The Green Community week in review: BP’s top kill fail, anti-BP graffiti in Key West, volunteer for Reverb’s summer concert Eco-Villages, and more!

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

Using permaculture to grow a food forest in Tarpon Springs (video) – The goal of this project has been to develop a self sustaining system that can provide food and fuel for the local community.

Sign up for Gulf alert SMS text messaging – The Unified Area Command is launching a new text message alert system for public use. Anyone may sign up to get alerts of interest from the Deepwater Horizon/BP Response Team.

Alex Sink calls on President Obama to have federal government take over oil spill response – In her letter to the President, Sink asks – where in the heck is the government on this crises?

BP prepares 'top kill' in next plan to plug oil well – One month after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, BP is planning its next attempt to stop the massive oil leak with a "top kill" process — pumping a thick mixture of mud and cement into the hole to help with efforts to plug the hole.

This article appears in Jun 3-9, 2010.