold corporations accountable for their destruction of the Gulf Coast. Through all of this, I have gained invaluable knowledge about the Gulf Coast, confidence …