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Government Homelessness Programs: A MS Gulf Coast Triptych

Thursday, January 31, 2008

HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson has approved MS Governor Haley Barbour’s plan to divert $600 of Federal Community Development Block Grant funds from low-income housing recovery to a Port Expansion Plan in Gulfport.
In his letter to Gov. Haley Barbour, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson said that although he’s concerned about using the housing money […]

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The Worst Environmental Disaster in the United States Since the Exxon Valdez

Friday, November 16, 2007

What’s the headline refer to? Hurricane Katrina’s deforestation of the Gulf Coast, primarily Mississippi.
New satellite imaging has revealed that hurricanes Katrina and Rita produced the largest single forestry disaster on record in the nation — an essentially unreported ecological catastrophe that killed or severely damaged about 320 million trees in Mississippi and Louisiana.
The die-off, […]

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Why Kill a Tree to Grow a Flower?

Friday, August 10, 2007

Cypress swamps are clear-cut and entire trees are ground up to make cypress garden mulch. Wal-Mart, Home Depot, and Lowe’s are driving destruction of the Gulf’s best natural storm protection by selling cypress mulch all over the country. It’s time they stopped.
Get more info and ideas for activism at the Gulf Restoration Network.
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