Best Green Costume Ideas

I went to a Halloween party on Thursday night and it turns out that environmentalism is beginning to provide some of us with costume ideas. For example, one of my friends was a melting polar ice cap, complete with a dying polar bear. I decided to look this trend up to see if dressing green is hip this year. . .Here is what I found:

Global Warming:
1. Dress up as a giant earth and put red, painted flames all over your costume.
2. "Dress in your favorite beachwear—bikini, speedos, nude, whatever. Don a giant sun hat and shades. Slather on lots of conspicuously scented tanning lotion. Then arrange for everyone at the party to totally ignore you until the very last minute." (idea from PopMatters blog, located at:http://www.popmatters.com/pm/columns/article/49914/last-minute-halloween-costume-ideas/)

The polar bear with bright orange floaties on:


Sadly, these were the only creative ideas I could find after scouring the net. So here are a few of my own.

1. Be a penguin. As the movie industry as discovered recently, who among us can resist a penguin? Dress it up by having little floaties on your wings, or rosy cheeks, or wear a large sombrero for protection against the sun.

2. Be a polar bear and attach a small, round piece of Styrofoam around your midsection as a shrinking ice berg.

3. Be carbon dioxide. Dress up in a grubby, smoky way and look generally malicious. You can even have a friend be oil, and one by coal, and so forth. Or, on the flip side, you guys could dress up as renewable energy sources.

4. Go as a group and all be different effects of global warming. Someone can be rising sea level (dress in blue, have little houses and stuff stuck on you), some one can be a really intense storm (crazy hair, ripped, spun around clothing, ect), someone can be drought (yellow, black colors), ect.

5. The hole in the ozone layer. If you, like me, see Halloween as the opportunity, nay, the obligation to wear something a bit skanky. But the ozone hole. Dress up in soft, floating material and then have a gigantic hole somewhere. Like right over your midrift.

6. Be a GCM - a General Circulation Model, the type of computer program that scientists use to model global warming. Just dress up as a super model, but draw a chart of increasing temperature on your shirt, or dress or whatever. Pretty hot. ha, get it?

Okay, okay. My creativity has exhausted itself. But whatever you choose to be for Halloween. Have fun!