A Green Halloween

by WiredBerries Editors — October 22, 2007

Want to get a laugh while spreading the word about organic living? Suite 101.com offers suggestions for 10 simple, environmentally oriented costumes for Halloween parties or trick-or-treating. Highlights:

• Willie Nelson--All you need is a long, gray wig wrapped into a single braid, a cowboy hat or bandana on your head, some old jeans and a fake gray beard and, voila, you're everybody's favorite progressive country musician-slash-biofuel advocate.
• Al Gore--This one's even easier ... and guarantees lively party conversations with your conservative friends: all you need is a sharp, dark suit (add a bit of extra body padding underneath), white shirt, dark tie and a copy of "An Inconvenient Truth" tucked under your arm, and you're set.
• Compact fluorescent light bulb--Start your costume by donning a tight, white turtleneck and slim white pants or tights. Then inflate a dozen or so long, white balloons, tie them end to end, and wrap them around you from chest to hips for that unique, spiral-bound light bulb look.
• Tree hugger--Cut an extra pair of arm holes below the sleeves of an old sweatshirt or t-shirt, and stick your arms through those. Stuff the shirt's sleeves with rags, newspaper or socks, pin the ends together in front of you, then tuck a small, fake tree inside the false arms.

The site suggestions going even greener by using old or recycled clothing, fabrics, and other materials for your eco-fab costume.