If we don't pay attention to history, it has a tendency to repeat.

The Cato Ridge Environmental Coalition began as a kind of community watch group with local area people becoming involved with new business as they move into and around our "neighborhood".
And, it is always instructive to know what is happening in other parts of the world, learn from it, and apply the learning to our own situation.
With that in mind, the author of the following article, Diane Wilson, has a lot ot teach us. She describes herself as "a high school–educated fisherwoman with a pile of kids and a broke-down truck." She plies her trade, shrimp fisherwoman, in the Gulf of Mexico.

Read her article: "The BP oil gusher is just the latest in a long line of assaults on the Gulf of Mexico"