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Happy Friday everyone. As you know, Friday means it’s time for another segment of Dumb Green Ideas of the Week. This week we’re happy to include a mixture of being caught lying, eating Kangaroos, laziness and much, much more.

Dumb Green Idea: Eating Kangaroos

A study by the University of New South Wales discovered that cows and sheep fart too much. They fart so much in fact that they contribute 11% of Australia’s total emissions. So what’s the solution then?

Well according to the University of New South Wales it is to farm Kangaroos instead of cows and sheep. Has anyone tried Kangaroo meat?

Luckily we Australia only needs 175m Kangaroos to produce the same amount of meat as that currently harvested from rangelands. (Via CleanTechnica).

How Dumb? 4/10 – Well intentioned but unrealistic.

Dumb Green Idea: Activists become unstuck

I really can’t imagine how this idea came about. Did it happen over a late night camp fire? In a moment of euphoria did a protestor suddenly sit up and say "you know what everyone? Lets glue ourselves to stuff".

This past week several activists glued themselves to the revolving doors at the head office of coal mining company, BHP Billiton. This is the second glue-strike in a week, following dozens of protestors gluing themselves to doors  and windows at the Kingsnorth power station in Kent.

I do admire them, they certainly made the news. I just can’t help but thinking that they’re running a fine line between a serious peaceful protest, and a laughing stock.

How Dumb? 4/10 – Nice try, better options though.

Dumb Green Idea: Lazy dustbin men

This one also comes in from The Guardian. Anyone that lives in the UK knows that binmen have gotten stricter in recent times. If you miss putting your bin out in time, even by a matter of seconds, you’ll have to wait for another week. However, Gordon Morris, 70, was furious to find that binmen refused to collect his bin because it was parked 1 metre away from a busy kerb.

I know councils are eager to make budget cuts, but reducing the size of the work force and hoping to speed things up by making residents put their bins out on the pavement was only ever going to lead to these problems.

How Dumb? 7/10 – Would that extra metre really much such an effort?

Dumb Green Idea: Shell lies, and gets caught

Shell took a hammering from the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) after claiming it’s $10bn oil sands project in Alberta was a sustainable energy source. The advert, spotted in the Financial Times, irritated the WWF who lodged a complaint with the ASA. After reviewing the rather blatant facts, the ASA ruled that Shell were not only greenwashing, but that their Alberta project released three times the standard amount of CO2. (Via The Guardian).

But the WWF didn’t stop there. They decided to make their own advert.

How Dumb? 8/10 – Surely they knew someone would spot the advert?