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Community Currency - 02/10/11
February 7, 2011 Download this episode (right click and save)
Oil Spill, Hairboom, BP and the Oilpocalypse
Lisa Craig Gautier is Founder and the President of Matter of Trust. They were the most prominent citizen-led task force in the wake of BP / Halliburton / Deepwater Horizon / Gulf oil rig disaster.
They started in 1998 as a non-profitt concentrating on Renewable Resources & Eco-enthusiasts. They like to mimic how Mother Nature integrates enduring cycles and provides access to necessities in abundance. They pioneered gathering surplus materials to create hairbooms to help clean up oil. In 2007 when there was an accident and an oil spill in San Francisco Bay, they helped provide booms to thousands of volunteers who responded quickly to threat to their beaches, their Bay, their environment.
In the wake of the Gulf oil disaster, overnight, their small non-profit ballooned into the most likely method for Americans to do their part in helping protect the Coastline. Tens of thousands of concerned citizens collected hair from salons in 30 countries. It was stuffed into pantyhose by hundreds of volunteers at the Gulf where tons and tons of hairboom were made and ready. The booms are a shockingly effective waste-stream method of soaking up oil, and BPs boom department agreed. Then, to everyones surprise, BPs $900-million PR department smeared and quashed the movement.
Lisa Gautier will join Dr. Riki Ott, Summer Burkes and I on February 10th at the Grand Lake Theater, Oakland, California, at the Oilpocalypse Now event.
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