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Women’s Fashion + Recycled Car Parts = ?
Posted by Green Gal on December 5th, 2011
We’re always on the lookout for the latest trends in fashion. Who doesn’t want to have the latest looks in their wardrobe, right now?!
Thanks to the gloomy financial crisis, recycling our old clothes might just be the ultimate fashion trend of 2011.
But, if you’re sick of rummaging through your wardrobe, you may want to try [...]
Tow Truck Driver Gets a Physics Lesson
Posted by Green Gal on November 2nd, 2011
How does energy transference really work?
Car Blows in the Wind
Posted by Green Gal on April 1st, 2011
No April Fools joke here, a car powered primarily by wind and kites has made it across a vast swathe of Australia, enduring searing heat and freezing cold along the way — and all for roughly $10 Australian.
The more than 5,000 km (3,100 mile) journey of the “Wind Explorer” was the first [...]
Time to Junk that Car
Posted by Green Gal on February 4th, 2011
When your car looks like this it is time to search for a junk car dealer in your area!
Share a Drink with your Fishy
Posted by Green Gal on September 21st, 2010
Great idea for water conservation and pretty cute but I still don’t want to drink filtered fish water.
As you use water from the tap to wash your hands (you always remember to wash your hands, right?) the water in the fish’s bowl goes down, reminding you not to be wasteful, lest the [...]
Car with No Driver Ready for Testing
Posted by Green Gal on August 1st, 2010
Sort of like the headless horseman where a team of Italian engineers on Tuesday launched what has been billed as the longest-ever test drive of driverless vehicles: an 8,000-mile, three-month road trip from Italy to China, not in search of silk, but to test the limits of future automotive technology.
Two bright orange [...]
Learning Recycling in Richmond
Posted by Green Gal on July 5th, 2010
Men wearing T-shirts and jeans quietly went about their work at Bluegrass Regional Recycling Corp. on a recent sunny afternoon.
Inside the processing plant, just past a cardboard box full of tiny, plastic pieces from shredded milk jugs, four guys pulled the wrapping off black rubber gloves that Marines use to [...]
The Onion Asks Mother Nature to Chip in on Going Green!
Posted by Green Gal on May 12th, 2010
This one over at theonion.com is a real hit with us green lean’in folks!
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency called a press conference Monday to publicly denounce the environment for blatantly refusing to pull its weight in mankind’s ongoing efforts at ecological conservation.
“For 40 years, we have worked tirelessly to ensure the health and safety of [...]
April Fools Jokes of the Past
Posted by Green Gal on April 1st, 2010
Personalized Tires (2003) Dunlop Tires announced the availability of a new product: personalized tire treads: “‘For hundreds of years people have been monogramming their clothes, and there’s certainly no shortage of personalized license plates, so why shouldn’t they be able to add a personal touch to their tires too?’ said Ian McIntosh, General Manager of [...]
