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Yesterday’s monitoring trip took me down to an isolated area on the eastern edge of Bay Ronquille on Louisiana’s coast. Bay Ronquille is to the southeast of Barataria Bay. I went to this area after being informed by a source that there are stretches of beach near Ronquille that are “completely covered in oil “and […]

The following guest post is by JP Gooderham, a Tulane University student who worked with the Gulf Restoration Network this fall through the GRN’s service-learning partnership with Professor Gary Brooks’s “Grassroots Politics” course. Service-learning at Tulane gives students the opportunity to get hands-on experience with the concepts they learn about in class. This fall, Tulane

GRN is excited to announce that Ozzy, REM, Pearl Jam, My Morning Jacket, Trent Reznor, Bonnie Raitt, OK Go, Rise Against, Indigo Girls, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Galactic and 80 other musicians and bands have joined together in a letter to the White House urging action on Gulf coast recovery.7 months after the BP drilling

GRN supporters are charged up to support a healthy Gulf after enjoying a evening at Mondo this past with meaningful discussion, and excellent food, music, art, and even a Hollywood celebrity on hand. Attendees had the opportunity to meet actor Tim Robbins, GRN supporter and narrator of our Gulf Tides video series. Funds raised during

It’s going to be a long road to recovery for the Gulf, and so far, Congress hasn’t passed a single piece of legislation to make sure that the Gulf’s coast and communities are made whole again. With our senators and representatives back in D.C. for one last 2010 session, now is our best chance to

I began the week talking and strategizing about how important a federally-led effort is for comprehensive Gulf restoration, and am closing it out with a reminder of how much more needs to be done to even mitigate the BP impacts.Monday morning found me in Pensacola, attending the first meeting of the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration

Yesterday, November 11, GRN set out on another excursion to assess impacts and clean-up efforts along Louisiana’s coast. We are able to continue with this important work thanks to the generous support of contributors like Threadless, Inc. Threadless CEO Tom Ryan, Art Director Ross Zietz, and Multimedia Specialist Craig Shimala came down from Chicago to

Today was the first day of the final two-day public hearing held by the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling on the causes of the Macondo well blowout. The details of the events and the decisions that were made leading up to the blowout, as recreated by the Commission’s

One Lake Proposal, image courtesy of USACE.In 1979, Jackson, Mississippi experienced one the worst floods in the history of the state – costing half a billion dollars in damages and engulfing much of the state’s capital city. Almost since the floodwaters receded, people have been bickering about the best way to prevent a reoccurrence of

People are always asking me what they can do to help the Gulf. This month, in addition to donating, volunteering, and taking action, you can attend a great event at Mondo, Chef Susan Spicer’s new restaurant in the Lakeview neighborhood of New Orleans.What could be better than supporting GRN while enjoying fabulous hors d’oeurves and