It Is Ok

To leave the lime in the bottle.

Temple Of Bottles

Temple of bottles, originally uploaded by cschildt.

Buddhist monks in Thailand built a temple out of beer bottles.

Buddhist monks from Thailand's Sisaket province took matters into their own hands and collected a million bottles to build the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple. It puts every other bottle building we have shown to shame.

Even the washrooms and the crematorium are built of bottles, a mix of green Heineken and brown local Chang beer.

Amazing more pictures at the link and below. Also, Heineken at one point made beer bottles to be used as building blocks. That is pretty cool. I bet if one of the west coast micro breweries were to do that it would take off in the progressive slash hippie community.

Democratic Convention Goes Green

Or as green as can be. In addition to normal recycling the vehicles used will have beer based bio fuels.

Then there's transportation: General Motors will be providing a fleet of hybrid and flex-fuel vehicles, Coors is donating ethanol made with thousands of gallons of its beer waste and bus idling will be kept to a minimum.

Pollution is also being controlled through the use of wind and solar energy and efficient lighting, computers and appliances.

To top it all off, the party's "Director of Greening" hired an outside firm to calculate the convention's carbon footprint so it can be offset with carbon credits.

All and all not bad. Flying 50,000 people all over the country is not really green.