Fwd: Gulf Spill: Can We Learn to Conserve?

If you have problems viewing this email, please click here to read NRDC Online MAY 2010, VOLUME 2 WILL WE PROTECT GULF WILDLIFE? The Gulf of Mexico, which supplies as much as a third of America's domestically caught seafood, is at risk of becoming a giant "no fishing" zone after the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform disaster. Eminent marine biologist Daniel Pauly spoke with OnEarth about the expected impacts of the BP oil spill, the damage it will likely cause to ocean life and the hope that this disaster could provide an opportunity for rebirth. Watch the audio slideshow. Read the full interview with Daniel Pauly. See all of NRDC's Gulf oil spill coverage. CO2 Smackdown, Step 5: Low-Cost Cooling Before the full heat of summer hits, take steps to shrink your AC use and your energy bill with our guide to passive cooling. Read the article. Change Shouldn't Be This Hard It's time for our politicians to break their addiction to Big Oil so we can break ours. It's time for clean American energy. Check out NRDC's call for Senate action on YouTube. Tell your senators to pass energy legislation that will prevent future oil spills. Take action now » Obama's Man in the Gulf On the eve of retirement, Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen was tasked with cleaning up BP's mess and protecting Gulf Coast shores from a massive oil spill. Read our exclusive interview about how he's helping reshape the government's approach to safeguarding our seas. Rocky Kistner, press secretary On the Water Next to the Oil Slick, Dolphins Swimming Nearby "Gulls, terns and frigate birds circled overhead, oblivious to the toxic soup below. The smell quickly overcame us. It was a sharp, pungent stench of petroleum and diesel. It was ugly to see and depressing to witness. What lay underneath the water no one could tell. But the reddish brown pollutant was about two football fiends wide. And we had no idea how far it stretched." Read the post. To subscribe to NRDC Online or to read it on the web, go to http://www.nrdc.org/newsletter/. NRDC Online is a weekly email newsletter from the Natural Resources Defense Council, the nation's most effective environmental action organization. To learn more about what we do and how to become a member of NRDC, please visit www.nrdc.org or write to us at nrdcinfo@nrdc.org. © Copyright 2010 Natural Resources Defense Council Photo credits -- Lorna Baldwin, PBS NewsHour; Simple Steps: I, Timmy/Flickr