In a desperate trying to educate people to respect de environment, here you have a cool campaign produced by Global Environment Centre for Kuala Lumpur. Continuare…
Financial markets have tanked worldwide, those of us who still have jobs are waiting to lose them, the British Auto Show was cancelled, and Gisele got married. 2009 has been a rough year so far. It’s all enough to get one dreaming of a fresh start and what better way to get one than to start a new life in a new city? Continuare…
Financial markets have tanked worldwide, those of us who still have jobs are waiting to lose them, the British Auto Show was cancelled, and Gisele got married. 2009 has been a rough year so far. It’s all enough to get one dreaming of a fresh start and what better way to get one than to start a new life in a new city? Continuare…
… Things like this could happen. Weatherman wears (having 20 years in television) a green tie in front of green screen; see what’s going on and enjoy!
Why is Envy a Green Monster? Color associations vary greatly from culture to culture, just as each language or dialect has unique colloquialisms that are often misunderstood or lost in translation. In many Western cultures the feelings of envy or jealousy are commonly associated with the color green. However, in German the feeling is most closely related to the color yellow, as the phrase “gelb vor neid,” or “yellow with envy” suggests. Moreover, in Arabic the same association is made, as noted in the common phrase “yasfaru wajhahu mina al-Heqd” or “his face turns yellow with envy.” Continuare…
Although Saint Patrick’s Day has the color green as its theme, one little known fact is that blue was once the color associated with this day. The original color of St. Patrick’s Day was not green, but blue. It wasn’t until the 19th century that green became Ireland’s national color and eventually the color of St. Patrick’s Day because of its association with the shamrock, springtime and the Emerald Isle. Continuare…
The 1954 15-page supplement to the 1948 Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) included 47 revisions and a brief description of each. The 1954 manual represented the shift from using mainly regulatory and warning signs on interstate highways to including guide signs. This manual also adopted the use of white letters on green background for Interstate highways. Continuare…
Mars Company has been producing M&M Chocolate Candies since 1941. Various rumors have since been attached to different colors of the candy: the green ones are an aphrodisiac; if the last candy out of a bag is red, make a wish and it will come true; if the last candy out of a bag is yellow, you should call in sick and stay home; orange M&Ms are good luck, but brown ones are bad luck. M&M/MARS notes that consumers, not the company, developed all these rumors. Continuare…
We don’t care that this was for a photo shoot. Biking is after all, what made Lance Armstrong famous. And if you’re thinking of biking yourself, learn how to choose the right kind of bike at PlanetGreen. Credit: Amy Leibovitz for Vanity Fair Continuare…
