As the BP oil spill moves from being a short and bloody battle to a long and drawn out war, frustrating news surfaced this week: 1) In an Alabama wildlife refuge affected by the spill, even possessing a camera is prohibited (video, after the jump); 2) BP apparently won’t use peat moss to help clean up the oil because it won’t be able to sell the oil afterwards. In other green news, China now emits on a per person basis more than France, which means that China can no longer claim to be a developing nation; a board game from the 1970s, called “BP Offshore Oil Strike”, strangely predicts today’s current affairs; Walmart, KFC… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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‘Pulpo Paul’ sits on a box with decorated with a Spanish flag. AFP photo via Hürriyet Daily News While fans of Spain and the Netherlands wait with bated breath to see which team will come out on top in tomorrow’s World Cup championship match, the owners of a Ger… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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‘Psychic’ Octopus Picks Spain as World Cup Champ (Video)

Image via Ecouterre . Come September, one of the largest textile recycling initiatives in the nation will launch in New York City, the Associated Press reports (via Ecouterre ). In 2008, over 190,0… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Photo via Oceana Entourage actor Adrian Grenier suited up for a new Oceana PSA that finds him diving in for a swim with one some of the ocean’s fastest hunters: bluefin tuna. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Adrian Grenier Swims with Tuna, Pearl Jam Supports Ocean Conservation, and More

Don’t Make a Wave Committee members and Greenpeace founders (from left) Jim Bohlen, Paul Cote, and Irving Stowe. Photo: Greenpeace Jim Bohlen: 1926-2010 Jim Bohlen, one of the co-founders of Greenpeace, died on Monday, a day after his 84th birthday. The cause of death was complications of Parkinson’s disease. He first stepped on the world stage when he co-founded the Don’t Make a Wave Committee in opposition to nuclear weapons tests in Alaska. The committee “leased the halibut fishing vessel Phyllis Cormack, and, after renaming it Greenpe… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Greenpeace Co-Founder Jim Bohlen Dead at 84

Images: Be Palettø We’ve sung the praises of the humble shipping pallet as an amazingly versatile building component before (take a look at Lloyd’s comprehensive roundup ). Now a group of eleven students at Denmark’s Aarhus School of Architecture have come up with a lovely outdoor pavilion that shows once again what is possible with the pallet. Dubbed Be Palettø , the temporary structure features 420 strategically-stacked pallets which give a dynamic twist to an otherwise tr… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Be Palettø: Danish Pavilion Of Recycled Shipping Pallets

Photo: Wikipedia , public domain. “The Mir-2 captain underlined that the subs were probably the only deep-sea vessels in the world capable of stopping the leak.” What if the Russian Mir submarines could stop the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, and the Russians say that they are ready to help, but BP never asks? That seems to be what is happening right now. Read on for details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Could the Russian Mir Submersible Stop the Oil Leak?

Drilling the relief well. Photo via WSJ If all goes according to plan, the gusher behind the Gulf spil l will be plugged a month earlier than planned, BP says. This, of course, is months and months after they originally said they’d have the thing plugged, but mark this down as (extremely) tentative good news. That the company is pushing to cap the geyser by July 20-27th doesn’t seem like a coincidence, either — the… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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BP Says it Could Cap Leak by July 20th

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Today on Planet 100: Oil Minefield (Video)

Photo: Geeky Gadgets When Less is More Apple’s iPad is a best-seller, and so of course accessories are also selling well. Many people are getting stands to hold their iPad in an upright position, but the nice folks at Geek Gadgets show us that with a little ingenuity and a handful of pencils and rubber bands, you can make your own DIY iPad stand…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Make a DIY Pencil iPad Stand with Pencils & Rubber Bands