Green Girlfriend

Your girlfriend can get green, I mean jealous green, at anything remotely associated with any woman in the world. However there might be times when you want actually a 'green' partner....here are few suggestions and questions to evaluate the green index of your girl friend.

• Is she concerned about recycling? (she is definitely green)
• How many times a paper towel in the kitchen is used before being tossed to the trash? (any answer greater than or equal to 2 means she is green)
• Does she proactively showers with you? (you can save about 15-20% of your water consumption depending on how much you spend in shower)
• Does she prefer in using the Microwave instead of the conventional oven? (M/W saves more energy compared to conventional oven if you are just reheating stuff)
• Does she prefer using organic detergents over more popular ones? (this one can be tricky as people sometimes develop preferences subconsciously)

Please come out with more creative suggestions.

Project Better Place

Project Better Place. It seems that Israel got it right this time (and this is not about the Gaza strip)! This company will make Israel completely gasoline independant in next 10-12 years. And how will they do it? electric cars...why cannot the US congress have a look into this company?

Start with may be small cities as pilot projects and then move key cities completely of the gasoline map...can you think of NYC with a near zero carbon footprint? Instead of offshore drilling with trillions of borrowed dollars and polluting the environment, why don't spend some money on pilot projects and make this happen?
Why doesn't Obama or McCain speak about this?
Click on the following links for more details
http://www.projectbetterplace.com/
http://shaiagassi.typepad.com/the_long_tailpipe/2008/06/the-better-stor.html