On September 20, our Louisiana fundraising event took place at Bayona in the French Quarter and raised significant funds for the campaigns of the Gulf Restoration Network. Ivor van Heerden talked about current issues facing Louisiana’s wetlands. The seventy-five attendees enjoyed samplings of hors d’oeurves by Chef Susan Spicer and her staff, listened to music …
In 2007, the state of Mississippi was granted $600+ million in federal Katrina relief funds to solve sewage and water quality problems exposed by the storm. While much of this money will go to recovery projects, the state wants to use some of these taxpayer dollars to subsidize developers’ projects that threaten Mississippi’s streams, wildlife, …
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 …
This week, GRN released its “Clean Up Your Act!” report card, which graded each of the Gulf states on how well it protects state waters. The report points out problems in state policies that fail to safeguard Gulf waters for swimming and fishing. For example, no Gulf state has numeric standards that would reduce nitrogen …
It has been four years since the man-made failure of Louisiana’s hurricane protection system left New Orleans completely devastated. Decades of coastal erosion spurred on by global warming, the activities of the oil and gas industries, and the inadequate levee system designed by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers allowed Hurricane Katrina to penetrate deep …
Hurricane Ike, the 3rd most costly hurricane on record devastated the upper Texas coast on September 13, 2008. It was a category 2 hurricane with a category 4 storm surge, 112 people were killed and 26 are still missing. Approximately 3500 houses were destroyed on the Bolivar Peninsula. The massive storm surge flooded the inland …
Dear Senator Landrieu,I write this letter to you as a Florida resident of over 40 years, and as a lover of the Gulf of Mexico. While I respect your position as a United States Senator and believe you promote policies which you believe to be in the national interest, I am writing to urge to …
An Open Letter to Senator Landrieu from a Concerned Floridian Read More »
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 …
The Fourth Katrinaversary, Featuring Paradise Faded Read More »
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 …
The Mississippi Chapter of the Sierra Club opposes the highway department’s proposed alternative C four-laning of highway 15 on several grounds.Though a four-lane evacuation route out of Biloxi is inevitable, we cannot support a new “real estate road” cutting across the massive flood plain at the Harrison-Jackson County line. The massive disruption and damage to …