What’s the buzz on the latest issues in the Green Community? Check out what you may have missed last week:

Using salt as a natural, versatile cleaning aid – Salt. You use it for seasoning your food, but did you know that it is also makes a great cleaning and scrubbing agent as well?

Anti-rail group says they have $75,000 to spend to try to defeat Hillsborough transit tax – Guetzloe acknowledged that among those who have contributed to his campaign is Eastern Hillsborough power broker Sam Rashid, who has dropped $500 to Axe the Tax. He said he hoped Rashid would want to give more when the vote grows near in the fall.

Greenpeace ship expedition investigating Gulf oil disaster to launch from Port of St. Petersburg this Wednesday, August 11 – Greenpeace will be launching its ship, The Arctic Sunrise, on a three-month expedition to investigate the impacts of the Gulf oil disaster from the Port of St. Petersburg, this Wednesday, August 11, at 10 a.m.

"Why does traveling make the world a better place?" Answer and enter to win a carbon-free trip to Machu Picchu – Get the chance to travel along the Inca Trail and marvel at one of the wonders of the world without having to worry about your carbon footprint along the way.

As the world's weather gets more radical, combating climate change seems further away than ever in U.S. – No, climate is weather over an extended period of time. And folks, the record isn't very encouraging. The world is getting hotter. Meanwhile, what are we doing about it? As the PBS News Hour featured last night in a story about the U.S. Senate's recent failure to pass a bill to match the House's 2009 cap-and-trade legislation, very little.

This article appears in Aug 12-18, 2010.