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This video, taken at this year’s GEL (Good Experience Live) Conference, features a pretty funny speaker named Graham Hill. Hill was asked to give a 20 minute talk about climate change this year and managed to do so in a very engaging way — I watched the entire 20 minute video with absolutely no problems understanding what he was on about, which is more than I can say about a lot of climate change/enviro science videos. This one’s in plain english!

He points out some interesting things — like, what’s the use of creating a product that can be recycled, but not creating the facilities needed to recycle that product? Hill also offers up a plan that could save you $1000, make you healthier, and lose 10 tons of carbon in just one day a week.

Check out Graham Hill’s climate change soloutions now. And if that tickles your fancy, check out the rest of the videos here.

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TreeHugger has just posted a funny article entitled “7 Funniest Moments in Green YouTube Video” and in the list is my all-time favourite commercial. I wanted to share it with you here because it really sets itself apart from other Green commercials. I won’t ruin the plot by explaining it to you — watch it to know what I mean, heh.

Runners up for best green YouTube videos go to:

• Get clean coal clean! (made better by the fact that it was directed by the Coen brothers)
• Human Virus (I love this one — the voice over really makes it.)

This was just too cute and funny not to post.

Travelocity (from whom I get regular emails that I usually have to dig out of my spam folder – grr!) are using these EcoBunnies to spread the word about the effects of carbon emissions on the environment and encourage people to offset those emissions whenever they can.

Check out the video — I love the voice acting. I’ve always been a fan of taking fuzzy and adorable cartoon characters and giving them non-cartoon voices. And hey, you might just learn something too.

Want more? There’s also this one — all about becoming an EcoBunny yourself: “Bring it!”

The title might fool you (I enjoyed the funny title too much to edit it) but no, I’m not talking about giving birth to an baby that’s easy on the earth’s atmosphere, heh.

I have so many friends that are having babies these days and it got me thinking… about other people having babies On that note, this caught my eye!

In this video Dr. Alan Greene has tips to raise a healthy baby in an environmentally friendly environment. He’ll give advice on topics ranging from what to eat while you’re pregnant to how to make your nursery green.

This recipe comes to BambiGoesGreen via @Brian_STEY from his site Save The Earth Ya’ll. The recipe itself can be found inRobert K. Henderson’s book “The Neighborhood Forager.”

I haven’t tried these yet myself, but I’m making plans as we speak to make up a batch of these tonight! I’m terrified… and curious!

The following excerpt from @Brian_STEY’s site was too funny not to quote directly and far too informative to leave out:

Please step away from the pump-action trigger on that bottle of weed killer. Hey, what are you doing with a bottle of toxic weed killer anyway? Don’t you know that stuff does more harm than good? Instead of looking at those dandelions as noxious weeds that must be poisoned, pulled, or otherwise decimated, experience a paradigm shift and appreciate the dandelion for the delicious, medicinal puffs of sunshine they really are. Yes, you read that correctly—Delicious!

Up until very recently, dandelions sat on a pedestal. Instead of being dead-set on their annihilation (like most of us are today), people actually cultivated them for food, medicine, beverage ingredients and dietary supplements.

Luckily all those things that made dandelions so great in the past still exist today, and there is a movement sweeping the globe once again touting dandelions for their beneficial qualities. Dandelions are chockfull with vitamins, potassium, minerals and antioxidants. In fact, they are one of the most nutrient-rich greens you can eat. Much better than anything you’d find in the supermarket today. They also have many medicinal qualities and have been used as a blood detoxifier (great for the liver) and for treating digestive disorders, arthritis and eczema.

So what part of the dandelion is edible? The entire plant… roots, stems, leaves and blossoms (not sure I’d eat the puffy white seed heads after they flower, though). The best time for harvesting dandelions greens for eating is in the early spring before the plants begin to flower. After the plant flowers it gets bitter, but a simple blanching will take care of that. The leaves have a great spicy taste kind of like arugula and can be eaten as a salad or put on sandwiches instead of lettuce. They can also be sautéed or steamed like any other green.

The blossoms are best harvested in the morning just as they open. They, too, are great on salads, but being southern, we love them FRIED! You can also make a great wine out of the blossoms. Some people say it is like sippin’ sunshine!

Please note: DO NOT eat dandelions that come from chemically treated yards, or ones that are growing close to the road.

RECIPE: Fried Dandelion Blossoms

Heh. Okay, so maybe this isn’t helpful in my quest to go green. But it’s funny, right? It’s pretty funny. It was too cute for me not to post. And they’ve got some really… interesting ideas for recycling, conserving energy, and avoiding zombies.

WARNING: Some may find this offensive. Just because I don’t, doesn’t mean you won’t. Can’t say you weren’t warned!