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Brack: Gulf photos make impact over last three months

AUG. 30, 2010 -- Today marks the 100th photograph posted to our BetterGulf.org photo blog that tells stories in pictures about what's happening along the Gulf of Mexico following the big April Deepwater Horizon well disaster.

Since the beginning of June, the site has offered a new photo every single day. Viewers can see images of oiled and dead birds, fish kills, brown marshes and goo on beaches. There have been breathtaking aerial shots of a sea covered in an oily sheen, marshes colored brown by oil and thick black smoke from oil burn-offs.

But there have been more optimistic photos too -- shots of workers working in burning sun on white sandy beaches to clear tarballs and goop. You've been able to see Coast Guard images of people cleaning oiled birds, eventually setting them free. Thousands gathered in hundreds of places to celebrate Hands Across the Sand to raise awareness of dangers inherent in drilling oil. The Sierra Club placed 10,000 small American flags on the National Mall in Washington to send its message.(READ FULL PIECE)

AGENDA FOR A BETTER SOUTH In November 2009, more than two dozen Southern thinkers met at Davidson College to develop a pragmatic Agenda for a Better South for Southern leaders to use to make things better. Read the Agenda.	POLICY BOOKS The Center offers a dozen ideas on ways to create a more progressive and pragmatic tax code in Doing Better: Progressive Tax Ideas for the American South. In Getting Greener, it offers fresh environmental ideas.
2009 BRIEFING BOOK ON THE SOUTH As a way to prepare participants for the 2009 conference at Davidson, the Center developed a 70-page briefing book with more than 50 pages of statistics about the 11 states of the South. Take a look -- you might find it helpful.	ABOUT THE CENTER The Center for a Better South's mission to develop progressive ideas, policies and information for thinking leaders who want to make a difference in the American South. Click here to learn more about who we are and what we do.

RECENTLY AT THE CENTER
Tapping America's volunteer spirit
By Andy Brack and Skip Rutherford
JULY 1, 2010 -- With oil still spewing into the Gulf after 10 weeks, Americans are becoming increasingly frustrated. How in the world can people in the richest and most technologically inventive country in the world still not get the doggone gusher under control? (Published in TheHill.com)

Burger: Let us pray for the Gulf
JUNE 20, 2010 -- "We are a nation that springs into action when disaster strikes. " More on how BetterGulf.org is helping. ... Ken Burger in The (Charleston, SC) Post and Courier

Brack: Spill images will create record
JUNE 13, 2010 -- Locally and across the country, people are frustrated that things are moving so slowly. They don’t know how to get out of the Groundhog Day-like water torture of oil ... Mobile (Ala.) Press-Register.

Visit our new photo blog, www.BetterGulf.org

2/28/10: Brack -- Make South the envy of the nation, Knoxville (Tenn.) News. PDF
2/21/10: Browder: Listen to the people -- PDF
The Anniston (Ala.) Star
2/19/10: Center testifies on tax structure in SC. PowerPoint presentation
1/31/10: Op-ed: An agenda to improve the South, Athens (Ga.) Banner-Herald
12/13/09: Center's mission profiled, Charleston Post and Courier.
11/19/09: Center challenges South with bold new visions
11/14/09: A changing South. Charlotte Observer
11/13/09: Developing "measureable visions". Statehouse Report
11/10/09: 21st Century agenda for region. So. Political Report
11/9/09: South's cultural barriers. Anniston Star

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