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It’s Friday again, thanks heavens. That means it must be time for another roundup of this weeks dumbest green ideas. So without delay…

Dumb Green Idea: Solar-powered neck-tie

This got a lot of attention thos week, mainly because it’s an incredibly dumb green idea. No doubt it’ll spread amongst the celebs needing the green cred. It’s a Solar Powered neckie. It’s ambitious, but extremely foolhardy. First, ties are going out of fashion these days. Second, it looks awful. Really, really, awful. The artists impressions don’t help at all. Third, do people really spend much time in the sun?

Ah, yes, and there is a jacket.

Why not a solar powered umbrella?

How Dumb? 6/10

Dumb Green Idea: Gwyneth Paltrow Stars in Fur Ad

Gwyneth Paltrow has been commended by environmentalists of late. She’s encouraged supports to eat an organic vegetarian diet and recently hosted a charity benefit to save horses from slaughter. So it’s extraordinary that her agent would let her star in an ads for fur-lined boots and bags. PETA elegantly stated "Paltrow’s beauty is only skin deep".

Not to mention reports on Sprig that she refused to mingle with the common folk at her horse-slaughter fundraiser.

How Dumb? 7/10

Dumb Green Idea: PETA to buy Sea World?

That’s right. Shamu and co might soon be set free into the big bad ocean. Where, apparently, they’ll last about five seconds before wondering where the guy with the bucket of fish has gone, or why that big toothy creature is starting to swim mighty close.

PETA apparently wants to buy Sea World and setup a virtual reality theme park on the site, release some of the animals and put the rest in a marine life centre.

Ambitious, certainly. Dumb, most definitely. The animals at the Sea World resort are entirely reliant upon humans and they offer visitors a rare chance to admire brilliant creatures. In comparison with zoos in Beijing and India, the conditions for the animals are far better.

How Dumb? 8/10 – Some things just aren’t meant to be.

Dumb Green Idea: Bush’s Stealth Attack on Endangered Species

Talk about sneaky, at the moment when half the country is on vacation and the other half are watching the Olympics, George Bush is try to sneak through some legislation that will prevent biologists from the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National Marine Fisheries Service from advising federal agencies evaluating projects that could impact endangered species.

Those that would make the decisions, if this act is passed, would be agencies including the forest Service, the Minerals Management Service and the Department of Transportation. Mostly for projects in which approval would benefit them (e.g. timber allotments and mining roads).

Luckily the Press Association spotted it, and others got wind. Obama has pledged to nullify the act.

How Dumb? 7/10 – Surely they knew someone would spot the advert?