by taylor | Nov 1, 2016 | News, Uncategorized
By Sean Ellis, The Houma Courier A nonprofit organization broke ground today on an initiative to restore 1 million acres of land in the Mississippi River Basin with the planting of trees in Pointe-aux-Chenes. P.J. Marshall, co-founder and executive director of the...
by taylor | Oct 31, 2016 | News, Uncategorized
By Kevinisha Walker, The Houma Courier Until the mid-20th century, bald cypress filled 4,000 acres of Pointe-aux-Chenes’ forested wetlands, but erosion, sinking land and Gulf of Mexico storms have since destroyed most of them. In 2002, an oil and gas company tried to...
by taylor | Oct 28, 2016 | News, Uncategorized
Oct. 28, 2016 – “You have our total support,” Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Charlie Melancon pledged Thursday to a national organization attempting to restore some 1 million acres of land along the Lower Mississippi River Basin, or as...
by taylor | Oct 25, 2016 | News, Uncategorized
Pointe-aux-Chenes, Louisiana—October 2016—On October 27, Restore the Earth Foundation will break ground on a bold new landscape-scale restoration project to restore one million acres of degraded land in the lower part of the Mississippi River Basin— a vast...
by taylor | Oct 20, 2016 | News, Uncategorized
On November 4, the historic Paris Agreement for global action on climate change will enter into force, catalyzing collective action by governments, civil society organizations, and businesses to collaborate on building a 2°C future. “Now we must move from words to...
