Harvesting cypress for mulch destroys the Gulf Coast, but Lowe’s continues to sell it while simultaneously touting their corporate environmental policies and concern for the planet’s forests. Pick up your phone today to help call out the company’s hypocrisy!

You and I know that cypress forests serve many roles in their ecosystems, but Lowe’s apparently thinks they’re more useful ground up in plastic bags in the gardening department.

Many of the cypress swamps being cut for mulch are not coming back, and yet the product remains on the shelves when sustainable alternatives (like pine bark, pine straw, eucalyptus, melaleuca, etc.) are readily available. Contradicting their own corporate policies, Lowe’s is fostering the permanent destruction of a national treasure, but you can help end the mulch madness!

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Once you’ve called Lowe’s, feel free to let Home Depot and Wal-Mart know what you think about cypress mulch too.

by Tom Huff
Regional Vice President, Big Tex Energy Corporation

Alright – I’ve been on this e-agitation list long enough to figure out what’s really going on. I first joined up to send an e-mail to rebuild the coast in the wake of Katrina and Rita, but these healthy gulfers are doing a lot more than that! Please don’t support the Gulf Restoration Network!

It’s all well and good to rebuild Louisiana, Mississippi and the marsh (especially if Big Tex Energy doesn’t have to spend our own capital to make it happen), but in the past few months these tree-huggers at healthygulf.org have gone too far.

They’ve posted films arguing that oil companies should pay to fix the coast, just because scientists think our canals and pipelines played a big role screwing it up. They’ve beaten back our energy projects, just because they were going to kill a few million fish. Not only have they linked big storms like Katrina to global warming (global whining, I say), they’ve gone so far as to say that energy corporations should be doing more to fight it.

Enough is enough. Putting some of my company’s vast resources to use, I’ve gotten our tech team to hack their Website so I can speak directly to the rest of the hoodwinked public on this list.

They’re asking people to be one of their ‘fifty friends for a Healthy Gulf.’ DON’T DO IT!

This type of response just encourages them, and will only help them make more trouble for me, and my friends with Shell, ExxonMobil, and the rest of the ‘record prices and record profits’ club.

It’s the first day of April – so they’ll be gearing up to find their 50 supporters for the month to help them restore the coast, fight the dead zone, rebuild fish populations, blah, blah, blah.

So go ahead and unsubscribe, now that I’ve clued you in to their hidden agenda. Whatever you do, don’t become one of April’s 50 friends.

P.S. I’m too busy running Big Tex to send e-mails every month to warn you off this heroic-sounding cause, so whatever you do, DON’T make your donation a ‘reoccurring’ donation, so I have to take time away from building pipelines through the marsh to ask again.

The Gulf Restoration Network is a diverse network of local, regional, and national groups and individuals (some with a sense of humor, some not-so-much) dedicated to protecting and restoring the valuable resources of the Gulf of Mexico. Don’t worry, the GRN will not sell or share your information, and we’ll always try to keep bad corporate actors from hacking our site.

Don’t visit the group’s Website at HealthyGulf.Org.

Just found out about one lone guy holed up somewhere in New Orleans blogging. Haven’t had time to check it out much yet. Here’s the link:

LJ The Interdictor

Also check out this story with links to other bloggers dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Bloggers Emerge As Information Sources in Hurricane Katrina’s Aftermath

This one looks particularly good, and includes maps and information that the French Quarter and Uptown floods are not nearly as bad as shown on TV news.

New Orleans Metroblog