Category Archives: Fun / Offbeat

Joe Mohr in Fun / Offbeat 378 days ago

With all the news (and common sense) about the harmful effects of various weed killers, I’d like to arm our readers with a free, earth-friendly weed killer. Scroll down to access your free, earth- friendly weed killer. Yep, it’s your hands. I am arming you with your own hands. The thumb and index finger can… Read More…

Allison Boyer in Fun / Offbeat 420 days ago

Need a reason not to litter? How about this: just one piece of trash can create a life-threatening problem for wildlife. From JeffBridges.com: Bill Driver, who lives in Wichita, KS, saw a ball bouncing around kind of strange in the lake and went to investigate. It turned out to be a flathead catfish who had… Read More…

Joe Mohr in Fun / Offbeat 462 days ago

China’s latest approach to controlling their population may be to sell Hummers…umm, read on…

Shirley Siluk Gregory in Fun / Offbeat 481 days ago

Architect Howard Liddell has come up with a word to describe misfired green efforts that’s so brilliant I wanted to smack my forehead and say, “Why didn’t I this of that?” The word: “eco-bling.” As an article in The Irish Times describes it, eco-bling is well-intended and expensive green technology that, once you crunch the… Read More…

Joe Mohr in Fun / Offbeat 505 days ago

Stuck in traffic the other day and surrounded by an army of traffic cameras, I was forced to pay closer attention to the street signs at a busy intersection. It was at this intersection where I saw this sign and thought that it really defines our present situation. “Left Turn” referring to the political/social change… Read More…

Allison Boyer in Fun / Offbeat 520 days ago

Starting with the release of Paul Blart: Mall Cop on May 19, Sony’s standard-def, single-disk DVD releases will be greener than ever before. According to reports, the DVD cases will be made with 20% less plastic, and the paper will be 30% post-consumer recycled content. They’re also doing away with any cardboard outer sleeves. From… Read More…

Shirley Siluk Gregory in Fun / Offbeat 537 days ago

Any one out there care to try this? The UK’s Register Hardware this week features a video in which Blake Farrow, a US “boffin” (for “eggead”), as they describe him, shows how to make a working solar cell using such odd ingredients as powdered donuts, Starbucks tea, a pencil, cellophane tape and Everclear. It might… Read More…

Dave Harcourt in Fun / Offbeat 565 days ago

In many parts of Africa the buffer between local inhabitants and wild animals is very narrow. In Kenya elephants from the Ol Pejeta Conservancy were moving out at night and destroying small farmer’s fields of staple food such as maize and banana. After trying many schemes to control the elephants, including planting chilies which were supposed to repel them,… Read More…

Allison Boyer in Fun / Offbeat 576 days ago

Dreamscapes, Inc. announced today that they’ve received Institute for Green Business Certification, Inc. certification, officially making them the greenest company in the adult industry. From the press release: Last year, Dreamscapes, LLC introduced the Sex Toy Recycling Program, enabling consumers to mail in their old, broken or used (but cleaned) adult toys. This program offers… Read More…

Adam Williams in Fun / Offbeat 581 days ago

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently put out an extensive list — 112 tidbits long — for how to get extra uses from numerous household items: banana peels, nail polish, marshmallows, milk, Alka Seltzer, alumininum foil, dryer sheets, baking soda, beer… A few examples:

Jennifer Lance in Fun / Offbeat 584 days ago

The NFL has gone green with organic Super Bowl t-shirts celebrating the Pittsburgh Steeler’s victory over the Arizona Cardinals. Eco-friendly Super Bowl® Championship Locker Room t-shirt from Reebok® features the full-color team logo, NFL® Shield, and Super Bowl® XLIII Champions graphic screen-printed on the chest. Green stitching on the shoulder and inside neck seams distinguishes… Read More…

Amy Bell in Fun / Offbeat 584 days ago

Eco-anxiety: the growing anguish experienced by someone who can’t handle the thought that they are in any way contributing to global warming, species extinction, depleting natural resources, and the like. Does this sound like you?  If so, maybe it’s time to seek eco-therapy. Some experts say all the worst-case scenario/gloom and doom type stories about… Read More…

