The PETA girls are at it again, stripping down naked, well half-naked, to protest bullfights. Somebody has to do it, right? Why not the girls? And, it all depends on which half is naked, huh?

Activists for the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) taped on banderillas, a decorated barbed dart, and lay in front of the European Parliament in Brussels to protest EU tax payers money used for organized bullfights in Spain.

The fellows from the Parliament could be seen rushing out to interview all the girls to be sure that they got the right impression the PETA girls wanted to make.

I eat meat, girls. Would you like to assemble outside my house and protest?

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Three Japanese physicists theorized on the origin of the universe so loudly that they received a Nobel Prize in Physics for their guesses. Call me stupid, but a theory is nothing more than a best guess.

The three physicists are Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago’s Enrico Fermi Institute; Makoto Kobayashi at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture; and Toshihide Maskawa, professor emeritus at Kyoto University’s Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics.

They all guessed that “elementary particles such as quarks, which had no mass at the time of the universe’s birth, came to have mass.” Never mind that this is against the most basic scientific laws that you can’t get nothing from nothing.

“Particles and antiparticles were present in the same numbers at the moment the universe emerged.” Never mind again that they theoretically cancel each other out. The guessers gave up on that theory.

So, what’s this have to do with anything? My take is that if the world came from nothing, it’s headed to nothing. What’s the big deal? Let’s get what we can get while we are here. But, if the world is a gift from, shall we say a Creator, then we have been entrusted with a treasure and it requires our best efforts to be good stewards.

Physicists like these three men do nothing to promote care for our planet.

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Good for you, Madrid. Everyone in the city was required to park their cars for the day and get to work, school, shopping or otherwise by some other means. In Central Madrid the idea was to promote a green lifestyle.

Dads with babies, dads pulling babies, dads pulling babies while doing business or checking in with mom on their cell phones, dads pulling babies with their recumbents, and, um, okay, where are the moms in these pictures?

What GP wants to know is why doesn’t Madrid and Paris and Berlin and Beijing and Tokyo, and Moscow (too cold?) and New York City and and all the major cities and minor ones, too, have car-free days? If it can be done once, why can’t it be done regularly? Huh? Huh?

Nice try, Madrid. But, what I want to know, is what will tomorrow be like?

Those of us who love our planet and think there is nothing that shouldn’t be done to care for and be good stewards of Earth might want to reconsider that thought after viewing these pics. There was a fashion show in Budapest where the models wore creations made of recycled materials. What the materials were is a mystery to me, almost as big a mystery as why would anybody be caught dead wearing them – old tires, used dryer hoses, toilet paper and brooms.

I don’t get it. My wife worked as a fashion designer and even she cannot explain to me why long-legged girls in funny hats and outfits that might fly is properly propelled appeal to people. I reckon it’s the entertainment factor, no? If it’s fun to watch, then that’s good kind of mentality. Practical is definitely not in the equation. And, if no money is wasted and our home is not harmed, then let the girls play. No?

Cleanliness is next to godliness. A green world is a godly concept, too. In that regard, House Peters, Jr, Mr. Clean, did his part to make the world a better place for 92-years. He died yesterday.

At GreenPaks we want our world to not just be green, but also cleaner, healthier and a friendlier place for animals.

Peters was an actor, as well as a commercial star for Procter & Gamble. But, what he really taught us is that cleanliness is indeed a better way of life. That means ridding the world of pollution, too, no?

“A Touch of Pink” fashion show is happening in Toronto. Eight Canuck designers revealed their designs as part of “The White Cashmere Collection” and “Fashion with Compassion for a Future without Breast Cancer.”

GP picked up on this idea because we think making good use of recycled paper makes good sense. BUT!!! We don’t want this kind of paper recycled, do we? Recycled toilet paper would give new meaning to the “Hey, there’s a stain on your dress.” Okay, I agree, that’s nasty.

So, what happens to these girls when they get caught in the rain? Seriously, isn’t there a limit to what to do, what can be done with paper?

Would you wear something made out of toilet paper?

Can you imagine the conversation – “If you are not careful, I am going to TP you.”

“Oh, would you, please?”

In the name of conservation, of course.

Where’s my press pass and camera when I need it? Japanese celebrity, Aya Sugimoto, posed nude for Peta. Yum! What another reason for me to keep using fur. If other females like 40-year old (is she really 40?) will pose nude to stop me, I’m all for doing my part to get them to do their part.

I am not convinced that Sugimoto really gets it.

“When I think of those poor animals, it’s no big deal for me to be naked in an ad. A woman can be gorgeous without real fur.”

Yeah, she gets that part, she is gorgeous, but … when asked about leather products, she said she still continues to buy them because “leather production is different from fur production.”

I guess that means it’s okay to skin an animal but not just give them a haircut. Go figure. No matter, I just want more people like Sugimoto doing their part to stop the rest of the world from using fur. Would anyone get it if they’ll continue to do it?

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Would you have thought that these trees are meant to rotate?

For this year’s biennial arts festival in Liverpool, UK, the guys responsible for the Blur Building, Diller, Scofidio and Renfro, are going to introduce the visitors to their “Arbores Laetae” installation, also known as the Joyful Trees. Yes, these three trees in the middle of other 17 trees are the only ones moving confusing all those passing by.

I know the festival is all about the contemporan art and the weird, but I’ll have to be honest that I’d wish these guys would have come up with a motto or a slogan for their rotating trees, that would determine people to go home, buy a tree and put it in the ground for the many years to come.

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Niue (I had to look it up, too) will become the first country to launch the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative. The goal is to be the first country in the world for every child, all 6 of them?, to have a laptop. The population of the whole island is less than 1,700.

In truth, there are about 500 students in both Niue primary and high schools. The laptops are the students for life and are their library to the world said Jimmie Rodgers, the director general of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community.

The laptops cost about $200 and 5,000 of them have been ear marked for the Pacific. Education is a good thing. For a child to have access to the world’s information is a grand thing … until they ask, “What’s McDonald’s?” And want to know other such things Western as might spoil their paradise in the south Pacific.

Of course, education is not just having access to info but being able to discern which info is credible and relevant to the learner. No?

Not sure if Michael Phelps is vegan, loves animals or if he recycles, but I’ll have to be honest he really managed to amaze all of us after breaking seven world records and one Olympic record in just one week. He did it, in part, because of his amazing dolphin kick.

I’m no guru in making the world a better place but there’s obviously something we can learn from Michael ‘Dolphin’ Phelps and his hard work.

1. More sports for kids. What if they bring swimming activities to children, too? Call it an anti-obesity program or a way of spending quality time as a kid, I’m sure it would be a great idea.

2. Hard work and determination. Even though the guy was “built” like a fish with a long torso and relatively short legs, thereby decreasing resistance, he also had to train. And he trained hard not for the last weeks, months, but years. Five or six hours a day, almost everyday Michael Phelps was in a swimming pool trying to improve his times.

3. Focus and never give up. I was amazed to hear that he had his goggles filled with water in one race. Not a pro-swimmer here, but I do know you’re somehow blind when something like this happens. What he did? Focused even more. It was another obstacle he had to go over. He counted the number of strokes per length to know where he was and reached his goal.

4. Can he power our cars? GreenDaily has a couple of great ideas for Phelps to “serve his country”. I’d sure put him the head of all clean energy companies. With his determination we’d most likely get a world record on sustainable energy.

Again, I’m not sure of the reasons why this should go well on GreenPacks but such a guy should inspire many.

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