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I had the occasion recently to hear Carl Hiaasen speak over on the east coast of Florida. He, as usual, was funny and inspiring and he spoke about the absurdities and beauty that are all things Florida. One thing he said stuck with me and I am reminded of it this week as I consider […]

As Hanukkah hits, it’s time to gear up for holiday gift-giving. I know your local newspaper and favorite magazine have all suggested that you support their advertisers, but what’s an environmentally aware, Gulf-minded shopper to do?Well, your friends at the GRN thought we should go ahead and cash in, I mean weigh in with a

Saturday was awesome… it was my first protest! We got about a dozen people together, held one really big banner and a bunch of posters.We started at Lowe’s where my roomie (Ian) and Leslie went inside and tried to purchase mulch as suggested in some of the literature you guys sent us. Leslie then presented

Casey, a GRN intern, was already home in New Jersey for Thanksgiving on the Save Our Cypress Day of Action. We missed her at the New Orleans event that she had done so much to help organize, but she managed to make a splash in New Jersey. Ew, cypress mulch. After lamenting the presence of

Ashley in Charlotte sent along these photos from the event they held in Charlotte, NC. She told me that the day went well. The management of Lowe’s let the activists educate customers for an hour and a half before finally asking them to leave. The women left behind a lingering memory of their visit on

Our favorite testimony to the need for NEPA (the National Environmental Policy Act) and Army Corps reform, the Mississippi River – Gulf Outlet, is back in the news today, with an editorial in the Times-Picayune urging quick implementation of the 170 day closure plan. We wholey concur, though we think the plan needs to do

The New York Times editorial staff put it best when they wrote “like an indestructible ghoul in a low-grade horror flick, the Yazoo Pumps are rising again from the bureaucratic crypt.” First proposed in 1941, the Yazoo Pumps are nothing short of a reoccurring nightmare. This World War II era project would, according to the

Tampa Day of Action went well. I went to two Wal-Marts and really got the attention of the store managers.The first store (closest to my apt) I lucked out and got to speak to the store general manager and a regional manager that happened to be there. When I started telling them why I was

View full size Vivian Todd, Magnolia Garden Club (Zone IX) and members of the Conservation Committee visit Lowe’s in Beaumont, TX on November 17, 2007 during the CYPRESS CALL FOR ACTION DAY. Unfortunately, we found lots of bags of cypress mulch from Ruston, Louisiana. They were asking Lowe’s to stop selling cypress mulch and to

I intended to write this a while ago, but I’ve been ludicrously busy lately – and well, sometimes things just don’t get done as intended. Mea culpa aside, I wanted to make sure our blog-reading supporters know that back in October, GRN was the official non-profit partner of the Voodoo Music Experience, one of the