Stuff We Found Today - 06.09.09

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Family, Kids & Health Stuff

• Phthalates Used in Plastics and Beauty Products Can Weaken Bones - (Eco Child's Play) "...Phthalates provoke DNA damage that can lead to bone cell death..."

Food Stuff

• Celebrities Tell DeNiro's Nobu Restaurant To Drop The Bluefin Tuna - (Ecorazzi)
  

Home Stuff

• Flip Your Mattress...to a Recycler - (TheDailyGreen) "How to recycle your used bed."
• The Best New Green Cleaning Products - (Eco Child's Play) Great list of new products to try out.
• EarthTronics' Home Wind Turbine Coming to Ace Hardware This Fall - (Fast Company)
• A House You Can Heat with a Hair Dryer - (EcoGeek) "Leave it to Germany to create Passivhaus, an extremely rigorous standard for home energy efficiency that makes houses so efficient that they can take on a German winter with nothing more than the heat from a hair dryer."

Beauty & Fashion Stuff

• 9 safer shopping tips from the pros @ Skin Deep - (Enviroblog) If your shopping for beauty products...
  

Tech & Science Stuff

• Green Your computer Use: Screen Savers - (Sierra Club: The Green Life) "Save energy by avoiding the hypnotic graphics..."
• Solar Powered Blue Car Hitting the Streets in 2010 - (Inhabitat)
• The nPower PEG: The Lazy Man's Kinetic Charger - (GadgetAddiction.com)
  

Work & Business Stuff

• Video: Understanding green collar jobs - (Mother Nature Network) "A five-part video series by the Brooklyn Business Summit explains green collar jobs." (videos in post)
• Green Job Listings - June 8, 2009 - (Green Gigs)
  

School, College & Student Stuff

• UC Berkeley Student Graduates with 'Small Green World' on Cap - (EarthFirst) "One University of California at Berkeley student definitely stood out from the crowd at graduation this year, with a ‘small green world’ on his cap complete with a working solar panel."
• Green College Spotlight: University of Florida at Gainesville - (EarthFirst)

Nature & Environment Stuff

• Assignment Earth: Smart timber - (Mother Nature Network) "Buying certified wood products encourages regulated, sustainable logging that actually saves more trees than total protection." (video in post)
• Plastic vs. plankton in the world's oceans - (Mother Nature Network) There is now "more plastic than plankton" in our oceans...NOT GOOD! (video in post)
• The Sky May Be Falling, But We Can Fix It - (Clean Technica) Yes we can!
  

Arts, Entertainment & Travel Stuff

• 10 Endangered Vacations - (TheDailyGreen) "Each of these vacation ideas is located in a landscape that is threatened in some way -- whether by global warming, mining, extreme weather or by another environmental hazard."
• Ted Danson Talks About New Ocean Doc, Urges People To Help - (Ecorazzi) "The film, which Danson narrates, reveals the impact of overfishing on our oceans." (video in post)
  

Website Stuff

• Kid-friendly ocean websites - (Mother Nature Network) "...a few great kid-friendly resources for learning about our amazing oceans..."
• One Million Acts of Green - "When we all do one act, we act as one, and help the planet"
  

International Stuff

• Dozens Dead After Police Open Fire on Indigenous Oil Protesters in Peruvian Amazon - (EarthFirst)

Political, Social & Economy Stuff

• Obama Orders Odeirno To Shave Colbert's Head - (TakePart Social Action Network) Haha...and for a little amusement... (video in post)
  
• Behind the Scenes: the overseas trip, Jun 2-7 - (Obama Pics Daily)
• Greenroots: Submit Your Questions to California Gov. Candidate Gavin Newsom - (Chelsea Green)

Other Random Cool Stuff

• For Father's Day...15% off Solio chargers - Plug into the sun! - (EcoAvenueLTD) "15% Solio Classic, Use promo code FATHERS09. Promo till June1 to 30 Only."
• The 21 things Americans should be recycling but aren't - (ecollo)
  
• High as a Park in the Sky - (ecofabulous) "Urban ecophiles, rejoice! The High Line, New York’s long anticipated park in the sky, finally opens to the public today (June 9)."