What’s the buzz on the latest issues in the Green Community? Check out what you may have missed last week:
EarthTalk: Does oil drilling cause sinkholes or earthquakes? – What, if anything, fills the empty space underground created by the extraction of billions of gallons of oil? Could oil drilling be one of the causes of increasing amounts of land settling and sinkholes in oil rich areas?
Get creative with your trash and enter in Largo's Recycled Innovations Contest – Recycled Innovations are items that may be reused in daily activities. All entries must be functional items made from at least 75% recycled materials that would otherwise end up in the trash.
Honda named 'Greenest Automaker' yet again – It's clear that the American automakers need to step up their game in producing cleaner vehicles. Regardless, due to the ever-increasing push from state and federal emissions laws, they'll have to make efforts for further 'greening' of their fleets in the near future.
Project GreenHands: Restoring our planet, one tree at a time (video) – Since 2005, PGH has facilitated the planting of more than ten million trees by over two million people.
This article appears in Oct 21-27, 2010.