From Betting to Böögg
20 Apr 2007
We'll see your catastrophe and raise you an apocalypse
Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets: An online gambling service is offering a whole new way to get screwed by climate change. Looking for better payoff? Put some greenbacks on the leatherbacks; we're all-in on Colburtle.
Photo: iStockphoto
Photo: iStockphoto
Every day is Earth Day -- especially Sunday
This April 22 has inspired a new face for Lancôme, a bunch of carbon-neutral Yahoo!s, and a program to RadioShack up with battery recycling. Join in the celebration with free concerts in NYC, SF, and Chicago. It's good to be green.
Duck, duck, choose
Portugal's W'Duck restaurant is flush with creative ideas: Old toilet seats serve as makeshift chairs while TP'll wipe any mess left by your organic Mediterranean dish. W'Delectable! But at a different Duck, listening to the sounds of our seafood might just quack us up.
Photo: W'Duck
The fizzy corn syrup side of life
Coca-Cola HQ would like to buy the hippies a Coke. And at the happiest place on earth, someday a biodiesel train will come. Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the greenwashiest of them all?
Böögg-yah!
Forget Phil -- how did we miss the weather-calculating Swiss? 'Twill be a moderate summer, according to the Böögg (!), a gigantic snowman that is set afire and explodes on Sechseläuten. After the parade of the Zünfte. And you thought Punxsutawney was fun to say.
Photo: FMM
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