Friday Web Roundup

• Get your green Halloween tips from the Green Inc. bloggers.
• Fast Company explains what "smart garages" of the future are all about.
• Global warming is killing off plant species at Walden Pond.
• GOOD Magazine interviews Malcolm Gladwell about green roofs.
• Treehugger posts 22 fix-it videos that help people prevent e-waste and save money.
• A BP Pipeline bursts at Prudhoe Bay.
• Oprah calls Kindle her "new favorite thing in the world."
• Frommer's publishes 500 Places to See Before They Disappear guide book.
• Google wants to get more involved in the renewable energy business.
• The Seattle Times reported that seven orcas who regularly visited the Puget Sound are likely dead; dwindling chinook salmon populations might be to blame.
• Joe Romm blasts NBC for not mentioning global warming during a story about bark beetles in Colorado.
• EcoGeek blogs about the UK's Algae Biofuels Challenge.
• Transit agencies may have to pay billions of dollars to banks because of the credit crisis.
• People are downsizing to 154-square-foot homes to cope with the economic crisis.
• National Journal allows energy experts to weigh in on whether the financial crisis will stall energy projects (Frances Beinecke, NRDC's President, commented). Triple Pundit pointed me to the post.
• EU governments approve a new law to cap greenhouse gases from any airline flying into or out of the trade bloc. NRDC blogger Jake Schmidt wrote about it here. 
• Wired writes about a hydrokinetic generator that could tap into energy created from the vibrations of slow-moving ocean water around offshore oil rig cables.
• Green Tech Pastures shares the results of the EPA's green power ranking for Fortune 500 companies.
• Reuters reports that power-producer Dynegy will disclose financial risks from global climate change.

On Switchboard this week:

• I know! Let's have a 10-day comment period on a document no one can find! (Andrew Wetzler)
• When will they ever learn? (Louisa Willcox)
• The drive-to-lunch syndrome (Kaid Benfield)
• The geography of foreclosures, home values continues to expose sprawl (Kaid Benfield)
• Massey vs. Mountains and Bo Knows Mountaintop Mining (Rob Perks)
• R.I.P. Durango, Tahoe, and Suburban... (Rich Kassel)
• R.K. Pauchari Speaking to a Room Full of Journalists (Eric Young)
• No On California Prop. 7 and Gov. Schwarzenegger: No on Prop. 7 (David Pettit). See all Switchboard posts on the California ballot initiatives here.
• FMC and NEPA: Allow Me to Introduce You (Adrian Martinez)
• The FMC Picks a Fight (David Pettit)
• A Cheeseburger Could Destroy the World (Elaina De Meyere)
• Over: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point (Kaid Benfield)
• California's 2009 Water Supply Announcement Demonstrates Need to Tap Into the "Virtual River" (Doug Obegi)
• Live. Eat. Shop. Spawn. Portland's salmon-safe urban neighborhood (Kaid Benfield)
• Global warming solutions: Just the stimulation we need (Pete Altman)
• Parting Shots: Bush administration's 11th hour wildlife assault (Josh Mogerman)
• Why Dirty Fuel Companies Should be Worrying (Peter Lehner)
• Breast Cancer Awareness: From Pink Ribbons to a Right to Know Law (Frances Beinecke)
• Is ENERGYSTAR broken? No, but DOE sure (Lane Burt)
• Bisphenol A: Scientists Rip Apart FDA Report (Sarah Janssen)
• FDA continues to ignore BPA science, has another shot (Sarah Janssen)
• Behind the Price Drops (Phil Gutis)
• EPA denies NRDC petition to cancel bee-toxic pesticide carbaryl (Jennifer Sass)
• Offshore Drilling: All Trick, No Treat (Rob Perks)
• Happy Halloween: Except for Bats and Wolves (Josh Mogerman)
• A night to celebrate walkable neighborhoods (Kaid Benfield)

Think I missed anything really great out there this week? Feel free to share it in the Comments section. Happy Halloween!