Allison Boyer in Fun / Offbeat 604 days ago

I don’t know about you, but when someone says “green” to me, I think of fields of flowers, rainforests filled with happy animals, and clean,babbling brooks. Maybe that’s just me. I certainly don’t think of dirty diapers. The fact of the matter is, though, that there are companies out there making good use of waste…. Read More…

Jennifer Lance in Food & Drink 612 days ago

Salvaging thousands of used disposable chopsticks from the Koriyama’s city hall cafeteria over two years, Shuhei Ogawara has built a 4-meter (13-ft) long canoe.  It took three months for Ogawara to glue 7,382 chopsticks together to form the canoe shell. Via:  Pink Tentacle

Adam Williams in Fun / Offbeat 614 days ago

ExtremeCraft.com has a contest going but, as they say in the infomercials:Time is limited! Act now! From the Web site: We are seeking submissions for 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse, an upcoming book by Garth Johnson of ExtremeCraft.com, which will feature 21st Century craft and design, all made with recycled, upcycled, repurposed and reused items…. Read More…

Jennifer Lance in Food & Drink 630 days ago

Want to smell like a greasy fast food hamburger?  You’re in luck!  Burger King is offering for a limited time Flame, “the scent of seduction with a hint of flame-broiled meat”.  This is the perfect gift for the vegan on your Christmas list! Via: The Guardian

Adam Williams in Action & Activism 655 days ago

The story goes that in recent years, Jeff Clapp has made eco-art that helps preserve the sanctity of Mt. Everest’s natural beauty, and extends the value of a particular bit of Himalayan adventurers’ waste: oxygen canisters. Clapp has collected a number of the tanks that once littered Everest, and has crafted them into bells, bowls… Read More…

Adam Williams in Fun / Offbeat 660 days ago

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/PlY-TNsbcMI&hl=en&fs=1] This is one of the most succinct illustrations of the story of Earth’s recent life, as endured with a case of Humans. It even leaves the door open for sequels, as we all wait to see where humans go next — Mars? — and what they do there. Oh, the suspense.

Susan Kraemer in Autos 665 days ago

A cute adaptation of the fuel efficient little Smartfortwo Greenstumbler found on display at SEMA2008 in Nevada. 20,000 Smartfortwos have sold here in the U.S, without wings. They already slow the evildoers who would end the planetary habitat of our species, just to scrape up the last few trillions off of our petrodollars. So they… Read More…

Susan Kraemer in Fun / Offbeat 667 days ago

We know that 76 Nobel Laureates endorsed Obama. So much for Big Science. But what about little science? Very teeny? Elections do have consequences for every interested party in science, from the greatest Nobel Laureates to the humblest specks of nano stuff. Looks like they went heavily Obama, too. And no wonder, with the war… Read More…

Jeff McIntire-Strasburg in Fun / Offbeat 684 days ago

From lubricants to condoms to things that go “bzzzz,” Planet Green has the lowdown…

Shirley Siluk Gregory in Climate Change 685 days ago

Climate change might be putting Australia in the throes of a long and devastating (and probably permanent) drought, but the “d” word is making farm families feel bad, government officials have decided. Their recommendation: use the word “dryness” instead. That’s right: it’s the word “drought” that’s so disturbing and not, say, oh, the acre upon… Read More…

Jennifer Lance in Fun / Offbeat 694 days ago

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/3PKnet1pbNo&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&fs=1] I’ve done my share of dumpster diving in my youth. Some of the booty I collected was donuts, a large area rug, and a vintage Singer sewing machine.  I no longer look in dumpsters for freebies, but Americans discard a lot of useful items. These wasteful habits are not good for the enviroment and… Read More…

Gavin Hudson in Fun / Offbeat 703 days ago

David Letterman once thought climate change was for “treehuggers” and “kooks.” In this clip from a September episode, the Late Night show host introduces Thomas L Friedman’s new book Hot, Flat, Crowded with an emphatic reversal of this opinion. Despite Letterman’s trademark cynicism, there’s a lot of optimism here. Letterman mentions alternative energy and the… Read More…