The Fun Times Guide to Living Green

By Jeffrey on Oct 2, 10:59 AM | Unpublish this post | 0 | 0 Comments

Captive Animals Are Giving Zoo And Aquarium Goers An Eye Full

I'm not a very big fan of zoo's or aquariums....and neither are the animals that have been captured and live there.

You know what? The animals are finally acting out about their distaste for being on display in captivity:

Polar bear: "You people destroy my homeland, take me away from it, and now want to gawk at me all day long....well take a look at this..."

Read on for more crazy (and gross) videos of the animal union taking a stand against being on display.

Continue reading: Funny Animal Videos

By Jeffrey on Oct 1, 6:53 AM | Unpublish this post | 0 | 0 Comments

The Flora Filled Face Mask...Because The Swine Flu Is No Match for Mother Nature

Run! Hide! Give in to the mass hysteria...it's SWINE FLU! (but dont' worry about that regular old flu, it just kills 60 times more people than the h1n1 flu).

That's right, MNN.com relays some figures from the CDC that to date (as of yesterday), the swine flu has caused the death of 593 Americans and hospitalized another 9,000...yet the regular seasonal influenza usually hospitalizes 200,000 Americans and kills another 36,000.

As a matter of fact, 93% of readers who participated in TreeHugger's swine flu poll said they thought the pandemic headlines were an overreaction.

Fortunately, if you do get caught up in the swine flu hysteria, we have the best natural way to safe guard yourself against all of those swine flu carrier monkeys walking around out there. It comes via our friends at Inhabitat, and is Bio-Accessories' flora-filled face mask...because those plain, white, medical looking ones are soooooo last flu season. Hit up Inhabitat to learn more about the half wearable art, half statement-maker designs by Bio-Accessories.

By Jeffrey on Sep 30, 1:13 PM | Unpublish this post | 0 | 0 Comments

One Glee Star Is A Serious Greenie...Can You Guess Who?

Are you a Gleek (Glee geek, obviously....duh) yet?

Well one of Fox's new hit show, Glee, is going green in a serious way. Read on to find out who and how.

Continue reading: Glee Goes Green

By Jeffrey on Sep 29, 8:47 PM | Unpublish this post | 0 | 1 Comment

Upcycle a Shipping Pallet Into An Awesome Shoe Rack

Upcycling is SO much more fun than recycling. Upcycling is taking something that has outlived its intended usefulness and gets converted into something even more awesome.

One of our favorite things to upcycle here at The Fun Times Guide to Living Green are shipping pallets!

Israeli designers, Junk+Ion, are absolute masters at upcycling shipping pallets and other everyday items into wonderfully useful pieces of art and furniture, like the DIY shoe rack you see here.

So what else can you do with shipping pallets?

Continue reading: DIY Shoe Rack

By Jeffrey on Sep 25, 1:42 PM | Unpublish this post | 0 | 0 Comments

I'm On a Bike Motha F#*&%er...

It's tough to top the awesomeness of The Lonely Island's infamous music video of "I'm On A Boat", but 5 girls with mad rhymes who decided to spoof the spoof and release, "I'm On A Bike", comes really close!

Read on to see BOTH hilarious videos!

Continue reading: Funny 'On A Bike' Video

By Jeffrey on Sep 24, 2:04 PM | Unpublish this post | 0 | 1 Comment

Ridiculously Cheap and Easy DIY LED Lanterns For Your Porch

Now that fall is officially here, it's time to get out and enjoy your outdoor living spaces again.

What better way to spruce up that patio, porch, or deck then by adding some awesome eco-friendly lighting?

Too bad that it can set you back a very large chunk of change.

There are SO many options for outdoor eco-friendly lighting, but it always seems like there's a trade-off to make.

Isn't there a DIY solution that gets you everything you want out of awesome outdoor lighting and doesn't brank the bank!

How does a $2 paper shoji lantern with LED lights sound?

Continue reading: Cheap, Easy, LED Lanterns

By Jeffrey on Sep 22, 7:42 AM | Unpublish this post | 0 | 3 Comments

Pervy Yoga Instructor FAIL

So apparently all you have to do if you want to be able to cop a cheap feel and get away with it all day long is become a yoga instructor.

Yikes.

What do you call this pose? Inverted lotus fondle?

Maybe these yoga chics should try Star Wars yoga from now on...then they can come back and go all Jedi on this yoga instructor's pervy ass.

Brought to you via the FailBlog.

By Jeffrey on Sep 21, 12:42 PM | Unpublish this post | 0 | 0 Comments

The Only Tears Shed Over This Rain Barrel Are Because It's Not Available Yet

Newsflash: Rainwater doesn't contain chlorine...so why would you give your plants water that does?

Oh I see, you think those plastic 55 gallon drum-like rain barrels are ugly. Hey, I can't blame you there (even though you can build a rain barrel for a mere $10).

Well even if some of the more aesthetically pleasing ways of building a rain barrel still fail to tickle your fancy, I'm SURE that this one will...

Read on to find out more about it.

Continue reading: Watering Can Rain Barrel

By Jeffrey on Sep 18, 1:15 PM | Unpublish this post | 0 | 3 Comments

Wicked...Going Green. For Good.

Who cares about, "What would Jesus do?". Try asking yourself, "What would Elphaba do?".

Oh you don't know Elphie? Sure you do, you just may know her by another name..."The Wicked Witch of the West".

Ring a bell now?

Well if you haven't been to see the musical, Wicked, hop on your broom and fly as fast as you can to the nearest city it's playing in. Not only is this Broadway show utterly amazing, but the color green runs deeper than just Elphaba's skin.

Wicked has gone: "Green. For Good."

Read on to find out just how so...and to watch the best bootlegged "Defying Gravity" video.

Continue reading: Wicked Going Green. For Good.

By Jeffrey on Sep 16, 2:48 PM | Unpublish this post | 0 | 0 Comments

Water Wasting FAIL!

Letting your automatic sprinkler system run in the middle of a monsoon is a BIG water wasting FAIL!

This is a picture I snapped this morning in which a local apartment complex was cluelessly letting their automatic sprinkler system run on the 2nd day of a forecasted week long wash-out here in middle Tennessee...and it has been coming down in buckets!

The Irrigation Association says,

"Did you know that more than 50% of the water used by households goes to maintaining landscapes and lawns? You can help reduce your outdoor water use, keep your landscape more attractive and healthy—and save money every month on your water bill—by upgrading your landscape sprinkler system with a “smart” controller."

Very simply put, smart controllers utilize soil moisture sensors to automatically adjust your watering needs to the environmental conditions. Bada-bing, bada-boom.

So if you employ an automatic sprinkler system to maintain your landscape, upgrade to a smart controller and very possibly qualify for a $375 rebate.

Consider that your quick green tip o' the day...