This articles is excerpted from Gulf Currents, GRN’s quarterly newsletter. To read the rest of the Summer 2014 edition of Gulf Currents, click here.Participants at the Gulf Future Community Visioning Salon in New Orleans.Over the course of Gulf Restoration Network’s twenty-year history, we have partnered with a myriad of artists, musicians and cultural workers to […]
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This past 7 members of GRN staff joined approximately 75 environmental advocates from across Louisiana to “flood Baton Rouge” with our water and voices. The rally marked the end of a week-long march from Grand Isle in protest of Bobby Jindal’s signing the controversial SB 469 (becoming act 544), and effectively letting Big Oil companies
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Fest-goer participating in “Coast:Line” tapestry.Last week, Gulf Restoration Network made its 8th trip to Manchester, Tennessee for a week of advocating and educating music lovers across the nation on the continuing impacts of the BP oil disaster on the Gulf Coast. Amidst the 80,000 attendees and sprawling acreage affectionately known as “The Farm” , Bonnaroo
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“I know I’m just one person, but I really think that together we can really do something important and be a model for the future of the Gulf.”This visionary sentiment expressed by a participant at one of the Salons hosted by the Gulf Future Coalition sums our hopes for our collective work quite beautifully. In
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318 Olympic sized swimming pools of oil spread over 15,000-football fields worth of coastline – that’s the scale and scope of the 2010 BP oil disaster. As you probably know, Gulf Restoration Network has continued to conduct monitoring work in its aftermath. What you might not know is that GRN also continues to organize all
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