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A snowy morning in Washington, DC has finally given me a moment to catch you up on the whirlwind of activity that’s been happening this weekend at Powershift 09. Powershift has brought together 12,000 students and young people to discuss, collaborate, and advocate for climate change solutions. GRN’s Louisiana Global Warming Organizer, Jonathan Henderson, and […]

Here’s a great editorial from the Biloxi Sun Herald, underscoring the concerns of the Save the Bait coalition. I hope that a few key commissioners pay attention to their request for a little intellectual curiosity towards this ecosystem keystone for a healthy Mississippi Sound.From the editorial: Dr. Vernon Asper, who chairs the commission, has said

Today, February 19th, 2009 is . . . Please pick up your phone right now and call Lowe’s, Home Depot, and Wal-Mart to tell them to say NO to cypress mulch. For more information including phone numbers and talking points, visit the Mardi Gras Time Call-In Day Action Page.

As a budget-cutting measure the State of Florida is considering closing a number of state parks including Egmont Key State Park at the mouth of Tampa Bay, which as been managed since 1989 under a cooperative agreement between the State of Florida and the US Fish & Wildlife Service. Egmont Key is among the few

Despite impassioned calls from national, regional, and local community and conservation organizations to protect habitat for Florida Black Bears, today the Coastal Rivers Basin Board of the Southwest Florida Water Management District voted to allow a controversial land swap to move forward.For more information, read the GRN’s press release,http://healthygulf.org/press-releases/southwest-florida-water-management-district-moves-forward-with-controversial-land-swap.htmlDan Favre is GRN’s Campaign Organizer.

This January 23-25, the Gulf Restoration Network hosted the Students United for A Healthy Gulf Leadership Conference at Tulane University in New Orleans. The group of 22 student leaders attending came from the Gulf Coast of Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi; as well as the New Orleans metro area, in order to gain the knowledge, skills,

February 19th, 2009 is . . . This February 19, 2009, join activists, gardeners, and concerned citizens throughout the Gulf in calling Lowe’s, Home Depot, and Wal-Mart to tell them to say NO to cypress mulch. For more information including phone numbers and talking points, visit the Mardi Gras Time Call-In Day Action Page. If

Save one of America’s last, large free-flowing rivers: Protect the Pascagoula! Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction – in an effort to expand the nation’s petroleum reserve, the Department of Energy is prepared to hollow out a series of salt domes near Richton, Mississippi. In other words, they’re planning on pumping oil back into the

Again, that DC bureau rock star, Bruce Alpert of the Times-Picayune, brings us another painful scoop for the region’s recovery.Yeah, remember that category 5 plan to rebuild Louisiana’s coastal wetlands and defend our communities? The plan Congress passed legislation demanding back in December of 2005? That gave the Corps of Engineers until December 2007 to

Bruce Alpert with the Times-Picayune wrote a great story about Army Corps money in the stimulus package.The Senate Appropriations Committee has included $4.6 billion in money for Army Corps projects. Unfortunately, very little of this money appears to be going to the kind of environmental restoration projects that the Gulf Coast desperately needs. It appears