Car Rally Runs on Cooking Oil – Grease to Greece
Eight teams completed a 4,022.5km (2,500 mile) car rally, "Grease to Greece," from London to Athens. The event was aimed at promoting awareness of cheap environmentally-friendly bio-fuels. Londoner Andy Pag is the brains behind the idea. The eight teams were required to beg for oil from restaurants, motorway cafes and fast-food joints along the way. Or they could go to KFC ...
World’s First Solar-powered Ship by Nippon Yusen KK and Nippon Oil Corp
Nippon Yusen KK and Nippon Oil Corp are working on the world's first solar powered ship ... well, at least partially solar powered, they are saying. What? A hybrid ship? The two companies want to put solar panels on top of the 60,000-ton ship that are capable of generating 40 kilowatts of electricity each. The ship will carry Toyota cars. Is ...
Octopus Feeds Self from Jar
This story/pic so reminds me of a heartbreaking one I heard a while back. Rangers came upon a deer that was emaciated. When the little fellow finally died, they cut it open to find out what had happened. The deer had eaten a plastic bag and it blocked its food track. Somebody thinks it's cool that this 9-month old female octopus ...
Japanese Zoo Sees Birth of Giant Panda Cub by Artificial Insemination
A Giant Panda gave birth to a cub in Japan at the Oji Zoo. It was the first time in 20 years that a panda cub was successfully bred by artificial insemination. Two experts came from China's Sichuan province to help with the procedure. Apparently the sexy panda videos didn't work. The last panda bred by artificial insemination in Japan was ...
Eco-friendly Car Graffiti
When pimping your car, who in the world things about the environment. It's simple. It has to look better and drive faster. But then you have Scott Wade an experienced artist in love with dirty-rear-windows that will make an eco-friendly graffiti on your car's back. Check more images after the jump.
Global Cooling – Snow on Mt. Fuji
Mt. Fuji is tall enough to get snow pretty early on in the season. It's something like 3,776 meters. I know, I have been up it three times...despite the old proverb. "He who climbs Fuji once is wise, he who climbs it twice is a fool." What about three times? Anyway, it can get cold up there in late spring, early fall. But, ...
51 Cobras and Mambas in One Apartment
We like animals here at Greenpacks. But, I reckon if we had to draw a line, this might be where we do it. A Japanese knucklehead was found to have kept 51 snakes in his Tokyo apartment...cobras and mambas, oh, my! When he was feeding one of them, he got bitten so he called the police. "Let me think this through. ...
Rare Albino Southern Right Whale Calf (PICS)
[gallery] A rare albino southern right whale calf was spotted at West Australia's Finder's Bay. Makes sense to find the calf in Finder's Bay, eh? The calf is about 2 months old and has the name "Wilgi Ma Nung" which very unoriginally means "white whale" in the local Wardani Aboriginal language. I mean, why not call him/her "Spot?" Whale watchers say "Spot" ...
Sea Turtles Order In Italian
Perhaps the plight of these sea turtles is what is causing these other little fellows to be confused about their lot in life. Some 60 newly hatched sea turtles seemed to have gotten lost during their rite of passage ... their initial march to the sea. Instead of finding the big wet, they marched into an Italian restaurant ... ordered ...
Lion Cub and Puppy Playing Together
Can you imagine a fight between a dog and a lion? It's an unfair battle! But make that a beautiful puppy and a lion cub and you have a playground. It doesn't matter what's going to happen in years when the lion is going to be 10 times heavier than the dog, it's the fun they have today. It doesn't ...
