iPhone Game Features Heroic Fish Dodging Gulf Oil Spill Damage

Image via Elephant Journal We’ve had an influx of iPhone apps based on the Gulf oil spill , and many of them also donate proceeds to helping clean-up efforts. So what makes Puff Puff: Gulf Spill any different? It’s still an app about the life post oil disaster and it donates 30% of net proceeds to ecosystem restoration in the Gulf of Mexico.

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iPhone Game Features Heroic Fish Dodging Gulf Oil Spill Damage

McKibben On Tour, Stops By New York to Inspire Letterman (Video)

photo via 350.org Big props to David Letterman for bringing on Bill McKibben earlier this week to talk to Letterman’s 4 million nightly viewers about global climate change and Bill’s 350.org project . 350.org has a savvy campaign to get the White House to put solar panels back on the roof after Ronald Reagen had them taken off in the 80s. Dave asked some sharp questions about nuclear power and political inaction, and Bill, as always, was ready with sharper answers that added some hope to the fight for an energy revolution

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Does Focusing on Biodiversity Diminish Nature?

photo: ((brian)) via flickr Unless you’ve just started following environmental issues you’re probably aware that biodiversity is declining so much that the planet is seeing species go extinct at a rate a thousand times historical rates of extinction–and that we’re collectively not do a very good job preventing human activity from accelerating that.

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Does Focusing on Biodiversity Diminish Nature?

Versailles-Inspired Tyvek Chandeliers by Paula Arntzen

Images: Artecnica Spun out of synthetic, high-density polyethylene fibers that give it its characteristic durability and lovable crinkly texture, Tyvek is a surprisingly polyvalent material, though it’s typically thought of as house wrap. But there’s a world of recycled Tyvek out there: it’s also popped up as upcycled wallets ,

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Trashy TV Takes On a Whole New Meaning

Reality shows have taken over television, like a virus or a breath of fresh air, depending on your perspective.

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Oxford Dictionary of English Adds Climate Science Vocabulary

Photo by Cofrin Library We love seeing the ways the environmental movement alters mainstream culture, and the degree of its impact can be viewed quickly by just taking a look at the dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary is no slouch on keeping up with new words created in every corner from clean tech to the DIY movement — like when “hypermiling” made it as word of the year in 2008.

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Wilmer Valderrama Bugs Out, the Teen Choice Awards Put on a Sustainable Show, and More

Photo via Blogamole If your reaction to insects is more fearful than interested, then Wilmer Valderrama has a show for you: He’s signed on to produce the Science Channel’s new series “Bugging Out,” which he hopes will get people to stop fearing creepy-crawlies and learn to appreciate them. …

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Australia’s Moreton Bay Could Become a Coral Lifeboat

Though ship traffic and pollution mean that Moreton Bay won’t be idyllic home, it might be just good enough to harbor the world’s threatened corals. Image credit: Cindy Andrie /Flickr Thanks to climate change, pollution, and ocean acidification, the fate of many of the world’s coral reefs is a good as sealed. This leaves biologists and conservationists with the troubling tasks of preservation —where possible—and rehabilitation

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"Millions of Barrels of Oil Safely Reach Port in Major Environmental Catastrophe": Onion

Disaster strikes as massive quantities of oil reach their intended destination. The Onion Yes, the Onion, America’s finest news source, is consistently hilarious

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New Community Garden Rules Offer Weaker Protection Than 2002 Agreement: NY State Lead Attorney

photo: Matthew McDermott To hear NYC Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe describe it, either on WNYC or in the New York Post , the proposed rules governing the City’s hundreds of community gardens are a definite step up from the 2002 …

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