The GreenFly Exposes: Green Hypocrites! Do You Know Any?

On today’s episode of “Whaaaa?!?!”, we introduce GREEN; NOT GREEN!

Let’s begin, shall we?

Green!

Not Green.

Green!

Not Green.

Green!

Not Green.

That last one may come as a surprise to some of you. After all, do a search on “organic bamboo clothing” and you only get a bazillion results from websites touting their “all natural” products. Before you shell out fifty bucks for that so-called eco-friendly pair of bamboo tube socks, learn the truth about bamboo at Veggie Revolution. And I quote:

” . . . rendering bamboo from a plant to a yarn is a chemical process, the same process for conventional rayon. It’s highly polluting, involving hydrogen disulfide emissions. Rayon and bamboo are ‘regenerated cellulose’ fibers and are man-made. Most marketing touts bamboo as a natural fiber. That’s true for bamboo hardwood floors but not for textiles.”

So where can you buy real green/eco-friendly/organic products?

Well, you can buy organic cotton shirts from Green Fly Shop of course, but the owners of our site have recently launched another website, New Terra Living where you can buy all kinds of green stuff, from Dr. Bronner products to yoga skorts.

Leafygreen.info is another good site that gives “Green Product Reviews for a Green World.”

Know of any other green hypocrites? We’d love to hear about them so we can put the worst one up for Maggot of the Month!

P.S. Don’t forget that the deadline to make suggestions to one of the biggest sheisters of them all, TVA, is August 15th. If you haven’t done that yet, get on it!

The Fly

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The Way to Music Stardom: An Electric Car? Maybe. The Bus? Oh, Yeah Baby!

A recent article in The Tennessean claims that 5,000 Nissan plug-in electric vehicles are expected to hit the market in the fall of 2010. The Electric Transportation Engineering Corp. has a deal with Nissan to provide private and public charging stations in Knoxville, Chattanooga and Nashville, Tn, San Diego, Ca., Seattle,Wa., Phoenix and Tucson, Az., and the Oregon cities of Eugene, Corvallis, Salem and Portland.

For those states that don’t rely mostly on coal for power, this might be an eco-friendly move. Unfortunately, coal is the source of 63.3% of Tennessee’s electric energy. (30.2% is nuclear power.)

Tenn. governer Phil Bredesen has high hopes for the electric cars. A quote from the Tennessean article:

“For Tennessee, investing in electric vehicle technology is not only about doing the right thing for the environment . . . It’s also about creating jobs and strengthening our economy.”

Creating jobs? Sure. Strengthening the economy? Maybe. Doing the right thing for the environment? Hmmm. What about rolling out a new line of biodiesel cars?

What are your thoughts on electric vehicles?

The good news is that folks in Nashville who are looking to save money AND help the environment can ride the bus – and maybe even get an autograph from the driver while they’re at it! That’s right. Nashville’s own Jack White (The Raconteurs, White Stripes and Dead Weather) is “making rockstars out of MTA” (metro transit authority.) Jack White’s label, Third Man Records, is releasing a single by the group “Transit”, whose members are all Nashville MTA employees. Third Man started taking orders for the single on August 5th. You can buy the single and plenty of other cool stuff on their website: http://www.thirdmanrecords.com/store.html

Also, you might recall my previous post where I urged you guys to send in ideas to TVA for alternative energy sources in Tennessee. The deadline is August 15th, so if you haven’t done so already, get on that!  http://www.tva.gov/environment/reports/irp/

The Fly

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It’s Better Than Bad – It’s Good!

Who says the GreenFly doesn’t enjoy a guffaw or two!  Turn off your TV’s and check out our new YouTube channel! http://www.youtube.com/theflyATgreenflyshop

Hilarious videos including: “How We Can Make the War in Iraq More Eco-Friendly”, “Spiders on Drugs” and “F*ck the Earth Day”.  Share them with your Hummer-driving neighbors! Once they start laughing, you can sucker punch ‘em for NOT recycling! Makes me think of our great shirt “I’m Green I Will Kick Your Ass”! Mmmm, good ole’ quality time.

Inspired to make a video of your own? Send it to us at thefly@greenflyshop.com

We love to laugh as much as the next fly. Send us links to your favorite green videos if you got ’em.

The Fly

P.S. We’ve also got some informative videos on the TVA Coal Ash Environmental Disaster including: “TVA lies about cleanup in Kingston from ash sludge distaste”and “Erin Brokovich on the TVA ash spill”!

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Deals and Dirt: What Happens to Our Garbage?

Ahem. On July 4th we’ll be having a 25% off sale on all of our shirts. Just use your greedy little paws to enter the discount code 1776. You’re welcome.

Now for the real dirt.

You might want to sit down.

I recently decided to ask people if they knew what happened to their garbage after it got tossed in the trash can. My quest began with my 42 year old neighbor, who claimed that the Garbage Fairy was responsible for cleaning up after us. She managed to explain this idea to me between swigs of Long Island Iced Tea.

“The magical Garbage Fairy is kin to (hic) the Recycling Fairy, you know? She arrives on garbage day in her enchanted garbage truck once a week and empties my trash cans. Then she totes my old plastic bags and egg cartons off to her (hic) secret lair. Who knows where she hides her treasures or what crazy uses she has for them? I once left a note in my trash can with the suggestion that she use them to build a (hic) quieter vehicle, but the sly gal never answered. C’est la vie. In the end, she’s happy; I’m happy – it’s a beautiful relationship.”

Right. After I left her house I called my Dad to ask him the same thing and, let’s face it, to make fun of my neighbor.

“Isn’t that the most pathetic thing you’ve ever heard, Dad?”
“Hmmm?”
“Dad. You do know where your garbage goes after you’re done with it, right?”
“Oh yeah, yeah. In the trash can.”
“But after that. After it’s picked up.”
“. . . by the Garbage Fairy?”
“Are you fucking with me?”
“ (hic)”

That’s it.  I’d ask the rest of you in person but I’ve lost all hope in humanity. Redeem it, please.

The amount of things getting thrown away every day that could be recycled is insane. One of our fans obviously feels the same way, and has sent in a photo of herself wearing our “WTF? Recycle Already!” shirt.

Thanks for the love. Send in your own photos, videos or links that you want us to check out and we’ll reward you with a claim to fame right here.

Coming soon: More garbage and we give you dirt about inspiring people who are living green in unbelievably EXTREME ways.

Here’s to being trashy in the best way possible,
The Fly

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