Weekly green web: shiny crops and crematoriums

It's Friday: time to slow down a bit and do a bit of surfing. There's plenty of green stuff out there on the web to compete with the best time-wasting games, videos and sites (aah, dancing hamsters - remember those?). There are also the bizarre stories that have me shaking my head in wonder and disbelief, those plans to save the planet that you know will never work. Or maybe they just might...

This is the start of a (hopefully) weekly blog* to publicise the best of the weird and wonderful stuff that clutters up our inboxes. We're open to suggestions, so drop us a line.

(* although we reserve the right to skip a week if we're pushed for time.)

• Green Thing appeared a few months ago to set monthly green challenges. I'm waiting for February's thing to do (it's only the 1st, so I'll be patient) but January was all about taking the stairs, not the lift.
• A few weeks ago (we have a backlog of these), someone clever so-and-so suggested using shiny crops to reflect the sun's energy back into space.
• Around the same time, crematoriums were accused of not being energy efficient.
• And finally, should animals do more for animal rights? Like the lady says, "I don't like those hermit crabs."