This week's featured campaign
hopes to flood Washington, D.C. with 300,000 emails to Bush--one for
every Louisiana resident displaced by Katrina and Rita. Effective storm
protection and rebuilding efforts focus on wetland conservation as
prevention. From the Healthygulf blog:

A less-known component of New Orleans’ insecurity is
the crisis facing our coastal
wetlands. Although we know that
each mile of coastal marsh diminishes a foot of
storm-surge
from hurricanes such as Katrina, coastal Louisiana continues to lose a
football
field’s worth of wetlands every 35 minutes to erosion, jeopardizing the
nation’s oil infrastructure, Gulf
seafood production, and, most visibly, our coastal cities. A

comprehensive plan to reintroduce the land-building
power of the Mississippi River into
our dissolving coastal marshes has been written, but
lies in Washington, unfunded
and not prioritized.

The
Gulf Restoration Network is a great example of how viral appeal and
timing can boost your organization's impact ten-fold.

Our
smallish regional organization partnered with DIA in August of this
year with
grand plans to
expand our yahoogroup action alert list to create a tool far more

significant and effective. The overactive hurricane season
stymied much of our
plans, but as we began
our rebuilding process it became apparent that DIA could help us

capture the overwhelming national and regional support for rebuilding
Louisiana and the Gulf
Coast, as well as send much needed pressure to
Washington to commit to Louisiana's
Coast and
Communities.

To take action, visit their campaign.