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Overload: New Gulf Oil Spill, Knut Is Dead, and More

A new Gulf oil spill, Knut the dead polar bear, and more of what we're reading at GOOD Environment HQ.

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Grassroots Mapping: How You Can Create Aerial Cartography for Under $100, and Use It to Do Good

How to capture your own aerial imagery that's higher resolution than NASA's, for about $100.

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Protei: An Open Source Fleet of Oil Spill Cleaning Robot Drones

Move over, Kevin Costner. There's a new oil spill cleaning robot in town. And this one is being developed for purpose, not profit.

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"Accidental Earth Experiment" Prize to BP for Gulf Oil Spill

BP wins an ignoble award for "remarkable corporate focus on negligence and incompetence." And for helping scientists discover some amazing things.

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Gulf Spill Panel Urges Tougher Offshore Drilling Oversight Necessary

The Gulf oil spill panel issued their final report and recommendations to the president. They are both extreme and entirely reasonable.

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Washington Slams Oil Companies with Civil Lawsuit

Washington is suing BP, Transocean, and seven other companies under the Clean Water Act and Oil Pollution act for the Gulf oil spill.

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Jimmy Fallon and Brian Williams Slow-Jam the Clean Energy News

Jimmy Fallon, Brian Williams, and the Roots do the impossible: Make clean energy news sexy.

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Oil Spill Art That is Made from BP Oil

A money-raising art project is using oil collected from the BP oil spill to create posters that will help fund the relief.

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Yes Men Punk Redux: Create Your Own Chevron "We Agree" Ad

Last week the Yes Men punked Chevron. Now they want you to create your own "We Agree" ad to keep the campaign going.

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NRDC and StoryCorps Bring You Oral Histories of Gulf Life After BP

Six months after the fatal Deepwater Horizon explosion, NRDC and StoryCorps have partnered to bring oral histories of life in the post-BP gulf.

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Picture Show: How Shrimpboat Captains Became American Heroes After the Oil Spill

A slow storm. That's how the photographer Michael Koehler describes the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. With some area waters closed to fishing during the season in which fishermen make 75 percent of their annual income, locals like Ricky Robin—a seventh generation shrimper Koehler began photographing in 2008—are lucky to find work cleaning the oil.