cleanup

 Hair and mushrooms create a recipe for cleaning up oily beaches 

by Meredith May, Chronicle Staff Writer

A group of guerrilla volunteers is cleaning oil from San Francisco's beaches using an unorthodox, albeit totally organic, method: human hair and mushrooms.

Using mats made of hair, they are absorbing the droplets of oil that have washed ashore since a cargo ship rammed the base of a Bay Bridge tower last week, spilling 58,000 gallons of fuel. » read more

If you live in the Chicagoland area, please let me know if you're interested in creating a cleanup group on Earth Day (Wed. Apr. 22nd). I know there will probably be a handful of great opportunities through local villages and towns, but I want to go to the 'forgotten' lands of Chicago and its surrounding counties! I'm hoping if there are enough people interested I can get a where and what we would be doing. Thanks and hope to hear from you all!