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Please join us for our annual fall fundraiser at Susan Spicer’s Lakeview restaurant, MONDO, to support GRN’s efforts to defend our coast and culture.Last year’s fundraiser was an amazing event, and this year we’re setting the bar even higher.In the kitchen, Chef Adolfo Garcia will be joining Susan Spicer and the staff of Mondo. You […]

The Sunken Gardens on Canal Blvd. are a good example of cost-effective green infrastructure that helps retain stormwater. On Tuesday night, I attended New Orleans Mayor Landrieu’s District A Budget Listening session. GRN’s Michelle Erenberg and I were both there as District A residents. I live Uptown and she lives in Lakeview, but we both

Last week, a diverse array of Louisiana organizations and citizens, including Gulf Restoration Network, converged on two different meetings in order to support the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority’s lawsuit versus 97 oil, gas and pipeline companies for destruction of the Louisiana coast.The first was a meeting of the Louisiana House and Senate Transportation, Highways

We are all far too familiar with the regular occurrence of flooding in our neighborhoods. New Orleans is one of the rainiest cities in the country with over 5 feet falling per year, and it’s time we learned to live with the water. The levees surrounding New Orleans create a “bathtub” effect, allowing parts of

Two Saturdays ago, a handful of us at the Gulf Restoration Network participated in the Bayou St. John Marsh Creation Project. The project – supported by the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, Restore the Earth Foundation, and the Orleans Levee District – was enacted to build half an acre of native marsh in the city of

Did you hear that Governor Jindal has come out against efforts to hold the oil industry accountable for the wetlands they have destroyed? Tell the Governor that he should be making sure the oil and gas industry fixes what it broke!The official, Governor-appointed board which manages the levees and storm protection system for the New

As many of you have heard, Chef Sue Zemanick of Gautreau’s Restaurant is competing on Bravo Top Chef Masters and Gulf Restoration Network is her designated cause. Each week there is a Viewer’s Choice vote to determine which chef team wins $1,000 for its charity partner.Vote here for Team Zemanick and Gulf Restoration Network!You can

Photo: Paul KuzmichAttention Friends of the Gulf! This morning we scrambled up over 1,000 tickets from our annual Earth Month Drawing, thanks to Aveda. Every year, the Aveda salons of the Gulf Region sell raffle tickets for the entire month of April, and all proceeds go to us here at the Gulf Restoration Network. And

On scientists released their annual measurement of the Gulf Dead Zone, which measured 5,800 square miles – an area larger than the state of Connecticut. Despite voluntary measures promoted by EPA and the states to curb Dead Zone-causing pollution, this area where oxygen levels get so low that sea life must swim away or suffocate

Today scientists from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium released their annual measurement of the Gulf Dead Zone, which measured 5,800 square miles, larger than the state ofConnecticut. LUMCON has been measuring the Dead Zone since 1985, and this year’s Dead Zone is above both the long-term average size and the average size over the last