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02 Jun 2010
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Nancy Sharon Collins wrote a new blog post: The Spill’s Over, Hope the Wetlands Aren’t 1 year, 9 months ago · View
Help the wetlands not disappear—vote to support this educational show about the importance and survival of one of our most precious natural resources: http://gulf.refresheverything.com/category5 “Before the massive BP Oil Spill threatened Louisiana’s coast, scientists had calculated that the state was losing a football field worth of marshland every 38 minutes. It had been predicted that within the decade [...]
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Nancy Sharon Collins commented on the blog post Spill Baby Spill 1 year, 10 months ago · View
Hi Jackie, Louisiana is also dependent on oil for its economy and livelihood of my neighbors, friends and peers. However, it is an unhealthy relationship of co-dependence and enablement on which we have, thus far thrived. I yet depend on my car to go to and return from everything I do (even to access the [...]
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Nancy Sharon Collins wrote a new blog post: Spill Baby Spill 1 year, 11 months ago · View
This is day 66 in our historic oil spill here in the Gulf of Mexico, and I’d like to clarify this word we so freely bandy about for a remarkable, and terribly sad, ecological, man-made event unfolding in my back yard. Following please read the Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition for “spill”, I was surprised by the fact that [...]
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Nancy Sharon Collins wrote a new blog post: 40% of America’s Wetlands; the BP Oil Disaster 1 year, 11 months ago · View
I’d like to clarify a rather emotional point I made in the Sustainability break out session at the AIGA Leadership Retreat in Chattanooga involving my pronouncement that Louisiana is home to 40% or America’s wetlands. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126717550 The British Petroleum event unfolding off of my home state’s coast is the largest oil “spill” in the U.S. and is [...]
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Nancy Sharon Collins wrote a new blog post: The History of New Orleans Green Salons 1 year, 11 months ago · View
AIGA New Orleans began their first Green Salon iniative in March, 2008 . It was a landmark event; for our itty-bitty chapter we had a successful turn-out of over one hundred people. The acadmic community lauded the all day affair highlighted by a special performance of the Thelonious Monk Jazz Ensemble playing Somewhere, composed and dedicated to the launch [...]
