Runway Hair Extensions is still donating hair to the gulf coast oil spill. If you would like to help donate to this cause you can sign up at www.matteroftrust.org!
It is important to make sure that the hair is free of garbage or sharp things!
xoxo Runway Hair
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Beyond the immediate loss of human life, as many as 42,000 gallons of crude oil daily (1,000 barrels) are spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, and it could be months before the BP or Deepwater Horizon is able to turn off the spigot. The oil slick is bigger than the size of Rhode Island. As many as 700,000 gallons of diesel fuel also went down with the rig (enough to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pools, and then some). The damage to the environment from the spill, originating just 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana, could be severe.
Read more: http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/gulf-oil-spill-pictures-0427#ixzz0nCn7GCAu
Read more: http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/gulf-oil-spill-pictures-0427#ixzz0nCn7GCAu
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* Homemade booms developed after 1989 Exxon Valdez spill
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* Hair, pantyhose are weapons in fight against oil slick
* They act as sponge, absorbing and trapping spilled crude (Repeating to delete repeated lines)
By Kelli Dugan
MOBILE, Ala., May 6 (Reuters) - While a vast containment operation dumps gallons of chemical dispersant and lays miles of plastic boom to attack a massive spreading oil slick, some U.S. Gulf Coast residents are turning to more unlikely remedies -- hair and pantyhose.
Shoreline communities threatened by the oil spewing from a ruptured Gulf of Mexico undersea well have started a grassroots campaign to fabricate homemade booms from these mundane materials to help sponge up the tarry mess before it sloshes ashore.
One such drive is under way in Alabama where hair stylist Phil McCory, inspired by TV images of a sea otter soaked with crude, first seized on the idea of using human hair to contain oil slicks after the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska's Prince William Sound.
The homegrown Alabama cleanup effort, aimed at producing as many makeshift oil-absorbing booms or "hairmats" as possible, is being led by Liz Ann Howard-Alvarez of Mobile and Amanda Bacon of Point Clear, who began receiving donations this week at a factory set up in a warehouse in downtown Mobile.
Scores of volunteers are being trained in the rudimentary manufacturing process, which involves using a PVC pipe to stuff a stocking leg full of tightly compacted hair.
The hose is then closed with a twist tie and bundled together with other hair-stuffed legs, before being covered with mesh and readied for deployment to trap and soak up oil.
"People in this area are latching on to this as a way to help because everybody's watching what's going on and feels helpless. This is our chance to help," said Bacon.
DONATIONS OF HAIR
In Destin, a town known for its white sand beaches and pristine emerald waters in northwest Florida, Billie Golden said she and her husband had already signed up about 200 volunteers to aid in the assembly of the rudimentary oil containment booms.
"Hair acts as a sponge. When you put these booms in oil-polluted water, they absorb the oil and leave the water crystal clear," said Billie's husband Jeff Golden, vice president and co-founder of The Sunshine and Shores Foundation in Destin.
Billie Golden said hair was being donated from around the United States, adding that a friend had just called her to say a car-sized load of compacted hair had been dropped off in her driveway.
Hanesbrands (HBI.N), a big marketer of women's sheer hosiery in the United States, said on Thursday it was donating 50,000 pairs of pantyhose to the effort.
"Everybody along the Gulf Coast is doing this through different organizations," said Golden, who said she knew of at least 14 groups from Louisiana to Florida involved in the effort.
"Nobody cares about our beaches more than we do ... As locals we know what the tourism industry means to us and we need to do our part in protecting our beaches," she said.
Like her counterparts in Alabama, Golden said she was working with San Francisco-based Matter of Trust, a nonprofit that began producing "hairmats" in 2007, to collect donations from hair salons across the country.
McCory, reached at his home in Huntsville, Alabama, said he had lobbied unsuccessfully for years to convince coastal communities to stockpile the absorbent homemade mats for quick placement along their shores on the off chance an oil spill disaster occurred.
"I'm not an environmentalist or a tree hugger. I'm just an average guy," said McCory, who added the oil spill from a Gulf of Mexico well owned by BP Plc (BP.L) had not surprised him.
"The oil companies don't ever think something like this is going to happen, but that's like hopping on the Interstate and saying to yourself, 'Well, I've gone 3,000 miles and never had an accident, so it's not ever going to happen'" McCory said. (Editing by Pascal Fletcher and Cynthia Osterman)
* Homemade booms developed after 1989 Exxon Valdez spill
Stocks | Bonds | Global Markets
* Hair, pantyhose are weapons in fight against oil slick
* They act as sponge, absorbing and trapping spilled crude (Repeating to delete repeated lines)
By Kelli Dugan
MOBILE, Ala., May 6 (Reuters) - While a vast containment operation dumps gallons of chemical dispersant and lays miles of plastic boom to attack a massive spreading oil slick, some U.S. Gulf Coast residents are turning to more unlikely remedies -- hair and pantyhose.
Shoreline communities threatened by the oil spewing from a ruptured Gulf of Mexico undersea well have started a grassroots campaign to fabricate homemade booms from these mundane materials to help sponge up the tarry mess before it sloshes ashore.
One such drive is under way in Alabama where hair stylist Phil McCory, inspired by TV images of a sea otter soaked with crude, first seized on the idea of using human hair to contain oil slicks after the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska's Prince William Sound.
