By Robin Sowton
Perhaps you've just started composting. You're dumping leaves and grass clippings into a corner of the yard regularly, but you just haven't got into recycling the kitchen scraps. After all it can be annoying to have banana peels, coffee grains or vegetable trimmings sitting out until it is convenient to take them outside.
Judy Schaffer, Principal at JSO Commercial Interiors, signed up at GSDFW and was selected from all those registered to win an iPad2. She is a licensed interior designer with extensive training in Feng Shui design, Judy stresses environmentally friendly products in her practice. Eighty percent of the furnishings and accessories in her home are either from renewable resources or are repurposed . She is a member of the Green Weavers Meetup. Congratulations, Judy.
Rapidly rising gas prices across the country are shining a spotlight on the dire consequences of America’s dependence on oil. The transportation sector accounts for nearly two-thirds of the more than 19 million barrels of oil consumed each day in the United States. 
Harvey Lacey has a plan. Inspired by a workshop given by Kenyan architect Ronald Omyonga on holistic housing, Lacey has developed a machine for creating plastic blocks out of plastic bags, styrofoam, bottles, and whatever plastic trash people are trying to throw away. These plastic blocks can then be use to build houses.
A 1700-mile Keystone XLpipeline is due here in Texas in 2012.
