{"id":3646,"date":"2010-10-12T14:24:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T18:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=3646"},"modified":"2010-10-12T15:03:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T19:03:13","slug":"get-your-green-top-green-news-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2010\/get-your-green-top-green-news-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Your Green: In The News This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/?attachment_id=3647&amp;source=blog_post139\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3647\" title=\"Photo Credit: Adam.J.W.C., 2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/10_12_greennews-548x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"548\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/10_12_greennews-548x207.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/10_12_greennews-300x113.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Windpower meets web powerhouse: Google looks to invest up to $5 billion in wind farms<\/strong> to fuel its growing data centers.\u00a0[<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/industries\/energy\/environment\/2010-10-12-google-wind_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip\">USA Today<\/a><\/strong>]\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Brazilian government is set to auction off substantial plots of the Amazon rainforest to private lumber companies<\/strong> in an attempt to &#8220;reduce demand for illegal logging.&#8221; But will controls be tough enough? Stay tuned.\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE69A4FI20101012?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader  \">Reuters<\/a>]\n<p><strong>Pop Art: Learn how to make a chic handbag from soda can pull-tabs<\/strong>. Need inspiration? Check out our <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/uncommongoods.com\/product\/pop-can-clutch?source=blog_post136\" target=\"_self\">Pop Can Clutch<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/uncommongoods.com\/product\/pop-can-clutch?source=blog_post136\" target=\"_self\">UncommonGoods<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/planetgreen.discovery.com\/fashion-beauty\/make-an-edgy-handbag-from-soda-cans.html\">Naturally Savvy via Planet Green<\/a>]\n<p>London graffiti star\u00a0<strong>Banksy makes a bold, environmental statement in his newly-directed intro on The Simpsons:<\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5660618\/this-is-the-simpsons-title-scene-secretly-created-by-banksy\">Gizmodo<\/a>]\n<p><strong>He&#8217;s only 11 years old, but organic food activist Birke Baehr is making headlines <\/strong>for his impassioned talks about genetically modified food. Watch him take the stage <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/planetgreen.discovery.com\/food-health\/11-year-old-organic-food-activist-explains-whats-wrong-with-our-nations-food-system.html\">here<\/a><\/strong>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/planetgreen.discovery.com\/food-health\/11-year-old-organic-food-activist-explains-whats-wrong-with-our-nations-food-system.html\">Planet Green]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Noise pollution makes the list as a top offender<\/strong>, reports the National Academy of Engineering: &#8220;Naturally quiet places are an endangered species in the U.S.&#8221;\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2010\/10\/in-us-cutting-carbon-and-noise-pollution-go-hand-in-hand.php?campaign=th_rss\">Tree Hugger<\/a>]\n<p>Sharpen your pencils! Naturally Savvy discovers a <strong>cool, green recycled newspaper\u00a0 pencil that rocks her word.<\/strong> We&#8217;re huge fans of the smencil, too. Check them out <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/uncommongoods.com\/product\/colored-smencils-set-of-10?source=blog_post136\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a><\/strong>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/uncommongoods.com\/product\/colored-smencils-set-of-10?source=blog_post136\">UncommonGoods <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturallysavvy.com\/mommy-and-me\/write-green-with-recyced-newspaper-pencils\">Naturally Savvy<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil auctions off its rainforest, an 11-year old activist takes the stage, The Simpsons makes a bold eco-statement, and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}