The homegrown Alabama cleanup effort, aimed at producing as many makeshift oil-absorbing booms or "hairmats" as possible, is being led by Liz Ann Howard-Alvarez of Mobile and Amanda Bacon of Point Clear, who began receiving donations this week at a factory set up in a warehouse in downtown Mobile.
Scores of volunteers are being trained in the rudimentary manufacturing process, which involves using a PVC pipe to stuff a stocking leg full of tightly compacted hair.
The hose is then closed with a twist tie and bundled together with other hair-stuffed legs, before being covered with mesh and readied for deployment to trap and soak up oil.
"People in this area are latching on to this as a way to help because everybody's watching what's going on and feels helpless. This is our chance to help," said Bacon.
DONATIONS OF HAIR
In Destin, a town known for its white sand beaches and pristine emerald waters in northwest Florida, Billie Golden said she and her husband had already signed up about 200 volunteers to aid in the assembly of the rudimentary oil containment booms.
"Hair acts as a sponge. When you put these booms in oil-polluted water, they absorb the oil and leave the water crystal clear," said Billie's husband Jeff Golden, vice president and co-founder of The Sunshine and Shores Foundation in Destin.
Billie Golden said hair was being donated from around the United States, adding that a friend had just called her to say a car-sized load of compacted hair had been dropped off in her driveway.
Hanesbrands (HBI.N), a big marketer of women's sheer hosiery in the United States, said on Thursday it was donating 50,000 pairs of pantyhose to the effort.
"Everybody along the Gulf Coast is doing this through different organizations," said Golden, who said she knew of at least 14 groups from Louisiana to Florida involved in the effort.
"Nobody cares about our beaches more than we do ... As locals we know what the tourism industry means to us and we need to do our part in protecting our beaches," she said.
Like her counterparts in Alabama, Golden said she was working with San Francisco-based Matter of Trust, a nonprofit that began producing "hairmats" in 2007, to collect donations from hair salons across the country.
McCory, reached at his home in Huntsville, Alabama, said he had lobbied unsuccessfully for years to convince coastal communities to stockpile the absorbent homemade mats for quick placement along their shores on the off chance an oil spill disaster occurred.
"I'm not an environmentalist or a tree hugger. I'm just an average guy," said McCory, who added the oil spill from a Gulf of Mexico well owned by BP Plc (BP.L) had not surprised him.
"The oil companies don't ever think something like this is going to happen, but that's like hopping on the Interstate and saying to yourself, 'Well, I've gone 3,000 miles and never had an accident, so it's not ever going to happen'" McCory said. (Editing by Pascal Fletcher and Cynthia Osterman)
Friday, April 30, 2010
Update on the Gulf Oil Spill
This is from www.matteroftrust.org please join us!
We have been monitoring this spill through the burn off attempts and now we're being told, unofficially, that it is 75 miles off shore in some areas and the weather is turning which may mean the oil doesn't hit shore today.
"Unified Command" has taken over the situation. This happens in every oil spill now when a State of Emergency is declared. It is officially under Homeland Security (HS) now and although Coast Guard and Municipalities and State officials have people in the room, HS makes the final decisions.
We have lots of boom ready to go to where they tell us it will be most effective. If you want to see what "boom" looks like check out our latest youtube. Boom blocks, protects and contains oil spills.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwQOD_Ir2vQ
We know many of you have more hair/fur/waste wool and nylons ready to send. And that many of you are in the affected areas.
Please let us know if you don't want our updates. As you know, we almost never send out mass emails, but this spill is so extreme, we may need your people power to help get noticed by the right people in the room. And we're told we have a bigger chance than the other "alternative oil spill clean up methods" that HS and BP are talking to, because the public will rally around a nationwide community effort like ours.
Best wishes,
Lisa
Lisa Craig Gautier
President
MatterOfTrust.org
We have been monitoring this spill through the burn off attempts and now we're being told, unofficially, that it is 75 miles off shore in some areas and the weather is turning which may mean the oil doesn't hit shore today.
"Unified Command" has taken over the situation. This happens in every oil spill now when a State of Emergency is declared. It is officially under Homeland Security (HS) now and although Coast Guard and Municipalities and State officials have people in the room, HS makes the final decisions.
We have lots of boom ready to go to where they tell us it will be most effective. If you want to see what "boom" looks like check out our latest youtube. Boom blocks, protects and contains oil spills.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwQOD_Ir2vQ
We know many of you have more hair/fur/waste wool and nylons ready to send. And that many of you are in the affected areas.
Please let us know if you don't want our updates. As you know, we almost never send out mass emails, but this spill is so extreme, we may need your people power to help get noticed by the right people in the room. And we're told we have a bigger chance than the other "alternative oil spill clean up methods" that HS and BP are talking to, because the public will rally around a nationwide community effort like ours.
Best wishes,
Lisa
Lisa Craig Gautier
President
MatterOfTrust.org
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
MATTER OF TRUST . ORG
A simple hair cut or donating your old human hair extensions can make a positive impact on our Environment!
All of Runway Hair Extensions come from Indian Temples where these woman donate their hair to satisfy God! The hair is then sold and used at salons across the globe, as hair extensions!
"I feel it is our duty after we have gotten proper use of the hair, to also make an effort to donate the hair to a better cause" says owner of Runway Hair Extensions.
That is why Runway Hair supports www.matteroftrust.org an organization that takes donations of human hair and clippings and uses it to make oil spill hair mats and booms that are used to help save wildlife and help clean up oil spills!
By donating your old clippings and extensions, it closes the loop. You literally are helping create a circle of balance that will impact the world!
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