How you and your dog can help fight oil spills
Here's a pretty amazing idea that comes to us from Excess Access .
Your hair -- and your dog's hair -- is being used to make special booms and mats to soak up polluting oils in the ocean.
Phil McCrory, a hair stylist from Alabama, came up with the idea after watching television coverage of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, according to Suite101.com.
A nonprofit organization called Matter of Trust in San Francisco is among groups that recycle
scraps of hair to use as booms, sending boxes to oil spill disaster sites. But don't just send the little snippets from your latest bangs trim -- they need a certain amount of hair in bulk amounts to most efficiently provide what's needed for the booms.
Dog owners and groomers are invited to donate hair and can sign up at Excess Access. So tell your dog groomer and hair stylist.
And check out this video (with some very cool musical accompaniment) to learn more about the program:
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Daily Breeze reporter Donna Littlejohn has shared her homes with a succession of wonderful, funny, and occasionally difficult canines -- Muffin, Fritz, Ellie, Mercy, Pilgrim and now Cowboy, an Australian shepherd-border collie, and Tess, a border collie. From strong-willed terriers to weirdly obsessed Australian shepherds, they've invaded her world with boundless energy, wet noses, muddy paws and soggy tennis balls. But they've really brought so much more than that -- like laughter and joy, some unexpected life lessons, and more than a few tears along the way.
E-mail Donna at donna.littlejohn@dailybreeze.com.
Josh Grossberg grew up with the usual array of animals: goldfish, dogs, hamsters, parakeets and turtles. He now owns the loudest dog in the South Bay(Video: Rocket the Dog) and is the least popular person on his block. He spends his free time in dog parks, pet shops and always has an extra plastic bag in his pocket just in case. He also has a cat.
E-mail Josh at josh.grossberg@dailybreeze.com.
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