The big picture: Building ‘a rig’ to save the coast

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THE IDEA: A Baton Rouge-based nonprofit called the Restoration Initiative in the Gulf (RIG) Foundation has gone public with a unique new coastal restoration idea: building an ecolodge at the edge of the Louisiana marsh in the shape of an offshore oil platform. The foundation announced in July the launch of a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign

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