Louisiana Floods: Restoration Will Help Us Build Back Better
In Baton Rouge these past weekends, the “Cajun Navy” was out in force cleaning up after the devastating Louisiana floods that killed 17 people and forced thousands of others to leave their homes. Despite the crushing heat and debris-filled neighborhoods, the mood felt...
Putting Natural Capital to Work: How Business Can Benefit from Landscape-Scale Restoration
This article has been submitted as part of the Natural Capital Coalition‘s series of blogs on natural capital by PJ Marshall, co-founder and executive director of Restore the Earth Foundation. In July, global business leaders welcomed the launch of...
A “Perfect Storm” of Cooperation Along the Gulf Coast
Edwin Piñero; President, The Piñero Group August 8, 2016 Even though we speak often of the value of the Mississippi Delta area and the Gulf Coast in general, many still do not realize how important that area really is. More significantly, many do not...
Louisiana Wetlands Restoration Project Offers Corporate Investors a Social Return
Travel in Pointe aux Chenes, a 35,000-acre swampy marshland southwest of New Orleans, is difficult. The 680 members of the Pointe-au-Chien Tribe who call it home historically used canoes carved from native bald cypress trees – a species often compared in size and...