From Bottle to Bikini
22 Feb 2008
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Cork tease
Attention oenophiles: Korks 4 Kids wants your cork. Big corks, little corks -- size doesn't matter. Your cork will go places you never imagined, until you get that all-over warm feeling that you get from ... helping children. Why, what were you thinking?
On our soapbox
A Brit film fest asking for quickies on the topic "Overheated" might expect submissions like steamy shower scenes or global-warming debates. But us? We'll be sending shots of us debating global warming while in the shower. Just like every day at the office.
Photo: iStockphoto
Photo: iStockphoto
Mother nature
Eco-moms the world over are in a frenzy to make each other feel bad for not being as organic, local, and fair-trade as the next gal. But we're pretty sure no one will out-local this family.
Backstage driver
The greenest car on the road today? The Honda Symphony: It requires neither gas nor electricity and emits only melodic harmonies. Plus, it's got a rockin' stereo system.
Photo: Carmusicproject.com
Clothes encounters of the sustainable kind
This season, up-to-date fashion plates will go wild for animal prints (rowr), talk trash about Nike's new shoe, and tie on an itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny green palm-leaf-print bikini. Or for the brave, there's always the dissolvable dress -- just don't get caught in the rain.
Seen something weird, wacky, or wonderful in the environmental world? Think it deserves a place on The List?
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